The Benefits of LED Lights

Energy efficiency – LED lights use 90% less electricity than standard bulbs.

Long life – LED lights can last from 50,000 to 100,000 hours. Incandescent light bulbs average around 1,000 hours while fluorescent's are good for approximately 10,000 hours.

Durability – LED lights have no fragile filament or tube. They are resistant to heat, cold, and shock.

Lumens per watt – While manufacturers are still finding new ways to increase this ratio. The typical ratio available in today's market averages around 55 lumens to 1 watt while incandescent bulbs average 15 to 1.

 

LED Lights and the Environment

By changing one light bulb in your building you could help to save the environment. The fact is that by changing one of your regular incandescent light bulbs to a LED light, you can help to protect the environment and save money. LED lights last 10 times longer than a regular incandescent bulb and are four times more efficient. LED lighting uses nearly 90 percent less energy than an incandescent bulb does, which translates to financial savings for you and a cleaner environment.

Though currently more expensive to purchase up front, LED lighting fixtures will save you in long-term operational costs. LED lighting only uses one third of the energy that an incandescent bulb uses. An 18-watt LED light can replace a 75-watt incandescent bulb; in the lifetime of that 18-watt LED light (which is ten times longer than the incandescent) you will save 570 kilowatts of energy. This would be a rough savings of nearly $50 on your energy bill. A LED light easily pays for itself in its lifetime.

Regular light bulbs put carbon dioxide, sulfur oxide and nuclear waste into the landfills and atmosphere. By changing your light bulbs to low energy LED lighting, one single bulb keeps one half ton of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through its life cycle. It will also keep the sulfur oxide and nuclear waste to a minimum in the landfills and environment. By switching one bulb in your and in every throughout the United States, the environmental concerns being discussed with fervency these past couple of years can begin to be addressed on a global scale.