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Article: Berkeley Lab Scientist Proposes Solution to Reduce Developing World's Expensive, Polluting Fuel-Based Lighting.
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- May 27, 2005
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Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
BERKELEY, Calif., May 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The use of highly-efficient, cost-effective white light-emitting diodes as a replacement for inefficient, polluting kerosene lamps common in the developing world, could potentially save tens of billions of dollars per year worldwide, according to a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Evan Mills, of Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division, notes in an article in the May 27, 2005 issue of the journal Science that more than 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity, and many ...