http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/ Engadget Comments for Quantum dots may provide lighting http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/
I can't wait for the neon future to arrive.


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A: None. That's a hardware problem.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/
A: Just the one.

No. Stop it. Really - ha ha . . . . it comes naturally, it really does. Sit down, please etc etc.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/
Although it does sort of smell of perpetual motion -- it sounds almost as though they're getting more energy out (in the form of visible light) than they're putting in. I'll need to see this before I believe it. It's a legitimate team at a real university, sure, but so were Pons and Fleischman.

Assuming there's something to it, they may have invented the perfect light bulb. LEDs are very long-lived and very efficient, and if a single LED can produce bright white light instead of the pale blue that's the best they can manage now, it's the lighting of the future.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/Dec 19th 2005 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/24/quantum-dots-may-provide-lighting/
more than 60 watts of light from a single blue led is just about as possible as perpetual motion or time travel...

if any of these "journalists" had bothered to read the original release from Vanderbilt, they would report the scientists claim that leds produce on average twice as much light per watt of energy consumed. Now, if these researchers had actually done something useful and invented a sixty watt LED, and then covered it with some white paint... that would be newsworthy.
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