Sunday, August 03, 2008

Building a Better Light Bulb

I just read about an interesting new technology for light bulbs, being developed by a company out of Seattle.

Vu1 has developed a new technology called ESL - Electron Stimulated Luminescence. Essentially, they are claiming to have developed a light bulb that has all the qualities I care about as a consumer.

  • Perfect light quality
  • Instant-on
  • Fully dimmable
  • As efficient as CFLs, if not better
  • No Mercury
  • The same cost as current dimmable CFLs

I can't wait to get my hands on one to try it out. I recently tried one of the dimmable CFLs in my office, only to be sorely disappointed because it only was able to dim about 10%... still leaving me with 90% of the light. Hopefully, these new bulbs will be just what I need for spotlight replacements.

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