Bright idea? Australia pulls plug on light bulbs
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Australia has announced plans to ban traditional light bulbs in a move Prime Minister John Howard called a practical step toward slowing climate change.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.   In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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The switch to energy-saving light bulbs may put thousands at risk of painful skin reactions, health charities warn.
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Particles that capture infrared light could allow everyday objects to tap into an under-exploited source of energy.
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Change a light bulb and stop a war. Build smarter homes and keep the seas from rising.
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By Brian Nearing, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec. 11--ALBANY -- Who is going to pay for Reggie? That's a  quarter-billion dollar question with an answer that could cost anyone in the  state who flips on a light switch.
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Science & environment: Supermarket chain to give away energy-saving lightbulbs to customers who make green pledge.
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Environmental group Greenpeace asked India Wednesday to follow Australia and ban the common lightbulb to cut greenhouse gas emissions, fight climate change and conserve energy.
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Blog: D.light Design, started out of a Stanford student project, aims to bring a safer, cheaper form of energy to families living in emerging nations without access to electricity.
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There's money on the table if you take some energy-saving steps.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light at a cost competitive with power from coal or natural gas. The challenges are formidable.
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Even switching the light on for the toilet, staying up late, travelling across time zones, or the light from street lamps can stop enough melatonin being made, they say.
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Dan Flavin created haunting beauty and a towering reputation from fluorescent lights. So what happens when those increasingly precious bulbs start burning out?
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Most people in the United States only think about where electricity comes from when the lights unexpectedly go out.
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The bright lights of the new Jordan's Furniture mega-store on the Reading-Wakefield line is attracting more than customers. It's bringing in a stream of complaints from residents in both towns, who say the nighttime glare is intruding upon their lives.
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The electricity-wasting incandescent bulb would be banned and replaced by energy efficient compact fluorescents under a new bill