{"id":18964,"date":"2013-02-09T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18964"},"modified":"2013-02-09T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:51:13","slug":"crowdfunding-the-nanolight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/crowdfunding-the-nanolight\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdfunding the NanoLight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cassandra Khaw at <em>TechHive<\/em> on the attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/2026861\/the-led-nanolight-may-be-the-most-efficient-lightbulb-yet.html#tk.nl_geektech\" target=\"_blank\">crowdfund a new LED light<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zapt2.staticworld.net\/images\/article\/2013\/02\/386a2beb220d1fbfd1ea84b9fdd4b281_large-100023958-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NanoLight-prototype.jpg\" alt=\"NanoLight prototype\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NanoLight-prototype.jpg 580w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NanoLight-prototype-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NanoLight-prototype-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Part lightbulb, part spaceship component, the LED NanoLight (funding through March 8) is being touted as the world\u2019s most energy efficient lightbulb.<\/p>\n<p>Using just 12 watts of electricity, the NanoLight should generate 1600 lumens, the equivalent of a 100-watt lightbulb. The estimated cost of running a NanoLight (for three hours a day) is less than $2 a year, and the bulb is expected to last 25 to 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from looking rather stellar and being economical with the usage of power, the NanoLight also differs from the average LED lightbulb in that it\u2019s capable of emulating the omnidirectional nature of your classic lightbulb\u2014but cool enough not to mimic its habit of scorching your flesh if you make the mistake of touching it when it\u2019s been on for a while. And unlike most compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs, the NanoLight provides full brightness as soon as you turn it on. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassandra Khaw at TechHive on the attempt to crowdfund a new LED light: Part lightbulb, part spaceship component, the LED NanoLight (funding through March 8) is being touted as the world\u2019s most energy efficient lightbulb. Using just 12 watts of electricity, the NanoLight should generate 1600 lumens, the equivalent of a 100-watt lightbulb. The estimated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[707,174],"class_list":["post-18964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4VS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18966,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions\/18966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}