Month: April 2007

LED Lamp Usually Burns Longer

Diodes are part of electrical circuits serving as a kind of check valve to allow electricity to flow in only one direction. They are especially useful if electricity flowing the other way could damage key components. An LED lamp uses the diode, which has the added benefit of emitting a light when electricity is passed through one.

The main benefits of an LED lamp is that is has no filament to break or burn out, they do not get hot while operating and are small enough to be used in a variety of equipment such as cell phones and as indicator lights on other electronic equipment. They are also used to make numbers on calculators and digital watches. Most LED lamps were only available in red, yellow and a greenish yellow until recently when other colors became available.

The color of an LED lamp is determined by the output wavelength and virtually any color is now available including white, or what appears to be a clear bulb, and are frequently used as the light source for smaller flashlights. To prevent the LED lamp from burning to toast, a resister in a series circuit with the lamp is necessary.

LED Flashlights Burn Brighter Longer

With the use of an LED lamp and coin-size batteries, flashlights have continued to grow smaller as light emitting diodes typically require less voltage then incandescent light bulbs. There have super bright flashlights designed using several LED lamps and with the same batteries, using lower resistance in the circuit, enough power is generated to light several LEDs at the same time.

Since true white light from an LED lamp is really an illusion or extremely bright blue and a special coating on the bulb, photographs taken with a while LED lamp on the subject typically shows up with a bluish tint or a blue circle on the print where the light is the strongest. To reduce the tint or the blue halo effect, an orange filter can be used to hide the blue light from the film.

It is possible to replace tail lights of your car or motorcycle with LED lamps, but there would be several variables in play such as the number of lamps that would be needed to provide the brightness required by the laws in your state. Additionally, the red reflector still has to be in place and that will also reduce the brightness of the LEDs output.

Considering the Future and Ethanol: What is Going to Come?

When we consider the future in general, we must realize that there is a significant correlation between the future and ethanol, and so this is one matter that we must take incredibly seriously into consideration. The reason that there is a relationship between the matters of the future and ethanol is primarily due to the fact that ethanol is considered as being our next readily supply of fuel.

The Future and Ethanol

Ethanol is a chemical which is considered as having a number of different and all just as important factors, and it is also considered as having numerous different benefits. It is considered as being better than even biodiesel, and so basically it is the top choice in regards to an answer as to what we will be using in the future as our main source of fuel.

Although the actual future and ethanol are not completely coordinated side by side yet, it is considered as being almost positively true that ethanol is going to become huge, and that we are all not going to be able to go a day without hearing the word at least once.

As well, in regards to the future and ethanol, it should be known to all that about 10% of the gasoline that is sold in the US is actually a blend of up to 10% ethanol, which is an alcohol that is made by distilling corn, wheat, and sometimes sugar.

One of the problems with ethanol however is the fact that the straw and the stalks that are left after the distillation process get burned by farmers, and if you have ever smelled a sugar cane field that is burning after harvest, then you know that it smells incredibly bad, and you should know that not only does it smell bad, but it is completely unhealthy for you as well.

As well, something that people for the most part seem not to understand or are just ignoring, is the fact that the stalks, once they are squeezed out of all their sugar, are not totally useless as some would say, but rather they can be used for further things.

Basically the most important thing is that everyone learns as much about ethanol as they can before it is too late, so that we can all gain a proper and full understanding on what it is before we are mindlessly using it for various different things.