Light Bulb of the future made by Philips
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Sep 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
Philips just made a light bulb and submitted the bulb for a $10M prize started by the Department of Energy
From the NY Times
Philips just made a light bulb and submitted the bulb for a $10M prize started by the Department of Energy
From the NY Times
Philips announced today that it is the first company to submit anentry in the contest. The company has first-mover advantage, because iftheir lamp is shown to meet the rules, then Philips wins, even if another company enters later with better results.
In May 2008, the Department of Energy announced that it would award$10 million to the first company that developed a solid-state lamp thatcould replace a standard bulb. Among the criteria: The lamp can use nomore than 10 watts to create the equivalent light of a 60-wattincandescent bulb; the color of the light output must mimic that oftoday’s incandescents; and the bulbs must last at least 25,000 hours,as much as 25 times as long as today’s standard bulbs.
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