Goodbye fluorescent bulbs, welcome LEDs

Goodbye fluorescent bulbs, welcome LEDs

Amsterdam: 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 on 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. 
    It’s a combination that will inevitably help the LED dominate the market for illuminating the world’s workplaces, according to the global leader in lighting sales. 
    In an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the unveiling of the new light, a top executive said the prototype LED is headed to mass production and will hit the market in 2015. 
    Heclaimedthatin10years, LEDs will replace at least half of the world’s fluorescent bulbs, which have been the main source of workplace lighting since shortly after World War II. AP

(TOI 12 8 2012)

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