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The Louvre Lights Up With LEDs
Although it’s expected that old buildings will be drafty, creaky, and firmly tied to the fossil fuel grid, many of the world’s most famous historical buildings are recreating themselves with the help of green technology.
The Light Bulb, Squared: Illumitex Reveals New LED (Video)
A startup out of Austin, Texas, has devised a square LED bulb that it claims will both cut the cost and improve the quantity and quality of light coming from solid state lamps and ceiling fixtures.
Futuristic Dice House Achieves Zero-Emissions
Creating such a design in time could be a gamble, but one British company isn’t afraid to roll the dice.
Superconductive Cable: More Energy with Less Waste
They used over 7600 km of this superconductive cable in the LHC, weighing about 1200 tons. The total length of the filaments used if layed end to end would stretch “5 times to the sun and back with enough left over for a few trips to the moon.”
GE Abandons Incandescent Bulbs
The incandescent light bulbs days are numbered. First they were vilified in the media for their gross inefficiency, then the price of their more efficient rival CFLs came down to make them a cost effective alternative, then countries started talking about banning them all together, finally the biggest champion of bulb that started it all, [...]
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