Fluorescent Tube Lighting Becoming Obsolete

by Lurker Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:23 pm

If you've worked in an office, you're probably familiar with the soft glow of fluorescent tubes drifting from the ceiling. If Europe's Philips brand is right, those lamps could soon be history.
Royal Philips NV, the Dutch consumer appliances giant, said Thursday that it has developed an LED light that will soon be far more efficient than the best fluorescents on the market. That should make it cheaper and greener, as well.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/philips-targets-office-market-led-light-18929940

by DrSchool Thu May 16, 2013 4:26 am

My LED (iinno-led.com) are better than Philips. In my house I replaced all my florescent tubes with LED. My previous energy consumption for lighting was at 80W for my living room, 40W for my bedroom and 20W for my bathroom. Now after switching to LED I'm at 15W for my living room, 10W for my bedroom and 7W in my bathroom.

by DrSchool Mon May 27, 2013 2:43 pm

By the way, the link just goes to abc international

by Lurker Mon May 27, 2013 3:15 pm

Looks like ABC took the story down or moved it.

Here you go:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/philips-led-light-bulb-lightbulb_n_3060614.html

by DrSchool Tue May 28, 2013 6:10 am

Thx. 60 $ for a led hulb? Thats crazy. Plus it looks goofy. Fuck philips, they go around buying every patent having to do with led, even if it isn't related to their lights, just so they can control as much of the led market as possible and put smaller companis like mine out of business. They are bastards and so is GE. Plus the govt helps themboth out as well, which is unfair for us smaller businesses. So don't buy philips or GE products (unless you are a douche bag)

by Beekeeper Sat Dec 14, 2013 5:51 pm

:D

WHO needs Philip's or GE's technology these days anyway, when Asian countries are already leading the world in making these things more affordable, month by month...

EVEN when the leading brands bought out the current fluoro' bulbs, industry critics were stating that those were only a money-making "stop gap" measure for major companies, while they waited for LEDs to come down to a more affordable price point..

ABLY assisted by compliant governments banning the sales of old iridescent bulbs.

Philips sounds like they have joined the likes of G/E (a spinoff from the Edison Light Company ~ where Thomas Edison was supposed to have spent 90% of his business life buying up patents and fighting competitors in courts..), GM, Exxon, Deckers, James Hardie, along with most of the "big pharma'", agribusiness and mining corporations ~ companies that are famous for such legal shenanigans.. Evil or Very Mad

by Cantankerous Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:23 pm

Lurker wrote:
If you've worked in an office, you're probably familiar with the soft glow of fluorescent tubes drifting from the ceiling. If Europe's Philips brand is right, those lamps could soon be history.
Royal Philips NV, the Dutch consumer appliances giant, said Thursday that it has developed an LED light that will soon be far more efficient than the best fluorescents on the market. That should make it cheaper and greener, as well.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/philips-targets-office-market-led-light-18929940

not a fan of fluorescent lights myself so any change is for the good. Any change has to be better than the deadly green bulbs that have been promoted so far.
$60 for a light may well put some people off though

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