Quantum Windbag
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- May 9, 2010
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I have little doubt that LED lighting will be the wave of the future.
As the techology advances economies of scale come into play.
I'm informed that Princess lines just made a multimillion dollar purchase of LED lighting for their fleet, for example.
Expect that the first changes to LED lighting will happen at the industrial level, and as that market grows the economies of scale will insure that it will eventually migrate into the retail market.
Right now my favorite toy is an LED hand powered flashlight.
I HATE battery techology because typically when I need a flashlight my flashlights, which might have been sitting unused for years, have dead batteries.
With a couple turns of the flashlights handcrank I have plenty of light.
During Irene my power went out for a few hours but I continued to read (sans wasteful battery power) thanks to this LED flashlight.
I think LEDs are going to be great, in the future, but we do not live in the future. I remember being promised flying cars and jet packs by 1990 when I was in high school. That must have been a different future than the one I ended up in.
THey're great now.
No, they are OK now. Read flacaltenn's post to learn where the technology actually is right now, not where the PR idiots want you to believe it is.