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By rba
01/03/2006 02:46:52 PM EST

From the CSMonitor via the UN Foundation's UN Wire:

Low-cost lamps brighten the future of rural India

KHADAKWADI, INDIA - Until just three months ago, life in this humble village without electricity would come to a grinding halt after sunset. . .That all changed with the installation of low-cost, energy-efficient lamps that are powered entirely by the sun.

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The innovative lights were installed by the Grameen Surya Bijli Foundation (GSBF). . .The lamps use LEDs - light emitting diodes - that are four times more efficient than an incandescent bulb. After a $55 installation cost, solar energy lights the lamp free of charge.

Properly configured a LED lamp has an approximately 100,000 hour life (it's a semiconductor), and runs on low-voltages (1.8 - 3.6 VDC).  

Coming soon to your house.


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i've been wanting to get LED bulbs for my place for some time now. they wouldn't be that hard to manufacture, and you could even put them in something that looked like an ordinary bulb.

and yet american companies don't seem to be doing it.  where's that invisible hand when you need it?

kind of interesting too, that india will soon have better lightbulbs than we do.  of course a hundred years ago i guess we had better lightbulbs than the great powers in europe...

by zeke L on 01/05/2006 10:54:10 PM EST

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