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Not only does Going Green require us to change the way we think about the environment today, it also means implementing best practices for sustainability.

Sustainability is the protection and management of our resources to meet current needs without sacrificing the needs of future generations. At LEDCoolLights.com, we understand the ongoing concern for the future of our planet, and that is why we are dedicated to providing a greener alternative to the incandescent lighting that is used currently, commercially and residentially.

"If every home in the United States had LED Lighting installed, their would be an energy savings of 2 billion Kilowatt hours. Which is equal to 200,000 homes being powered for free for 1 year." source Department of Energy"

Department Of Energy

Next Generation Lighting Initiative. Section 1213 of S. 1766 establishes a Next Generation Lighting Initiative in the Department of Energy to “research, develop, and conduct demonstration activities on advanced solid-state lighting technologies based on white light emitting diodes.” The general objective of the provision is to develop, by 2011, advanced solid-state lighting technologies based on white light emitting diodes that are cost competitive with incandescent and fluorescent lighting technologies in addition to being longer lasting and more energy-efficient. The first specific objective is to develop an inorganic white light emitting diode that has an efficiency of 160 lumens per watt and a 10-year lifetime. The second objective is to develop an organic white light emitting diode with an efficiency of 100 lumens per watt with a 5-year lifetime that illuminates over a full color spectrum; covers large areas over flexible surfaces; and does not contain harmful pollutants typical of fluorescent lamps such as mercury.²³ Section 1213 authorizes $50 million in each Fiscal Year 2003 through 2011 for these activities, totaling $450 million over the period.

Solid-state lighting devices that use light emitting diode (LED) technology are currently used in many applications requiring colored light, such as exit signs, traffic signals, and vehicle brake lights. Recent technological breakthroughs have started to establish solid-state sources of white light; however, additional technology and cost breakthroughs must occur for the goals stated in S.1766 to be achievable. Currently, white LEDs are one third more efficient than incandescent lamps (about 20 lumens per watt compared to 15 lumens per watt) and last at least 10 times as long.²⁴ However, the cost of an LED-based light source is roughly $100 per thousand lumens of light compared to $0.33 per thousand lumens for incandescent lighting. The comparison to fluorescent lighting is even less favorable. Although first costs exceed those of incandescent lighting, standard fluorescent bulbs produce 80 lumens per watt and last 20,000 hours for under $1.00 per thousand lumens, putting the cost and efficiency goals of S.1766 at a severe disadvantage.^25,26

Analysts at Sandia National Laboratories and Agilent Technologies project that the penetration of LEDs into signaling applications will drive continued evolutionary improvements in performance and cost, leading white LEDs to reach an efficiency of 50 lumens per watt in 2010 with costs dropping by at least 10 percent per year to less than $50 per thousand lumens.^27,28 If these improvements are realized, LEDs could compete in some incandescent applications without an additional government R&D program, provided LED “lighting quality” also meets user expectations. However, evolutionary improvements will not meet the objectives of the legislative provision. Nothing short of revolutionary advances in both cost and efficiency would be required for solid state lighting to meet the specific goals of S. 1766 and be competitive in general fluorescent applications.

Solving technical problems related to the materials and processes used to manufacture the semiconductors that make up LEDs is crucial to reducing the cost of LED lamps. In addition, the efficiencies of the green and blue components of LEDs must be improved by factors of 5 to 10 and 2 to 3, respectively, in order to meet the S.1766 goals. Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) may be more amenable to inexpensive, large scale processing; however, efficiency, lifetime, brightness, and degradation problems must all be solved for OLEDs to be viable. As is typical for research and development programs, the timing and degree of success in solving these issues is highly uncertain. The competitive success of solid state lighting in general lighting applications and meeting the goals of the S.1766 provision depend not just on solving one particular technical problem, but on major technological breakthroughs affecting both the cost and performance of inorganic and organic white light emitting diodes.