Oconee Democrats latest fourth Sunday program
As Georgia residents suffer through a record heat wave, everyone needs
to think about how to cut down on energy usage to prevent brown-outs and
to avoid the need for building more power plants. Ordinary light bulbs,
for example, waste a lot of energy as heat, and that heat makes our air
conditioning work harder. The basic design of the incandescent bulb has
changed very little since Thomas Edison’s day.
As the need for energy efficiency becomes more urgent because of rising
energy costs and the threat of global climate change, one technology is
looking especially bright: LED lighting. LED, which stands for
light-emitting diode, leapfrogs even compact fluorescents in its
efficiency. LED lights are expensive upfront, but they are vastly more
efficient, are cooler, contain no mercury, and last up to a whopping
100,000 hours.
The Oconee County Democrats are sponsoring a free presentation about
this promising new technology on Sunday, August 26, at 7 PM at the
Oconee County Library on Experiment Station Road in Watkinsville.
Dwight McMillan, president of Logical Lighting in Atlanta, will show the
wide variety of lighting devices now available in LED. He will discuss
some surprising applications and impressive energy savings where the
technology is in use today, such as in stoplights, accent and outdoor
lighting in homes and businesses, Christmas lighting, and truck running
lights. He will also address the disadvantages that make the available
technology less suitable in some situations. McMillan is evangelical
about teaching people about the energy-savings potential to protect the
environment because lighting makes up such a large percentage of energy
use in the United States – and around the world. Wasteful lighting
wastes energy.
Becky Vaughn, Chair of the Oconee County Democrats, said of the
presentation: "We want to bring information about developments in
science and technology to the people of Oconee County. Adopting
technologies that are energy efficient in our businesses, homes, and in
government buildings will cut back on our reliance on oil from unstable
and hostile regions of the world and will allow us to avoid building
more high-polluting coal-based or nuclear power plants. Also, LEDs
represent one of the tangible ways we can be better stewards of the
environment and save money, too.”
to think about how to cut down on energy usage to prevent brown-outs and
to avoid the need for building more power plants. Ordinary light bulbs,
for example, waste a lot of energy as heat, and that heat makes our air
conditioning work harder. The basic design of the incandescent bulb has
changed very little since Thomas Edison’s day.
As the need for energy efficiency becomes more urgent because of rising
energy costs and the threat of global climate change, one technology is
looking especially bright: LED lighting. LED, which stands for
light-emitting diode, leapfrogs even compact fluorescents in its
efficiency. LED lights are expensive upfront, but they are vastly more
efficient, are cooler, contain no mercury, and last up to a whopping
100,000 hours.
The Oconee County Democrats are sponsoring a free presentation about
this promising new technology on Sunday, August 26, at 7 PM at the
Oconee County Library on Experiment Station Road in Watkinsville.
Dwight McMillan, president of Logical Lighting in Atlanta, will show the
wide variety of lighting devices now available in LED. He will discuss
some surprising applications and impressive energy savings where the
technology is in use today, such as in stoplights, accent and outdoor
lighting in homes and businesses, Christmas lighting, and truck running
lights. He will also address the disadvantages that make the available
technology less suitable in some situations. McMillan is evangelical
about teaching people about the energy-savings potential to protect the
environment because lighting makes up such a large percentage of energy
use in the United States – and around the world. Wasteful lighting
wastes energy.
Becky Vaughn, Chair of the Oconee County Democrats, said of the
presentation: "We want to bring information about developments in
science and technology to the people of Oconee County. Adopting
technologies that are energy efficient in our businesses, homes, and in
government buildings will cut back on our reliance on oil from unstable
and hostile regions of the world and will allow us to avoid building
more high-polluting coal-based or nuclear power plants. Also, LEDs
represent one of the tangible ways we can be better stewards of the
environment and save money, too.”
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