LEDs Are Lighting Up A Whole New World

LEDs Are Lighting Up A Whole New World: With high power, high efficiency LEDs, lighting the world in a whole new way is growing in its possibilities. You'll find LED lamps everywhere now, inside and outside. They are found in street lights and parking lot lights. Some buildings even use different lighting possibilities to create masterful illusions to landscaping. Because LED lamps last a long time and are built tough, car lighting has been dramatically transformed, as well as the lighting on bicycles and motorcycles.

In 2007, the entire village of Torraca, Italy converted all of its street lights and outside lightings to an LED lamp style. This led to massive savings in cost and energy output. In aviation, LED lamps have found their way not only throughout the airports, and along runways, but on their airplanes as well. The Airbus A320 Enhanced has been using LED only lighting since 2007. Boeing is following suit, converting to all LED lighting on their 787s. You'll see LED lamps in airport interiors and exteriors, and on heliports. Out on the runway, the lights are LED, including the center line, edge and taxiway lights. Guidance signage and obstruction lights are converted to LED lamps.

In the consumer market, advances in television manufacturing has led to the integration of LED lighting in LCD TVs, and laptop displays have benefited from this backlighting technology. DLP projectors also contain LED lamps. Color television has increased value by almost have with the introduction of RGB LED lighting. LED lamps have led to the rush of flat screens for television and computer monitors.