LEDs
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Don’t tell Bachmann, but lightbulb standards were a Republican idea
Republicans have been whining about the Obama administration’s liberty-squashing decision to phase out inefficient incandescent bulbs in favor of CFLs, LEDs, and (surprise!) more efficient incandescent bulbs. But (double surprise!) the idea of requiring efficient lightbulbs sprang fully-formed from the head of a Republican, Michigan Rep. Fred Upton.
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Critical List: Wind turbines get bigger and better; tree-killing fungi are thriving
Wind turbines are becoming bigger, more efficient, and more powerful.
Drilling in the Arctic is not such a hot idea, as any spill will be tricky to clean up.
The Southeast is the only region in the country that hasn’t put renewable energy mandates in place. -
LEDs can double as data transmitters, save even more energy
Here is one more totally awesome reason that we should be switching out incandescents for LED lightbulbs: a new technology means a single LED can transmit more data than a cellular tower. Prof. Harald Haas demonstrates in this TEDGlobal talk:
The lightbulb is flickering on and off too fast for the human eye to detect.
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Shining a light on energy efficiency
Our inefficient, carbon-based energy economy threatens to irreversibly disrupt the Earth’s climate. Averting dangerous climate change and the resultant crop-shrinking heat waves, more-destructive storms, accelerated sea level rise, and waves of climate refugees means cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. The first key component of the Earth Policy Institute’s climate stabilization plan is to […]