Fluorescent lighting has long been recognized for its energy savings benefits. Economic factors, such as rising energy costs, coupled with increased consumer environmental awareness over such issues ...

Signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury have agreed to ban the manufacture, import and export of straight tube ...

For years, consumers have been urged to switch to CFLs, or compact fluorescent lights, which use about one-quarter of the electricity of incandescent bulbs. But unknown to many, CFLs come with a ...

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Even though the transition to LED lighting is well under way, there are lots of TV stations that still depend on studio fluorescent lights. I know this, in part, because I helped put them up with ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued new energy standards for general-service fluorescent lamps. Craig DiLouie, host and author of the LightNOW blog (www.lightnowblog.com) posted his ...

“Efficiency” continues to be the buzzword in the lighting industry, and as its use continues to grow, the lamps used to meet its demands continue to get smaller. The smaller-is-better trend has been ...

Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are replacing incandescent light bulbs at a rapid rate due to their tremendous energy savings and longer lifetime. Additional energy savings can be achieved by dimming ...

The 12V drivers for fluorescent lamps are tricky, because of the compromise between a good operating efficiency and the ability to start the lamp. The demands are in contradiction. Here are 7 starting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WTVO) — Soon Illinoisans will no longer be able to buy fluorescent light as a result of the Clean Lighting Act. The main goal of ...