This month's e-tech comments how improvements in LEDs have been enormous since the invention of the technology in the early 1960s. Efficiency and light output have doubled every two to three years since then, with even more rapid rates of improvement in recent years. The US DoE (Department of Energy) predicts that LEDs will make up 70 % of the lighting market by 2020, up from their current market share of less than 1 %A further comment on LED Week underlines the astonishing progress of the lighting technology and gives a good all round summary of use and suppliers.
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Posted by Bosque 764 days ago (http://www.wattwatt.com)This month's e-tech comments how improvements in LEDs have been enormous since the invention of the technology in the early 1960s. Efficiency and light output have doubled every two to three years since then, with even more rapid rates of improvement in recent years. The US DoE (Department of Energy) predicts that LEDs will make up 70 % of the lighting market by 2020, up from their current market share of less than 1 %A further comment on LED Week underlines the astonishing progress of the lighting technology and gives a good all round summary of use and suppliers.
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