Sunday, June 14, 2009
Brighter incandescent bulbs could be on the way
Interestingly enough, I believe our government has mandated the phasing out of incandescent bulbs.
(to save energy, of course)...
(to save energy, of course)...
At DailtTech.com, Jason Mick reports:
"New approach offers more pleasant light of traditional bulbs without the energy guilt.
Thanks to a bit of ingenuity, Chunlei Guo, associate professor of optics at the University of Rochester, and his assistant Anatoliy Vorobyev have been able to squeeze out fluorescent-like energy performance from an incandescent light bulb. The breakthrough boils down to a laser treatment of the bulb's tungsten filament, a processing step which could one day become a standard in the light bulb industry."
