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Article: A New Kind of Illumination That Burns Brightly, but Not Out
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 24, 1994
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The Department of Energy is looking at the future in a whole
new light.
Forget incandescent bulbs, fluorescent tubes and even metal
halide lamps, says Lee Anderson, DOE's program manager for lighting
research. Much of tomorrow's illumination, he and others believe,
will come from electrodeless devices that have no parts to burn out
- and that produce the kind of intensely white light suitable to the
increasingly detailed work done in high-tech industry. "American
workers need better lighting," Anderson said, "not only for
attention to detail in microcircuits and small mechanisms, but in
quality control."
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