<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5afcd484-e60a-4bff-a3f0-c13ddd5b8d8f/266D21A1-9D58-405A-8F78-DC4963D58962/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-fast-can-leds-replace-fluorescent-light/1556/" href="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-fast-can-leds-replace-fluorescent-light/1556/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smartplanet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-fast-can-leds-replace-fluorescent-light/1556/"><H1>How fast can LEDs replace fluorescent light?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-fast-can-leds-replace-fluorescent-light/1556/"><P>LEDs claim to last 10 times longer than conventional bulbs and <A href="https://www.zbulbs.com/">save 80% of their energy costs</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-fast-can-leds-replace-fluorescent-light/1556/"><P>Early this year Purdue scientists demonstrated a breakthrough, making LEDs on metal-coated silicon wafers, <A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/led-lights-technology-breakthrough-purdue-university.php">dramatically cutting manufacturing costs</A>. This follows by two years another breakthrough in North Carolina that <A href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/eco-friendly/led-efficient-lighting-461128">dramatically increased the light output</A> of LEDs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-fast-can-leds-replace-fluorescent-light/1556/"><P>About <A href="http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ask/electricity_faqs.asp#electricity_lighting">14% of all the electricity generated in the U.S. </A>is used for lighting. That’s about 526 billion kilowatt hours. Lighting Science says that if we replaced just one common bulb in our homes with one of their LEDs we could save <A href="http://sev.prnewswire.com/electronic-components/20090922/NY8017122092009-1.html">9.6 billion kilowatt hours. </A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-fast-can-leds-replace-fluorescent-light/1556/"><P>A drop in the bucket compared to <A href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/figes1.html">total U.S. electrical consumption</A>, but you won’t have to change the LEDs very often, either. So add a savings to your knees.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/266D21A1-9D58-405A-8F78-DC4963D58962/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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