LED lights and let them be

God said let there be light and there was light everywhere, but thanks to Thomas Alva Edison, we have light during nights as well. For how long the same dull tungsten-filament bulbs. Thankfully, fluorescent tube lights came into existence and they are preferred to incandescent bulbs, and you still have to pay good amount for electricity your fluorescent bulb consumes.

Thanks to the innovations by lighting solution experts whose pursuit is to give us brighter light with little consumption of electricity. We are now using CFLs which are power efficient lighting solutions. We are paying much less as compared to fluorescent lights. What about the new light-emitting diodes or LED lights? These LED lights have been doing wonderful jobs in traffic signals and indicator lights of automobiles. But what if they are used as a lighting solution instead of CFLs? The LEDs could be fit in a bulb instead of filaments and gas and the resultant light will still be cool and takes in very little power.

However, the difference between LED lights and conventional incandescent bulbs is this: Light is produced after the filament is warmed. In the LED lights there is very little generation of heat and large percentage of electric power is used in producing only light (it implies the demand for electric power). Yes, the world is slowly switching on to the latest LED lights and it will pick up the pace once the technology to make brighter LEDs for domestic purposes picks up.

Philips Lumileds with their advanced Luxecon technology to use LEDs will soon be offering LED lighting solutions alternative to CFLs but with their brightness matching that of CFLs or conventional sources but with enviously low power consumption. With the price pf semiconductor devices coming down (as seen through the last decade or so), we should be able to use LED lights as best alternatives even in homes. Eventhough they could be more expensive than incandescent bulbs, they will be soon ruling our lights and will probably play bigger part than mere lighting alternatives.

A small comparative chart to say it all about LED lights:

Incandescent bulb CFL LED
Life 1500 hrs 10k hrs 60k hrs
Wattage 60 14 6
Bulbs for 60k hours use 40 6 1