The LED lighting market is on verge of exploding. Everything “Green” is getting tremendous publicity at this time and LED lighting is certainly a technology that embraces Green practices.
LED lighting offers improved Green attributes in the following manner over traditional lighting solutions.
1) LED lighting is recyclable and uses no Mercury
2) LED lighting is incredibly energy efficient consuming only 20 – 30 per cent of the energy of traditional lighting for comparable lumination. Because of this efficiency very little heat is emmitted from LED lights
3) LED lighting has Dark Sky advantages. Because LED lighting is focused with little diffusion, it significantly reduces the amount of night sky illumination
4) LED lighting does not attract insects – I learned this one today. Many insects are actually attracted by the heat traditional lighting emits, since LED lights run so cool it does not attract insects.
5) LED lighting typically lasts for 50,000 hours. At 12 hours per day this is over 10 years of life. Maintenance and light replacements are far reduced as well as the environmental impact of the Maintenance requirements.
The technology of LED lighting is relatively new but it is rapidly becoming accepted and implementations are accelerating rapidly as users seek to make their businesses more Green and Energy efficient.
