[Zero-point]

If all of the world’s light bulbs were replaced with LEDs for a period of 10 years, Schubert and Kim estimate the following benefits would be realized:

* Total energy consumption would be reduced by 1,929.84 joules
* Electrical energy consumption would be reduced by terawatt hours
* Financial savings of $1.83 trillion
* Carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 10.68 gigatons
* Crude oil consumption would be reduced by 962 million barrels
* The number of required global power plants would be reduced by 280

Full article at Researchers Lay Out Vision for Lighting “Revolution”

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If all of the world’s light bulbs were replaced with LEDs for a period of 10 years, Schubert and Kim estimate the following benefits would be realized:

* Total energy consumption would be reduced by 1,929.84 joules
* Electrical energy consumption would be reduced by terawatt hours
* Financial savings of $1.83 trillion
* Carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 10.68 gigatons
* Crude oil consumption would be reduced by 962 million barrels
* The number of required global power plants would be reduced by 280

1 joule = 1 watt for 1 second. not a heck of a lot of energy.

there's a typo in the article, or it needs to be qualified, maybe that's per light bulb per day or something.

[aldente]

At least your pet can be healed with protons..



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[yesplease]

1 joule = 1 watt for 1 second. not a heck of a lot of energy.

there's a typo in the article, or it needs to be qualified, maybe that's per light bulb per day or something.

I'm thinking tera-joules...

[vaseline2008]

The original source article states:

Table 1. Global benefits enabled by solid-state lighting technology over period of 10 years.
Reduction in total energy consumption 1.892 x 10[sup]20[/sup] J
Reduction in electrical energy consumption 18,310 TWh
Financial savings $1.831 x 10[sup]12[/sup]
Reduction in CO2 emission 10.68 Gt
Reduction of crude-oil consumption 962.4 x 10[sup]6[/sup] barrels
Number of power plants not needed 280

[Narz]

LED's are da' bomb!