With recent breakthroughs, the first economic LED bulbs should be hitting stores this summer (so they say). They're more efficient even than fluorescent, so as soon as prices fall they'll be ubiquitous.
On 4/12/07, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
New Jersey was one of the first states to encourage its residents to switch from incandescent to fluorescent lighting by giving away fluorescent bulbs, then offering additional ones below cost. Any indication that New Jersey or other states will have incentives to switch to LEDs? $35 at C. Crane is prohibitive for a light bulb--I see they have one on sale for $15. I've been working on LED lights for outdoors, using small solar panels with rechargeable batteries. They're fairly easy to make, especially since they're being used for viral graffiti and instructions are online. I haven't seen instructions for making wired LED lights for indoors yet, but expect to see that soon in Make Magazine.
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