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GE Ends Development of Incandescent Bulbs, Focuses on LEDs

Jerry James Stone — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:55:33 +0000

According to Clean Break, General Electric has dumped all plans for revitalizing their century-old incandescent lightbulb. Instead, it plans to focus on light-emitting diodes (LED) and its organic counterpart — the OLED.

Greenpeace Releases Tenth Guide to Greener Electronics

Ariel Schwartz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:09:05 +0000

It’s time once again for the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, and the results are sobering. Despite plentiful attempts at greenwashing, most electronics companies are not making the changes necessary to significantly cut carbon emissions.

Phillips Unveils Solar/Wind Hybrid Streetlights in Moscow

Sam Aola Ooko — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:07:05 +0000

An intelligent LED street lighting system that stays dim when humans are not around but increases its luminosity when it senses people walking nearby has been unveiled.

Philips, promotes the innovative street lighting concept as an ecological street light pole. The pole adapts its shape to capture the maximum source energy from sun and wind during daytime, using this energy during the night for illumination.

Depending on weather conditions, it can alternate between solar and wind modes.

Employing ‘flower mechanics’, the Light Blossom opens its petals to collect solar energy on sunny days and reorients them upwards to harness wind energy on cloudy days which, in turn, powers the lighting pole at night.

Philips gives away 50.000 CFLs in Greece

Stefanos Kofopoulos — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:05:50 +0000

In a collaborative effort for public environmental awareness, electronics giant Philips and news station SKAI are giving away 50.000 compact fluorescent lamps in Greece. When compared to incandescent lamps of the same luminous flux, CFLs use less energy and have a longer rated life, saving thousands of tons of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

On January 26th, Philips and SKAI representatives will be giving away CLFs in the city of Athens, Piraeus, Marousi, Thessaloni and Ptolemaida. A week after, on February 2nd free CLFs will be given away in the city of Ag. Paraskevi, Koridallos, Kallithea, Ilioupoli, Patra and Aliveri.

The momentum of the effort is so great that the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs decided to mimic the initiative and suggested [.doc] the nation wide replacement of all incandescent lamps found in schools with CLFs. Feedback from the general public is also positive but some people are concerned about the mercury in CFLs.

Disclaimer: I work for SKAI Radio 100,3