EcoLEDs Announces Brightest Commercial LED Light Bulb Yet

Energy Daily ^ | May 23, 2007 | Staff Writers

[Ben Mugged]

Eco-friendly lighting company EcoLEDs.com has launched the brightest LED light bulb ever made available to consumers in the United States. Using just 10 watts and a single LED component made in the USA, the LED light uses just 1/10th the electricity of an incandescent light bulb and reduces CO2 emissions by 9,070 pounds over its life.

The EcoLEDs 10-watt LED light is available now. Incandescent light bulbs are now being globally recognized as extremely inefficient and outdated. Australia has already banned the energy-hungry light bulbs, and California is considering a state-wide ban. In time, all modern nations will ban incandescent lights due to their extreme inefficiency: they waste 95% of the electricity they consume as excess heat.

The mainstream push is towards compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), but consumers are not being told that CFLs contain toxic mercury. There's enough mercury in a single CFL to contaminate 7,000 gallons of fresh water, and if Americans continue to purchase CFLs -- then throw them away in local landfills -- the United States will soon be facing an unprecedented burden of toxic mercury in rivers, streams, croplands and oceans.

[BurbankKarl]

There are still streets in City of LA that arent paved or lit.

[Cicero]

The sources says it’s a clean, white light. That could mean a lot of things, unfortunately. Has anyone tried this? Is it really white, or does it turn all the colors in the room blue or green or some sickly color, like a cheap flourescent bulb?

[stevio]

I agree the time is not here yet for total home use, but I’ve been replacing bulb flashlights with LED ones when I find them on sale. We got LED Christmas lights this year too, they look great, won’t lose their color and I noticed the difference in my electric bill.

[VOA]

There are still streets in City of LA that arent paved or lit.

Of course, but seeing the area after dark and from the area is
still pretty awesome...especially for us fly-over country folks.
(yeah, I lived there 1995-2005, but am now in another place
being overrun by illegal immigrants...Mid-Missouri.
Believe it...or not!)

[RightWhale]

These LED lamps make my teeth hurt. Perhaps it is the flicker, or perhaps it is the unnatural color.

[wbill]

I think that this is far, far more viable than the florescents. If, for no other reason than the color and intesity of the light can easily be changed.

So it's expensive now....so were CFL's, 5 years ago. The price will come down. This is a technology that I can get behind.

[FreedomForce]

How many thieves does it take to screw out a $100 light bulb?

[lepton]

Also note that this EcoLED product produces clean, bright “white” light, not the typical yellowish light produced by incandescent bulbs. Most people agree that our white lights offer far better visibility and clarity than common yellowish light bulbs

People like yellowish light for a reason. It's not perceived to be as "harsh". That said, LED lights annoying effects can be partially mitigated by being mixed with other lights.

Don't LEDs still flicker with the cycle too?

[P-40]

A lot of the ones I have been using are about 6000K. C Crane has one for sale that is warmer but I don’t know what its color temperature is exactly.

[Aquinasfan]

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp

Thanks. That's very helpful.

This seems like a problem to me, since I don't trust people to dispose of these bulbs properly. I assume that the majority will end up in the trash.

[Moonman62]

That’s quite a heat sink. It can’t be that efficient. Plus it looks like a spot.

[listenhillary]

A mid Missouri welcome.

[P-40]

but consumers are not being told that CFLs contain toxic mercury.

The ones I buy say so on the package. The newer bulbs have very little mercury anyway.

[Moonman62]

LEDs get dimmmer over their lifetime, especially if they are driven hard.

[Smokin' Joe]

LED’s have a lifetime of over 100,000 hours and they produce significantly less heat.

With the exception of a month or so of summer, heat is a bonus in our climate.

[HamiltonJay]

NOt that I know of, Florecents definately flicker.

[Aquinasfan]

This EcoLED light has a beam angle of 100 degrees, which is equivalent to a wide spotlight.

Couldn't this be remedied with some kind of reflective surface?

Also note that this EcoLED product produces clean, bright “white” light, not the typical yellowish light produced by incandescent bulbs.

Couldn't the light be covered with a yellow filter, for those people who want warm light?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Kyoto is a joke, thank God we somehow managed to dodge that bullet in the 90s.”

I suppose you could thank Al Gore. He presided over the 1997 Senate session that voted 95 to 0 against ratifying Kyoto. Ironic, eh?

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/22/92331.shtml

[r9etb]

Factor in what it costs to change light bulbs in some stairwells and emergency lighting units....and you don’t mind paying a lot for bulbs if they last for years and draw little juice.

As I said: I might consider replacing bulbs that I use a lot. But not the whole house.

[Aquinasfan]

Found this site selling LED household bulbs. They range in price from $15-$65, depending on the number of LEDs. There's no comparison given to ordinary bulbs. Can anyone make sense of this?