2011年12月28日 星期三

Switch your lights & save

If you're using lights to decorate during the holiday season, make the switch to LED (light emitting diode) holiday lights. LEDs have been rapidly improving in quality and efficiency. They are now the norm in bicycle lights, many new flashlights, and holiday string lights. LEDs have a long life (30,000 to 50,000 hours), and, unlike CFLs and other fluorescents,Our original, revolutionary scannerstal that keeps you visible. they don't use mercury vapour.

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LED technology offers substantial energy savings potential. While some other LED lighting fixtures remain on the costly side, holiday lights are competitively priced with conventional light strings. LEDs also last up to 10 times longer than conventional bulbs and are more durable, with no filaments or glass bulbs to break.

COST SAVINGS

Decorating your home with LED lights could reduce holiday lighting energy use by up to 90 per cent. A typical 50-bulb incandescent strand of lights uses 250 watts and an equivalent 70-bulb LED strand uses only three watts. For a house that operates holiday lights for six hours a day through the month of December, with an energy price of 8.27 cents per kilowatt hour,A huge range of bluebright, front and rear bike lights, dry-cell battery and rechargeable solutions such as Halogen, six strands of incandescent holiday lights would cost over $23 to power versus a mere 28 cents for LEDs. By replacing the incandescent strands with LEDs, it would save you $22.79 in energy costs for the month.Buy MagicShine r4onsale from offical UK magicshine OFFICIAL stockist.

HEALTH & COMFORT

LED holiday lights are aesthetically similar to conventional holiday strings. Some people even prefer the brighter, focused light. More importantly, LEDs do not give off heat like conventional decorative bulbs, reducing the risk of fire.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

Consider reducing the importance of lights in your holiday decoration or eliminate decorative holiday lighting altogether. Interior spaces in particular can be made festive without the use of lights.With lightingbright pumping out incredible light with low power requirements and low weight, Decorations made of cloth that can be reused from year to year, or biodegradable decorations, are sustainable choices for making your space festive.These Bicygnals ledflashlight allow you to keep both hands on the bars while you signal for ...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Find bulbs that are ENERGY STAR certified. LED is the only technology that currently meets the ENERGY STAR specification for decorative light strings.

Do not connect LED strings to conventional strings. This is likely to wear out your LED bulbs more rapidly and could pose a fire or electrical hazard.

Some LED strings are rated for indoor and outdoor use, but some are only rated for use indoors. Check the package to be sure.

2011年12月27日 星期二

Longtime Niles board member resigns to promote street lamp switch

Bill Gallagher has, and he's so steadfast in his belief in its benefit he has stepped down from his seat on the Niles Utility Board to help ensure it shows up in the city's street lights.

Gallagher's resignation last week was far from a snap decision.The bestcflbulbs that we carry are designed to accomplish this. The 86-year-old has served on the board 32 years, apparently making him the longest-serving resident not entitled to compensation in Niles history.

He said Monday he opted to resign because his nephew, John Gallagher, works for American Green Technology, a Dowagiac-based company that offers induction lighting. Remaining on the board, Bill Gallagher said, might raise conflict-of-interest issues should the company, where John Gallagher is vice president of sales, submit a bid to provide the city with induction lighting.We are the innovators and engineers of some the highest quality LED bestcflbul, LED Flashlights,

The husband of Niles City Councilwoman Pat Gallagher, Bill Gallagher said he has no doubt induction lighting is the right way to go. The technology has been around for more than a century, he said, and is a far better option than the high-pressure sodium street lights that have dominated the city landscape since the 1980s.

"A magnetic induction bulb burns 100,000 hours, compared to 8,000 for high-pressure sodium, and it'll put out the same amount of lumens for half the kWh (kilowatt hours)," he said. "So for half the energy, it'll burn over 10 times as long."

In Niles, the savings would amount to some $134,000 a year in energy and maintenance costs, he said, pointing out induction lamps need to be replaced only once every 20 years compared to every two years for high-pressure sodium.Whether you want the complete package with very high end dual beam strobes, or basic bestledlig ... Already,Welcome to bicygnals online innovative bestledlightbu and torches. such cities as Paw Paw and Bremen have made the switch, he said.

Estimating the cost to purchase and install induction lamps at roughly $360,000, Gallagher said the money would likely be taken either from the little more than $2 million in city savings or the $1.9 million in Utility Department Electric Division reserves. He'd much prefer the former to the latter,This is MagicShine MJ-856 1600 lumen bestledlightt head light with Waterproof battery or MJ-828 Battery. he said, arguing the utility needs to retain as much reserves as possible should a tornado strike.

As for the reception he has received from city officials regarding induction lighting, its been generally positive, he said, yet the switch has been slow to evolve. The city's use of revenue from the Utilities Department has been a pet peeve of Gallagher for years but he agreed that's an issue best overlooked when considering what's best for the city.

Contacted Monday, J.W. Rossow, manager of the Niles Utilities Department, said he's not opposed to induction lighting but he wants to take a look also at LED (light emitting diodes) technology. To that end, a series of test lamps have been installed on a segment of a particular city street, he said.

"I want to see what works the best in cold weather," he said. "The problem with LED is the technology is changing so fast. I'd like to see this play out. They both have their uses."

As Bill Gallagher sees it, the issue has already been settled.

"LED is twice the cost, and the lights burn half the length of time" as induction lamps, he said. "I say that within three or four years, it'll (induction) go right across the country."

2011年12月26日 星期一

'Christmas light house' shines on

For four years now, the Russell family has turned the outside of their Pebble Creek home into a Christmas attraction that arguably rivals Santa's Wonderland.

"We're known in the neighborhood as the 'Christmas light house,'" said David Russell, the architect of the 18-minute synchronized light and music show. "Our daughter is in kindergarten now and all her classmates were so excited when they realized her house is the Christmas light house."

The display, which took an initial investment of $2,000, has grown over the years,They've been around for many many years but it wasn't until the late 1980's that there use was integrated into lighttsale. but Russell said the family doesn't notice an impact on their electricity bill, largely because they use LED lights that aren't constantly on but alternate in beat with the music.

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After it gets dark on most nights, he said, five or so cars will be lined up in front of the house, with radios tuned to 107.9-FM, to watch the show.

The songs that accompany the light show are played on that low-frequency station, which Russell operates using his home computer.

Their next-door neighbors on Congressional Court have a more modest display with a large sign that reads "Ditto" near the property line they share.

The last night for this year's show will be Jan. 1.

"As long as we're here we'll keep doing it," Russell said. "We just really love seeing the kids enjoy it and the honesty of the smiles people get when they watch."

Christmas Lights are not out of the ordinary during the Christmas season in many cities across the country, but one home in the Billings West End is getting attention from across the state.

For 6 years,For a great range of goodskylanterns, visit Bike Barn, we have the lights for you! homeowner Robert Malcolm has put on a light show at his home during Christmas time. The lights are controlled by a computer, which lays out patterns to match with Christmas music that is airing on KRPM-FM.

The theme this year is related to candycanes, according to Malcolm, but an underlying theme for the past few years is eco-friendliness, as most of the lights are LED (Light Emitting Diode) lights, which consumes less energy than conventional light bulbs.

"We figure probably 75% of our display's LED, and over the last 5 years, our monthly cost haven't gone up at all yet.I got to borrow a Solidlights divinglight2011 in return for writing a bit about it." said Malcolm.

The light show is drawing a crowd, some from as far away as Missoula. Meanwhile, Malcolm claims his neighbors have not complained about the lights.

2011年12月20日 星期二

Lights to the Nations

We're about to celebrate the Jewish festival of Chanukah – the festival of lights. So it will not surprise you that I have found dozens of bright, shining examples of recent news stories in which Israel is radiating light around the world.

Let's start in the sunlight. Israel Technion researchers have now found a new way to make low-cost solar cells by generating an electrical field inside quantum dots. The future of solar power will soon be energy-efficient nano-crystal solar cells, rather than the silicon-based cells currently used. Meanwhile, Israel is spearheading clean energy projects across the world.

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Israel's light will soon spread to one of our neighbours on the Mediterranean. Minister of National Infrastructures Dr. Uzi Landau announced that Israel and Cyprus were in advanced discussions about linking electricity grids in order to provide mutual backups in the event of a supply failure in either country.

And in another report about linking across water, Israel's oldest construction company Solel Boneh International Ltd. has won a contract to build a 2.1-kilometer bridge over Nigeria's Benue River and its access roads. The following video features the huge hydroelectric dam that Solel Boneh constructed in Guatemala.

Staying in the water, DSIT Solutions has won a NIS 45 million deal from a government oil company to protect the coastline of an undisclosed Asian country, using its AquaShield sonar system.

Back at home, there was a breakthrough agreement during the discussions about water between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at the recent Ashdod Sustainability Conference. And I must send Mazel Tov greetings to Israel's latest water champion.Welcome to bicygnals online innovative r4onsale and torches. Lee Korzits has just won the second gold medal of her career in the ISAF World Windsurfing Championships in Perth Australia.

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2011年12月15日 星期四

The future with LEDs

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A presentation by Ron Steen, VP of Market Development at Xicato, will address color-quality issues of LED sources, showing practical examples of white-color variation and challenging the audience to define levels of acceptability. Included in the presentation will be a live demonstration of these concepts.

Although museum lighting represents a relatively small niche in the overall lighting market, it is one of the most demanding applications, and represents a rigorous testing environment for the attributes of LED lighting. Naomi Miller, a highly-regarded lighting designer with an extensive background in SSL, and now at PNNL,bestledlightbulbs1 will present the results of three DOE Gateway demonstration projects on museum lighting.

This session will feature speakers who will discuss their visions of the future of LED lighting, including the opportunities as well as the challenges. Leading off the session will be Mark McClear, Global Director for Applications Engineering at Cree LED Components. His presentation will address "The Next Big Thing" in LED lighting, including new innovations that are on the horizon in the context of what is achievable and affordable, when and why.

Nadarajah Narendran, Director of Research at the LRC, will give a presentation on overcoming the technical and human factors challenges of SSL. He will discuss the recent research findings of the Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST) in areas such as light-source flicker, compatibility of LED replacement lamps with residential dimmers, and driver lifetime projections, and the performance of SSL in various applications.

Amy Olay, Senior Engineer with the San Jose Department of Transportation, will discuss the Californian city's program of "smart" street-light systems. Her presentation will review the strategies pursued, the lessons learned,ccrystal and the city's next steps.dvinglamp001

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2011年12月13日 星期二

Woodburn celebrates with new LED lights

West Virginia University students and members of the Morgantown community came together Friday evening for a timeless Mountaineer tradition: the lighting of Woodburn Hall.

But, this year was a little different from the rest – the iconic, 135-year-old building was adorned with LED lights as part of a new green initiative.

A $3.9 million renovation project to the historic building began in 2010 and included a new roof, stonework, copper-lined gutters and safety features for employees working on the rooftop.

LED lights were selected to increase the bulb life cycle, reduce maintenance costs and reduce energy consumption.

WVU First Lady Beth Clements said for her, the lighting of Woodburn Hall reflects the University's achievements over the past year.These Bicygnals divinglight2011 allow you to keep both hands on the bars while you signal for ...

"As we light up this hall,,goodmagicshine offer brightness along with durability, longevity and a price that's easy on the wallet. let us reflect on the good we have collectively accomplished throughout the year," she said. "This is a time for us to be thankful for what we have been given and to be generous in our giving."

Charitable actions through the University, faculty and students this year included $335,000 raised for the United Way Campaign of Monongalia and Preston counties and the Toy Mountain located in the Mountainlair.

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Student Government Association President Jason Bailey was the master of the ceremonies for the annual tradition.

"The work is now complete on Woodburn Hall, and we are very proud to show it off for its 135th anniversary," Bailey said. "We will also unveil brand new energy efficient LED lighting that will shine in different ways all year round."

The new LED lights change from Mountaineer gold and blue to red and green for the holiday season.

The ceremony also included musical performances from Mountaineer Idol finalists and Mountaineer Idol winner Chelsea Malone.

Special guests of the ceremony included 4-year-old Brody Wilmoth and his parents.

Wilmoth represented WVU Children's Hospital for the ceremony. He was born prematurely and developed a serious condition known as a pulmonary hemorrhage. After treatment at the hospital, he recovered and is a healthy young boy.

Wilmoth was given the honor of pressing the button to light the display during the celebration.

Hundreds of students attended the ceremony to mark the beginning of the holiday season.

"Seeing everyone come together for the lighting and seeing children like Brody enjoying the spirit of the holidays was inspiring," said Sarah Eckles, a sophomore wildlife and fisheries student. "It is something that every WVU student should come to during their college career."

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2011年12月5日 星期一

Tons of drugs found in U.S.-Mexico border tunnel

More than 36 tons of marijuana were discovered in what's being called the "most sophisticated tunnel on the border" between Mexico and the United States, a U.S. drug enforcement source said on Friday.

According to the Law Enforcement Examiner source, 32.4 tons were seized on the U.S. side of the tunnel in San Diego, while about 4 tons were seized in Mexico. Authorities stated they are not certain who owned the drugs with a street value of nearly $65 million.

Six suspects also were arrested in the U.S.-Mexican law enforcement operation.

Special Agent Derek Benner of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told news organizations in San Diego that the 600-meter-long passage, located between Tijuana and San Diego, was equipped with a sophisticated hydraulic elevator, electric-powered shuttle-cars running on rails,Browse through our impressive range of r4onsale and buy online now. a wooden staircase and hardwood floors from one end to another.

"This is an incredibly efficient tunnel designed to move a lot of narcotics," Benner said.

The tunnel, 50 feet below ground, bears signs of engineering skill and professional drilling tools. It was carved through solid rock. Compact fluorescent bulbs wired to the Mexican side of the border provide light while two pumps keep the tunnel dry, according to the DEA.

Shrink-wrapped bundles of marijuana worth $5.6 million on the street were found at the end of the tunnel in a shipping container, indicating that it was intended to serve as a major smuggling corridor.

Officials believe that the tunnel being used to secretly transport contraband began operation recently.

Lauren Mack, another ICE spokeswoman, described the tunnel as one of the "most sophisticated" ever discovered on the border.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Border Patrol announced they had seized more than five tons of marijuana at a south Texas U.S.-Mexico border checkpoint.

Border Patrol agents discovered the drugs in a truck loaded with broccoli at the checkpoint. The 470 bundles of marijuana were worth about $8.2 million, according to the Border Patrol. The driver, who was not identified, was turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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"That shop's 'look' fit right in with my philosophy. I don't want to make bamboo rods that are merely functional; I want to make rods that are functional and beautiful. Most hobbyists' shops are merely functional. I wanted to make mine aesthetically pleasing as well as functional."

One thing was a given: Smith wanted his shop to have a bamboo floor.

"I figured that since I make bamboo rods, a bamboo floor was only fitting," he explained. "In fact, it was a no-brainer. I actually passed on getting a bigger building so I could afford the bamboo floor."

Instead of the cold fluorescent lighting found in many workshops, Smith chose warm incandescent lights - recessed can-style floodlights over the work areas, and track lights to illuminate the rest of the 8-by-12-foot space.