Sunday, May 18, 2008

Let There Be LEDs!, High-Tech Artificial Light Has Become More Colorful, Efficient, and Now Bendable - CBS News

Let There Be LEDs!, High-Tech Artificial Light Has Become More Colorful, Efficient, and Now Bendable - CBS News: "In the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, LEDs are changing lives. An organization called the Portable Light Project has provided villagers with ingenious LED-lit reflectors. Flexible solar panels are sewn onto one side of a piece of fabric.

Sheila Kennedy is a Boston architect, whose firm, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, developed the units.

'You simply take this material, put it out in the sun for about 2 1/2 or 3 hours, it harvests the sunlight, turns it into electricity,' Kennedy said, 'and then you can use that electricity for about six or seven hours at night.'"

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