http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/ Engadget Comments for Luxim wants to brighten your block with ultra-powerful plasma lightbulbs 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/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Apr 12th 2008 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/What's that supposed to mean? :P]]>Mar 18th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
Clearly kelvin is a scale, and so has degrees.
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Of course, the problem here is that these bulbs are ridiculously bright and can blind oncoming drivers unless the car also features an auto-dimmer - which senses oncoming cars and dims the beams to prevent blinding.

I would like to see Plasma and HID become the new standard because they are environmentaly friendly and conserve less power, but these damn things are just so bright the only practical uses right now are flashlights, work areas and automotives. You don't want these inside the house.]]>Mar 18th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
In case you're not being sarcastic... it's a pretty big leap to say that just because there is a 250W lamp, the same technology would work in 25W package.

And besides, there are already household lamps available that provide the lumen output of a 40W incandescent with a 10W lamp... compact fluorescent.]]>Mar 18th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution]]>Mar 18th 2008 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
...or do you have something against efficiency? ]]>Mar 18th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
Efficiency's great and all, but reduction in energy use is also a way to help the environment.

Just saying. ]]>Mar 18th 2008 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
If it was in your house you'd need a decent sized ballast to get it going like the waning flourescent tubes your offices.]]>Mar 18th 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/]]>Mar 18th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/]]>Mar 19th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/]]>Mar 19th 2008 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
Did I pull miss that one? When did 400 watt LEDs come out?!]]>Mar 18th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
What I'm curious about is the CRI. Historically, the light sources producing the most lumens per watt have less than impressive color rendering. Low pressure sodium can approach 200 lpw, but the CRI is *zero*, everything looks black & orange.]]>Mar 18th 2008 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/

]]>Mar 19th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 18th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/
dude]]>Mar 18th 2008 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/ "which heats the gas into plasma and produces light, allowing a sizable chunk of energy to become light rather than heat"
Then:
"Inside the mint-sized bulb the gas reaches 6000-degrees Kelvin -- or about the surface temperature of the Sun"

Those statements seem to conflict a bit.
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However, this plasma bulb sounds like it could give WHITE LED's a run for their money, as far as more general illumination is concerned.

White LED's are some of the worst-looking white light available, having a sickly blueish color cast and uneven color around the fringes of the beam. The spectrum they give off isn't even as nice looking as the worst compact fluorescents, which aren't as nice as regular incandescents, which in turn aren't as pleasant as a quartz halogen. Getting a white LED to be real-world efficient, as bright as a 60W incand. bulb, affordable, AND a really nice color is turning out to be a Holy Grail that may not be possible. ]]>Mar 19th 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/Mar 20th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/luxim-wants-to-brighten-your-block-with-ultra-powerful-plasma-li/May 7th 2008 1:12PM