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Friday, June 15, 2007
1:56:00 PM EDT
Feeling Happy
I know what you're thinking.... how in the world can a light bulb be friendly? I understand how fixtures can be sky friendly by reigning in the light created by a light bulb, but a sky friendly light bulb? Well... that was my first thought, too.
Interestingly, there are a pair of sky friendly light bulbs recently introduced by Bulbrite. The bulbs, which are energy efficient compact fluorescents, come with their own 'light shades'. These integral light shades control the direction that the light they emit can travel. They come in two flavors, universal (pictured left) and base-up (pictured right). Base up is similar to some existing light shades, with the exception that it comes with its own bulb. This fits in any fixture where the bulb screws up into the base... hence 'base-up'. Universal can go in these types of fixtures as well, but its really designed to go into a fixture where the bulb screws down into the socket. These types of lights have prior to this time, been impossible to shade. The shade does not make this 100% night sky friendly, but it does contain much of the light, and is a huge improvement considering that lights that make use of this could not be controlled at all... leaving them sending most of the light they emitted up into the night sky. With the Universal light shade in place, now, even these horribly performing fixtures are tolerable.
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1:56:00 PM EDT
Feeling Happy
Sky Friendly Light Bulbs?
I know what you're thinking.... how in the world can a light bulb be friendly? I understand how fixtures can be sky friendly by reigning in the light created by a light bulb, but a sky friendly light bulb? Well... that was my first thought, too.Interestingly, there are a pair of sky friendly light bulbs recently introduced by Bulbrite. The bulbs, which are energy efficient compact fluorescents, come with their own 'light shades'. These integral light shades control the direction that the light they emit can travel. They come in two flavors, universal (pictured left) and base-up (pictured right). Base up is similar to some existing light shades, with the exception that it comes with its own bulb. This fits in any fixture where the bulb screws up into the base... hence 'base-up'. Universal can go in these types of fixtures as well, but its really designed to go into a fixture where the bulb screws down into the socket. These types of lights have prior to this time, been impossible to shade. The shade does not make this 100% night sky friendly, but it does contain much of the light, and is a huge improvement considering that lights that make use of this could not be controlled at all... leaving them sending most of the light they emitted up into the night sky. With the Universal light shade in place, now, even these horribly performing fixtures are tolerable.
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