Plasma light bulb is deemed as the next generation of light bulb that converts electricity efficiently into light for you. The bulb is said to be so efficient that can produce the light which is equivalent to the brightness of daylight.
Plasma light bulb seems to be burning extremely hot at its core, which can heat up to an insane 6000-degrees Kelvin, equivalent to temperature that you get on the surface of the sun. The light bulb is also said to put out 140 lumens per watt, which is almost ten times as efficient as an incandescent bulb and double the efficiency of an LED.
The size of the plasma light bulb is really tiny, which you can see in the picture, it’s only slightly bigger than an LED, but a single plasma bulb is even brighter than a streetlight. The core’s temperature of 6,000 K, is close to the color temperature of daylight (5500K), making it perfect as a energy saver light but having no defect of “cold” light found on other energy-saving bulbs.
The plasma light bulb is the product of Luxim, which the company is now having plan to push it to entertainment industries for the use in projectors and light displays.
via [Wired]
April 9th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Luxim has updated their website with more information to support their attendance of Building & Light 2008 in Frankfurt Germany. Highlights: 30,000 hours, CRI 95, CCT Color Temp 5500, 180 watt / 22,000 lumens, 120 lumens/watt. Looks great.
http://www.lifi.com/dynamic/LandB2008.html
http://www.lifi.com/dynamic/pdfs/AboutLUXIM-LIFI.pdf
http://www.lifi.com/dynamic/pdfs/CompLuminairePerformance.pdf
April 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
As someone who sells light bulbs for a living, I find this advancement to be exciting. Currently, we sell quite a few compact fluorescent bulbs, but many of our customers have concerns about their mercury content. If this technology were to become scaled down to a size that could be utilized by the average consumer, it would be far more efficient (in terms of lumens per watt) than compact fluorescents, and presumably less toxic.
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