The answer to the above question may not seem obvious to you unless you understand the importance and value of state of the art lighting. Examine the photo above. What do you see? The left side has bright, vibrant color while the right side is dingy and everything is kind of yellow. The left side [...]
Above is the “after” picture of a CES customer—a large shop of a manufacturing company—after installing LED lights. The lighting transformation is profound—great color, no unwanted shadows, no added heat to the room from lighting, no flickering and no fluorescent light noise. This company replaced all their 4 foot fluorescent bulbs with LED. Not just [...]
As the Director of Energy Efficiency at Consumer Energy Solutions, I never cease to be amazed at the significant features and benefits of our new Next Generation LED Lights. It all begins with a free survey of your commercial property to see what you need—number and types of bulbs, fixtures, etc. You may think that [...]
LED lighting has been the state-of-the art in energy efficient lighting for some time now. What is meant by “state-of-the-art?” Per Mr. Webster it’s “the level of development (as of a device, procedure, process, technique, or science) reached at any particular time usually as a result of modern methods.” LED lighting definitely fits that definition [...]
Out of Clark County Las Vegas comes a story that has resulted in the formation of the Las Vegas LED Classroom Lighting Initiative Project. This story is worth telling, because it is a moving story of how all the students at one small private school benefited from actions taken to help one little girl with [...]
I have written in the past about the virtues of upgrading a commercial property to LED lighting. I want to now give you a specific example of a parking garage project that demonstrates overall savings on a realistic level. The four important pieces of information that must be gathered to calculate the savings on any [...]
We are all by now familiar with the benefits of LED lighting—for a business LED lighting can save upwards of 30-70% on the lighting portion of the business’s electric bill. LEDs are unbelievably energy efficient, they last a very long time, they contain no mercury or substances that require special disposal or would be harmful [...]
I have written in the past about the virtues of upgrading a commercial property to LED lighting. I want to now give you a specific example of a parking garage project that demonstrates overall savings on a realistic level. The four important pieces of information that must be gathered to calculate the savings on any [...]
Unbelievably, back in 1767, the first use of sunlight for heat generation was successfully achieved when a Swiss geologist and physicist, Horace Benedict de Saussure, created the first solar oven. He put together a simple pine box with three glass layers. Two smaller boxes were placed inside with black inner coating. When the sun’s rays [...]
CES has had a lot of good news throughout the month of February! A great deal of this good news comes from our Community Betterment activities! Our Director of Community Relations, Lynn Posyton, is always out there creating relationships with awesome people. For example, Lynn has been giving weekly Drug Education classes at Center Academy [...]
