GE Wants YOU to Use LED Lights
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Lighting as we know it is about to change dramatically, and GE is leading the way.
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By Geri Parlin, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 17--Candlelight home tours, jolly old elves and the jingle of bells are on my mind.
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Device features an OLED display, which the company says is better than an LCD.
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Not only does he have 17,000 holiday lights on his Lafayette, Colo., house, he&#39;s rigged up an interactive Web site to let virtual visitors turn the lights off and on with the click of a mouse.
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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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In a change of position, European light  bulb makers like Philips and Osram are lobbying governments to  promote low-energy light bulbs over traditional incandescent  bulbs.
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The light bulb Thomas Edison invented 125 years ago is getting more than a make-over. The government is pulling the plug on it.
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A Californian politician is aiming to bring in a law banning the sale of traditional light bulbs.
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European light-bulb makers said Tuesday they want to phase out the standard incandescent light bulb in eight years, replacing it with more eco-friendly, energy-efficient lamps.
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On Saturday evening, it's "Lights out San Francisco," where people will voluntary turn off lights for an hour. The aim is to raise awareness of light pollution and the energy wasted by lights left on.            Presented By     From Dell? Home!      &nbsp;&nbsp;The new Dell? Inspiron? 1520 notebook with hi-def widescreen and long-range wireless for only $799. Add mobile broadband for $150. Limited time offer. Click here. www.dell.com    Ads by Pheedo
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Consumer electronics aren't exactly easy on the environment Â they consume electricity that contributes to global warming, and toxins leach out of them when they end up in landfills.
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One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way. The incandescent light bulb, perfected for mass use by Thomas A. Edison in the late 19th century, is being supplanted by fluorescent lighting that is more efficient and longer lasting.
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Going green in a penny pinching world Column Lights don't turn themselves on.â¦
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Lamina Ceramics plans to introduce a light-emitting diode array with heat-reduction technology that allows it to be as bright as a theatrical light without a meltdown.
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Consumers are being urged to implement more energy saving moves in the fight against global warming.
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By Palenik, Charles John  Question: My office has had a series of "DISCUSSIONS" concerning placement of heat indicators on instrument bags. We need a third party to help m do the light thing.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) is stressing incentives over regulations to improve the energy efficiency of datacenters. The DOE's office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) gathered the top technology companies in Silicon Valley Wednesday to promote collaboration on strategies to improve overall energy efficiency.Â Datacenter energy issuesÂ are a growing concern for businesses and users as computers get more powerful, and the cost of running them and keeping them cool continues to increase. Technology vendors represented at the forum, including rival chip makers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, along with server vendors such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, andÂ Sun Microsystems, have each been developing more energy-efficient products. But they and the DOE representatives acknowledged that datacenter energy usage needs to be addressed holistically. The DOE can be a resource to the industry, not a regulator requiring datacenters to meet energy efficiency goals, said Andy Karsner, head of the EERE program. "I donât know that right now thereâs a dramatic need for a regulatory move, particularly when you have the leaders of the industryâ¦coming here with a sense of purpose,â said Karsner. Industry representatives said they work independently on improving the energy efficiency of individual products but that the federal government could provide tax credits, other financial incentives, or other resources to enhance overall energy efficiency. "AMD and Intel keep doing their best to improve the performance [of processors], but the CPU is only half the story.â said Kris Singh, director of strategic platform technology programs at AMD, which hosted the daylong energy conference at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Because this was the first meeting of what the DOE called a "tech industry working group," no specific recommendations were made and the schedule for future work remained open. The DOE can fund research that individual product makers can't fund to look at how different components could work better together, said David Rodgers, acting deputy assistant secretary of EERE. "A hardware company might improve theÂ energy efficiency of a blade serverÂ and another company might improve the energy efficiency of a transformer to convert AC to DC. Right now very few people are doing research on how to integrate those two together," said Rodgers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsors theÂ Energy Star programÂ rating the energy efficiency of home appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners and some commercial equipment. But some participants in the working group are skeptical that a comparable program could be applied to datacenters. âIâm not sure about that," said Roger Schmidt, chief thermal architect at IBM. Because datacenters are much more complex with components from different manufacturers, it'd be hard to develop one Energy Star rating everyone would agree upon. "What if [the rating] is bad, what do you do? Who are you going to point the finger to?â Schmidt asked.