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May 15, 2008 9:12 am US/Central

In The Know: Future's So Bright, Gotta Wear Shades

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Don Shelby
(WCCO) The federal government plans to outlaw the old-fashioned incandescent light bulb. The big alternative right now is energy saving compact fluorescents, but Don Shelby says not to get too used to them, either. There's something else on the horizon.

You've heard of LED lights? Now, General Electric is working on the O-LED light, made of organic material that will kind of roll out like a sheet. It is about two years away from mass production.

Here's the cool part: you won't need lights in the ceiling. The ceiling will be a light ... or a wall, or a 12-inch square of it taped to your headboard so you can read at night. And, it will produce four times as much light per unit of electricity than an old fashioned bulb.

So, once a market develops and people start buying O-LEDs for their new homes or businesses, the price ought to be right. That's the thing I like about the coming of a new energy-efficient economy. Not since the space race have so many great minds come together to invent a whole new future.

I don't know about you, but I'd like to be a part of that. To borrow a line from the movie "Men in Black," "I have got to get me one of them things."



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