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Old 06-05-2009, 09:21 AM   #25
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LEDs do look very attractive. 50,000 hour life, and less than half the electricity use of CFLs.

Every torch I've bought recently had had an LED. I can't see any good reason to buy anything else.

But for room lights they have some way to go yet. But if they're not widespread (& inexpensive) by 2020 (at the latest) I'll be very surprised.


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I recently ran across an article about a college that replaced a few hundred of its ceiling-mounted fluorescents with LED lights... at $75 a bulb, versus $2.50 for a standard tube fluorescent. Me, I don't know how they managed it, especially in this economic climate. But they did.

I'm eyeing LED bulbs too, but so far, I don't have the money to replace the lights in my house with them. Hopefully they'll come down in price soon, and we'll see (!) a lot more LED lights about.
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