From Gas Light to LEDs…That’s a Jump!
Those crazy Germans.
Rather than using fossil fuels to create electricity and use the electricity to create light, the town of Dusseldorf has for many years, skipped that unneeded step and burned the gas directly in lamps to create light. I don’t know exactly how much light gas lamps can produce, but that’s probably a lot of extra carbon being pumped into the air.
The municipal power utility is trying out a new plan to replace all their gas lamps with LED lights. Of the 17,000 gas lamps in the city, about 10,000 will be replaced with LED spotlights.
So far only two dozen have been replaced as a test and people are already unhappy saying the light is rather cold (did you see the pun?). Ulrich Kuiper, who developed the lamps says that he will use warmer LED colors (there’s the pun again) for future lamps. My question would be “How all those Germans will be able to light their cigars at night when they forget their lighter?” But I guess eventually LEDs will be hot enough to do that too. Just kidding. LED’s don’t get that hot.
[Via The Economist]
Posted September 9, 2008 - Filed In Eternal Leds, LED News
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