Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent

Zothecula writes: With LEDs being the preferred long-lasting, low-energy method for replacing less efficient forms of lighting, their uptake has dramatically increased over the past few years. However, despite their luminous outputs having increased steadily over that time, they still fall behind more conventional forms of lighting in terms of brightness. Researchers at Princeton University claim to have come up with a way to change all that by using nanotechnology to increase the output of organic LEDs by 57 percent.

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Use a power bar and save money.

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll save between and 1% and 5% on your yearly electrical expenditures if you stop wasting your money pointlessly converting electricity to heat. And then running the AC to get rid of the heat.

Remember, every single thing that has a remote control draws power 100% of the time. Wall wart power supplies also draw power 100% of the time, regardless of whether you have anything plugged into them.

Unless you use a power strip... the only things in my house that aren't on power switches are the fridge, the water heater and the furnace. Well, actually the furnace is on a switch, but I leave it turned on 24x7 in winter.

On some other forum I might point out that this saves fossil fuels and also keeps carbon and ozone out of the atmosphere, but I know better than to do that here. Let's go roll coal on some environmentalists!