Sentences with phrase «as incandescent»

This light switch can easily control any kind of load such as incandescent as well as fluorescent light, ceiling fans and motor based devices.

The OPAL is rather big compared to most lightbulbs, so if you're thinking of using it in a cramped space, make sure to check the dimensions in the spec sheet above, but the TOPAZ is about the same size as an incandescent, or maybe just a tad bigger.

I think LED lightbulbs will use about 1/10 as much energy as incandescent bulbs and they'll put out higher quality light.

And though a CFL may cost twice as much as an incandescent, it lasts 10 times as long.

The larger energy savings potentials include shifting from century - old technologies such as incandescent light bulbs and internal combustion engines to far more efficient technologies.

Just as an incandescent bulb radiates out 95 % heat which is thermal infrared, and only 5 % visible light.

Such as incandescent light bulbs and such things as camera flash bulbs or light produced by electrical welding.

And the filament isn't heated to as high temperature as an incandescent light bulb.

Only the more knowledgeable consumers knew that a compact fluorescent bulb uses only one fourth as much electricity as an incandescent bulb, lasts 10 times as long, and easily saves $ 50 during its lifetime.

I think that by the time you add the energy footprint to manufacture the CFL (including the semiconductors, extracting and shipping and handling the raw materials, etc.) and then the energy footprint to recycle / dispose of / post-use-handle the CFL, the TOTAL energy budget is probably the same as an incandescent.

So there are visual, sound and temperature elements to assimilate when experiencing the work, as the incandescent bar heaters buzz and the fans whirr.

Another point to consider is that using LED bulbs is often a better choice because they provide a warmer light and don't give off as much heat as incandescent bulbs.

One reason consumers lacked interest was that the new bulbs can cost five times as much as incandescents.

The bulbs don't run as hot as incandescents, but they still get warm and that heat over time degrades the bulbs and shortens their life span.

Not exact matches

As sophisticated electronic devices make reading onscreen not just convenient but comfortable, paper seems unnecessary, even obsolete, a harmful indulgence like plastic bags or incandescent light bulbs.

The bulb An 8.5 - watt LED bulb produces 600 lumens of light, about the same as a 50 - watt incandescent bulb, but uses up to 80 % less power.

Retailing at a steep $ 49.97, the bulb is supposed to last for 25 years and provide the same type of light as the traditional incandescent lights.

(At truly incandescent sports moments, as when the basketball team of my alma mater and former employer Valparaiso University this year advanced, against all expectation and indeed against all rational hope, into the third round of the NCAA championship, the grace takes on the character of the miraculous.)

Be aware that commonly - used CFL bulbs (which have replaced incandescent light bulbs as a more energy - efficient option) contain mercury and have special procedures to follow if one breaks.

He wrote four books, the last of which, Thinking the Twentieth Century, is a synthetic history that serves as a marvelous homage to his life's work, his style of thinking, and an insider's look at a truly incandescent mind.

They are made by companies with a long history of manufacturing incandescent lights, such as General Electric Co. and Philips, which are now promoting the new technology.

A 12.5 - watt LED bulb can illuminate as much as a 60 - watt incandescent bulb and have a lifetime of as much as 30,000 hours.

There is room for improvement: incandescent bulbs currently waste 90 percent of their energy as heat.

What appears as a blue bulge on its top is actually a colossal gout of incandescent sulfurous material spouting from the northern volcano Tvashtar.

Compact fluorescent lightbulbs, for example, use 75 percent less energy than standard incandescents and last 10 times as long.

The results showed that LEDs attracted four times fewer insects compared with the traditional incandescent lamps, and half as many as were attracted to a compact fluorescent lamp.

That is, some viewers perceive the dress as lit with natural light and see white, while others perceive it as lit with incandescent indoor light and see blue.

For humans, the most worrisome insights revealed by the atlas are the effects of an ongoing shift to light - emitting diodes — LEDs — as sources of outdoor light over older incandescent illumination.

Cost has been the major obstacle for LEDs, which last up to as 50,000 hours (10 years if used 12 hours a day)-- gradually dimming over time — compared with about 800 hours for a typical 100 - watt incandescent.

But even Young believes that LEDs and OLEDs will likely coexist, serving different functions: LEDs will likely replace incandescents whereas OLEDs might light the offices of the future in the form of glowing ceiling panels or windows that light up as the sun sets.

While as a proof - of - concept the research group built a more energy - efficient incandescent light bulb, the same approach could also be used to improve the performance of other hot thermal emitters, including thermo - photovoltaic devices.

Whereas the luminous efficiency of conventional incandescent lights is between 2 and 3 percent, that of fluorescents (including CFLs) is between 7 and 15 percent, and that of most commercial LEDs between 5 and 20 percent, the new two - stage incandescents could reach efficiencies as high as 40 percent, the team says.

Incandescent bulbs, commercially developed by Thomas Edison (and still used by cartoonists as the symbol of inventive insight), work by heating a thin tungsten wire to temperatures of around 2,700 degrees Celsius.

As Kyle Pitsor, vice president for government relations at the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, explains, CFLs are 75 percent more efficient and LEDs 85 percent more efficient than a traditional incandescent light bulb.

There are now power - saving substitutions for traditional incandescent bulbs as well as LEDs, CFLs and halogens, a type of incandescent with a tungsten filament.

For perspective, that's the same power as a standard incandescent lightbulb in your living room.

Because LEDs do not emit heat as infrared radiation like incandescent or fluorescent bulbs do, it must be removed from the device by conduction or convection.

Since the last Academies report in 2013 that assessed the state of solid - state lighting — which uses diodes, a semiconductor technology, as an alternative light source to incandescent bulbs — the annual residential installation of LED bulbs has increased sixfold between 2012 and 2014, from 13 million to 78 million.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Materials • One half of a lemon (use caution when cutting) • One half teaspoon of water • Small bowl • Spoon • White paper • Q - tips • A lamp with a lightbulb that puts off a lot of heat, such as a 100 - watt incandescent bulb or another heat source, such as a radiator • Optional: Pencil (to write a decoy message on your paper) Preparation • Squeeze the juice of your lemon half into the bowl.

Materials consumption is also diminished as LEDs last up to 100,000 hours, compared to 1,000 for incandescent bulbs and 10,000 hours for fluorescent lights.

Most Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), which are now widely used as a source of outdoor light because they are more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, emit a huge quantity of blue - white light.

If all American households changed from traditional incandescent light bulbs to LED, CFL, or halogen incandescents, the decrease in pollution would be the same as removing a whopping 1.3 million cars from the road.

I already have Dim Light, Incandescent Light (limited edition) and Radiant Light in smaller versions as part of the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette.

Now the rebirth For some time now, LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) have been replacing incandescent bulbs as original equipment on new vehicles.

With a storyline that coils around and around itself until viewers may have trouble breathing, «Wish You Were Here» is the incandescent feature debut of helmer Kieran Darcy - Smith, and a rare kind of showcase for leads Joel Edgerton («Warrior») and co-writer Felicity Price as a couple whose South Asian vacation comes back to haunt them.

As the Tonya of Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya, Robbie dons the fluffy bangs and the»90s fashions and then proceeds to tear her way, ravenous and incandescent, through a rise from poverty and fall from grace that's portrayed as both epic and ridiculouAs the Tonya of Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya, Robbie dons the fluffy bangs and the»90s fashions and then proceeds to tear her way, ravenous and incandescent, through a rise from poverty and fall from grace that's portrayed as both epic and ridiculouas both epic and ridiculous.

Florence Pugh is incandescent as a Victorian - era neglected farm wife, but motivation goes out the window once she goes on a rampage

Suffering the most, the incandescent (literally, it so happens in this case) Cate Blanchett has her performance as the Elven queen, Galadriel, almost entirely obscured by sound effects, lighting, and visual pyrotechnics that seem only to underscore a point («the ring is evil») that has been made a dozen times previous.

On the contrary, Stardust is extremely well - made despite an opening half - hour that boasts of a few too many long establishing shots, directed with real snap by Guy Ritchie's former producer Matthew Vaughn (who did the same with Layer Cake) and executed by a stellar cast that includes a literally incandescent Claire Danes as a fallen star named Yvaine and Michelle Pfeiffer as a hideous bitch goddess, which, given that Stardust follows on the heels of Hairspray, appears to be the vehicle of her late - career comeback.