Nanofiber Lamps Are More Efficient Than Incandescent Bulbs, Eco-Friendlier Than Fluorescent

Fascinating. It looks like it's putting out a nice warm temperature of diffuse white light. If they can get the manufacturing process down so it's inexpensive to make, it could replace most of our current home and office lighting. I wonder if they are working on a one-stage light that doesn't need a blue LED pump?

What about LED lights? Aren't they comparable/better or are they even more expensive and/or less efficient?

That's it.
I'm naming my first born son "Nano."

I'm sure he'll thank me for it later.

"RTI International claims to have solved the problem with the invention of nanofiber bulbs more efficient than regular lights, and more environmentally sound than fluorescent bulbs."

Nanofiber lighting is said to be 5 times more efficient than incandescent bulbs but they seem to be not comparing other lighting efficiencies. In 2 more years in the US we all will be forced into buying fluorescents or LED's because incandescent bulbs will no longer be sold in the US.

About 10 percent of the energy that comes out of a Incandescent bulbs is light the rest is heat energy, so at 5 times more efficient that would claim to be 50 percent of the energy that comes out of the Nanofiber light would be heat energy but according to the claim the nanofiber light put out (55 lumens of light per watt) that makes it only 23 percent of the actual energy needed to produce the white light.

"For white light, the maximum luminous efficacy is around 240 lumens per watt," so 240/55 = 23 percent???

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_bulb

Case for LED's

"The C. Crane Company has a product called "Geobulb". The GeoBulb II uses only 7.5 W (59 lumens/W)."

Case for fluorescent

"The latest T8-sized triphosphate fluorescent lamps produced by Osram, Philips, Crompton and others have a life expectancy greater than 50,000 hours, if coupled with a warm start electronic ballast. The efficiency of these new lamps approaches (100 lumens/W)."

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_lighting

As a result the latest florescent light, 100 (lum/W), is almost 2 times more efficient as the nanofiber light, (55 lum/W), and lasts 50,000 hours.

Still after all the dust settles the nanofiber lights may be the future of lighting because they only started to scratch the surface with this new technology its efficiency and cost of production can only improve with time as has all the other contestants in this race to light up our world...

Ron Bennett

A white light and yet, warm? White light is usually harsh on the eyes I wouldn't describe it as warm. If the temperature of this light is closer to that of incandescent bulbs then I wouldn't mind it. I don't care how green it is, if it's white light or similar to fluorescent, count me out. I hate the daylight bulbs. Nothing like turning on a bright, obnoxious white light in the evenings. =/

"Until then, everyone has to continue lighting their house the old-fashioned way."

Candles?

I think we should stop using so many lights and start using glow in the dark products because they don't use electricity and don't CAUSE CANCER.

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