Light bulb with 20-year service life are presented in the U.S. on Earth Day

Last Sunday, the international Day of the Earth Dutch favorite domestic and industrial technology, a Philips company, announced the release of U.S. new energy-saving light bulbs. This bulb service life more than twenty years.

In 2012, energy saving light bulb from Philips won the prize of ten million dollars U.S. Department of energy's "Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize" ("Lighting the future") and received its name L Prize bulb. Until that time, it was possible to buy only in retail retailers for the price of $ 40. But now the company has announced that it wants to lower the cost of light bulbs up to 20 – $ 25.

 




The light output of ten Watts is an efficient replacement for conventional 60 watt incandescent bulb. As they say in the Philips, using for 3 hours daily it will work not less than 27.5 years. It is very important for the average consumer who has already calculated the benefits of buying and using light bulbs in the amount of approximately $ 165. According to representatives of the company in North America, ed Crawford, a new light bulb from Philips is 84 percent energoeffektivnee than conventional 60-watt incandescent bulbs. It should be noted that the L Prize bulb has the standard E27 base and approximate dimensions of ten inches long and five inches wide.

 




In the international Earth Day, which this year is celebrated in 43-rd time, environmentalists around the world will try to attract public attention to global climate change and problems of environmental pollution and to find solutions to energy savings.





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