PRI:LED lamp is a catalyst for scientific and technological progress

Recently, there have been articles reported that LED lights are likely to completely change the light we use, so that it can become a controllable, adjustable, intelligent and can spread the light source.

Two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RenssELaerPolytechnicInstitute) Professor predicted in a recent article, photonics and semiconductor lighting in innovation will bring trillions of dollars in cost savings, while the consumption of energy for lighting in residential and industrial and commercial enterprises will be reduced greatly.

"Alternative" Optics Letters beyond solid-state lighting published in December 22, 2008 showed that in addition to the LED light to bring the environmental and cost benefits, this technology is widely expected to progress, such as health care, transportation system, digital display and computer network in different regions.

Intelligent lighting potential applications including biological cell recognition fast, interactive way to promote plant growth and better support human physiological rhythm, in order to reduce the dependence of the individual of hypnotic drugs or to reduce the risk of developing certain cancers.

In the article, Schubert and Kim said that, in general, LED lights to save electricity is now 20 times the traditional light bulbs, is a green compact fluorescent lamp of 5 times.

If all the lights in the world were replaced with LED lights for a period of ten years, professors were expected to achieve the following benefits:

And total energy consumption will be reduced by 1929.84.

, electric power consumption per hour will reduce trillion watts.

And financial savings of $eight hundred and thirty billion and one hundred million.

Emissions will be - 106.8 tons of carbon dioxide reduction.

, reduce the consumption of nine hundred and sixty-two million barrels of crude oil.

- the number of plants worldwide needed to be reduced to 280.

In October, Rensselaer announced a new intelligent lighting research center, a partnership with Boston University and the University of New Mexico, and NSF one of the three Engineering Research Center project funded a $18 million 500 thousand prize for five years. The focus of these three major research centers is the development of new materials, equipment and technology and system applications, in order to promote the understanding of intelligent lighting technology and information dissemination.