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Lighting up a new era
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LED lamps have immense energy saving potential.
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Replacing the estimated eight lakh “zero watt” incandescent lamps in use in Kerala with Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps will amount to setting up a 9.11-mw power plant under the current circumstances, says Georgekutty Karianappally of Lifeway Solar, a company in India dealing in LED lamps.
Proper awareness and the will to change can give LED lamps their rightful place even as the world stares at energy crisis and global warming.
Advantages
The fact of their long life compared to conventional lighting devices, their low power consumption compared to CFL lamps now in vogue, low heat generation and their flexibility are rendering them darlings of a new lighting era.
Interior designers love them despite the current restrictions in design choices available and air-conditioning experts more than happily fall for them. LED lamps hold great prospects for lighting public areas. Streets, lobbies, studios, showrooms, etc. can reap the 100 per cent benefits of this revolution in lighting technology.
Their impact is evident from gate lightings to cupboard and showcase lightings where their reliance on solar energy or flexibility and low power consumption make them capable of beating competition in the future.
LED lamps, however, are yet to make a conquest of households in the country.
And that will come with the perfection of the LED lighting technology. Lack of awareness is a significant factor too.
A spokesman for a leading electrical dealership in Kochi said that LED lamps were moving quickly and the trend was encouraging with more and more people becoming aware of their advantages.
Good demand
LED lighting systems that come with full fixtures have been moving quickly too.
For example, a full fixture gate lighting can cost upwards of Rs.8,500.
A LED lamp is a solid state lighting system that uses light emitting diodes as sources of illumination (when electric current passes through them) rather than filaments or gas.
K.A. MARTIN
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