Does it shorten the life span of the LED? "A candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long." Harry
On 2/12/2007 12:33 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > "Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous > failure." > > --- Dr. Henry Morton, President of the Stevens Institute of Technology > > ...Said in 1880 about the Edison light bulb. Echoed by many vorticians > (more recently) wrt its (the incandescent light bulb's) likely > replacement and successor. > > CAVEAT: I am assuming that there is a significant energy anomaly > in the SEC lighting circuit of Dr. Ron Stiffler, but admittedly there is > no firm proof yet. In the month since this advance was first reported, > there have been a number of improvements which seemed to indicate that a > self-powering circuit would soon emerge from one of several small labs > which are tinkering with it, but 'soon' was a bit optimistic. > > It usually is, according to Murphy ;-) > > The possibility that any electrical circuit could be overunity turned > many normally receptive thinkers in the field of alternative energy into > skeptics, which is too bad- since "lighting" itself is such a big part > of net energy consumption. > > The SEC anomaly concerns the amount of visible light produced, relative > to DC electrical input. This anomaly may, or may not, involve a > violation of the LoT, because - and this is surprising to most people - > even the normal light output of LEDs is NOT as efficient as is often > assumed. However, LEDs are efficient enough, so that a 10-1 advantage is > proved, then it would most likely be overunity. > > Therefore, even without OU - the ultimate value to consumers of > electricity, of this circuit - whne implemented to replace over time, > the incandescent bulb and even fluorescent lighting, is absolutely > incredible. ><snip>
