The LEDS are Coming

Seoul launches single LED package delivering 900lm at 10W without the poisonous mercury, which would be talked about until the cows came home if it weren't for the fact that CFLs fit the loony toons alarmist global warming agenda ... Odd how the agenda trumps safety isn't it? I can see the day when the mercury in CFLs enters the food chain through ground water contamination and then the fish, so it's coming, because don't you know 'w e got to do something to save the planet. Remember MTBE and how it was going to save us all, then the results came in from CA groundwater studies and ... now MTBE is banned and the very same government that mandated it's use is suing the gasoline companies for using it, go figure.

LEDs have made more sense from the beginning, it's only the government that does no wrong who can't seem to see that. Note the four seperate LED dies in an array of the package below.

Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has announced the commercial release of its ultra-bright Z-Power P7 Series LED, which has entered volume production. Seoul claims that the new LED, which incorporates four chips in a single package, delivers record brightness of 900 lumens at 10 watts.

In comparison with a 60W incandescent lamp producing 660 lm with an efficacy of 11lm/W, the 10W P7 single LED package produces a luminous flux of 900lm with eight-fold higher efficacy of 90lm/W. This is also nearly one-and-a-half times higher than for compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), which typically consume 15W and emit 924lm (an efficacy of 61lm/W).