The 22.8-year switch: GE's Energy Smart LED
December 20, 2010 By Matt Hickman
As the common household incandescent bulb marches towards extinction (they'll be completely phased out in the U.S. by 2014), the "battle of the bulb" heats up with CFLs, LEDs, and a new long-lasting contender, the ESL bulb, vying to take its place and usher in a new era of energy-efficient lighting.
GE just announced the release of the Energy Smart LED, a new omni-directional, 9-watt bulb designed to replace the common 40-watt incandescent bulb used in bedside and table lamps. According to GE, the life of the Energy Smart LED is 25,000 hours or 22.8 years (based on three hour/day usage) and offers a 77 percent energy savings when compared to 40-watt incandescent bulbs. It's also the first A-Line LED bulb to receive an EnergyStar rating.
The price? Brace yourself: The Energy Smart LED sells for $50. It's admittedly a daunting price to pay for a single light bulb that will live (and perhaps outlive) your bedside lamp, but when you do the math (which GE has thankfully done for us: www.gelighting.com/na/energysmartLED/math.html) the dramatic cost becomes easier to swallow. With an estimated yearly cost of $1.08 versus $4.82 for a 40-watt incandescent (based on $.11 per kilowatt hour), a single Energy Smart LED can save homeowners $85 over the lifetime over the bulb.
Learn more about this innovative 40-watt substitute over at GE's Energy Smart LED mini-site, http://www.gelight … ED/home.html , where you can also purchase the bulb now. Or, wait until January when the Energy Smart LED hits retail shelves.
(c) 2010, Mother Nature Network.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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Don't make the LED an economic argument. If you use florescent, you will save $35 over the lifetime of the light due to the ridiculous initial cost of the LED.
until LEDs are reasonably priced and designed, it is only an environmental argument, due to the mercury in florescents.
Dec 20, 2010
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No thank you. I will keep my $1 incandescent bulbs.
Dec 20, 2010
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and I will keep my cfl's. I love led lights (Especially flashlights), but I think we've both made the point that they're not ready for primetime, and that there is no valid economic argument for them in current form as lightbulb replacements.
Dec 20, 2010
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Sell them to the Prius drivers.
Dec 21, 2010
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I made the mistake of buying an 'early' LED lamp to fit over stairs where a slow-in-the-cold CFL might trigger epilepsy. A couple of months later, the bulb died at switch-on. Sorry, no replacement nor refund, as unable to prove fair usage...
Perhaps now they're going main-stream, the warranty issue may change...
Dec 24, 2010
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Every bulb inside my house is CFL except the ones over the bathroom mirrors and over the kitchen work area, and I love them.