{"id":521035,"date":"2010-04-08T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1343\/ahead-of-schedule-an-led-bulb-for-us-all.html"},"modified":"2010-04-08T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:23:00","slug":"ahead-of-schedule-an-led-bulb-for-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521035","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of schedule, an LED bulb for us all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"geledbulb\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/geledbulb.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday we brought you news of Cree&#8217;s new module that will soon be working its way into lighting fixtures. We asked when we&#8217;d see their technology taking the shape of high-brightness bulbs that could fit in for home use.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was within the next year or two. But today GE announced that they&#8217;ll have an LED bulb replacement using Cree&#8217;s LEDs available by the end of 2010. Now, let&#8217;s be clear, this joint project from Cree and GE isn&#8217;t as bright or as technologically advanced as the module we discussed yesterday, but it is a huge step forward for LED technology and I can&#8217;t wait to get my hands on one (or a dozen).<\/p>\n<p>These bulbs will fit into any traditional bulb socket and will produce about as much light as a 40 watt bulb. It consumes just 9 watts and lasts up to 17 years. It doesn&#8217;t contain any hazardous substances but will cost up to $50.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, over the life of the bulb, it will be cheaper than incandescents, but when you just want a new lightbulb, it&#8217;s hard to choose the $50 one over the $0.50 one.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/nrufglkyrj0\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday we brought you news of Cree&#8217;s new module that will soon be working its way into lighting fixtures. We asked when we&#8217;d see their technology taking the shape of high-brightness bulbs that could fit in for home use. The answer was within the next year or two. But today GE announced that they&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}