Article about LED Lightbulb: Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize

C4LED

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How about this?

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"Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/technology/25bulb.html?_r=1&hp

Philips has developed an LED light bulb that uses one-sixth the energy of a standard 60-watt incandescent bulb.

The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first company that figures out how to do it.

That company could be Philips, the Dutch electronics giant. The company announced on Thursday that it had submitted the first entry for the L Prize, an Energy Department contest that will award up to $10 million to the first person or group to create a new energy-sipping version of the most popular type of light bulb used in America.

As the first entrant, Philips will win the prize if its claims hold up. Testing of the Philips lamp will take close to a year to complete as the department independently evaluates the company's claims."
 

BeachBoy

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The Energy Department will also award $5 million to the creator of an LED reflector lamp (no entries have yet been made) and a new, "21st-century lamp," the specifications of which are yet to be defined.

humm... wonder what this one is about
 
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