LED Light Bulbs
This MSNBC article on LED light bulbs starts off with charming snarkiness:
Next time you screw in a cheap incandescent light bulb, ask yourself this: Do you ride a horse to work? Still churning your own butter? […]
I’m well aware of LEDs as a light source and I still enjoy my Inova X5 LED Flashlight, but it hadn’t occurred to me that they could be put to use in home fixtures. (As you might have guessed, it’s not a single LED that screws into a light socket, but rather a cluster of them which form a single unit.)
The article writes about LEDs’ long life, saying that they’d last 10 times longer than compact-fluorescent bulbs and 100 times longer than an incandescent bulb. The downside, though, is cost — even the low-end ones are about $25 per bulb. Ouch. I mean, the energy savings would be nice, but I would think it could take a while to recoup that kind of initial investment :-/.
I picked up two of these puppies from Think Geek and have to say that I am quite disappointed. They don’t really cut it in the power department and the blue glow is kinda eerie.