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Use LED holiday lightsSave energy and money with long-lasting LED holiday lightsLED lighting is improving all the time, but it’s not yet advanced enough to be able to replace CFLs as a standard for low-energy lighting around the home. One place you can definitely use LED lights is for decorating your house and/or Christmas tree this holiday. This year we’re selling LED holiday lights in our green store. How this helps The bulbs can last up to 50,000 hours (that’s over five years of continuous lighting — no more tweaking every bulb trying to find the dud!) and use up to 90% less energy than standard incandescent bulbs. One estimate puts the potential savings at over $8 for just one tree’s worth of lights! More information
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Hi Peter,
I disagree with your first sentence. LED lights illuminate most of my home, the technology IS advanced enough. The problem is cost which is not inherent in the technology but just due to low production volume. If people skipped the mercury laden CFLs and installed LED the costs would drop dramatically. Energy consumption for same light out as an incandescent of 75watts a CFL=30watts and LED=8watts!
I imaging $40-60 per light bulb are difficult to sell at the moment, only energy nuts like myself are buying them.
Regards
Chris
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by James on November 19, 2008 8:48 AM
can you provide a link to where to purchase these things? I haven't found anything in my searches that lead me to believe this is possible yet -- I've been waiting for LED options in household lighting, but been quite disappointed with what I've found. I'm just such a nut...
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by Steve on November 28, 2008 8:37 AM
I tend to agree with Chris--the problem is the price, not the technical ability.
This means this technology will follow every other technological/price curve--it will have its praises sung to the hills as "the" solution (as CFLs once were) but will have slow use as prices are high. As prices come down (due to manufacturing improvements and gradually increasing use) there will eventually be a "breakthrough" point where LEDs will see more widespread use. Rising energy prices will speed this along of course.
Neither Sam's nor the local Costco seem to have these bulbs yet, but I'm encouraged that some folks have seen them at other bulk sellers (such as BJ's). I'll keep an eye out for them hereabouts.
Steve
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Hi James,
I have some links on my web site chriswakeham.com, click on LED Bulbs at the top. I think it is important to get the 3000K temperature ones, the 6000K ones look too blue and unnatural. There are pictures comparing the light from Incandescent, CFL and LED on my site.
Enjoy!
Chris
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i purchased these exact lights at BJ's wholesale club for 10.99 and 16.99 for 180. They have all the same colors as displayed on this website. The whites are so much brigther than the colored ones.
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