Not being a rocket scientist, as best as I can tell the LED is here to stay, it's just where the energy is derived from.
So with all things being equal it seems that same output is being explored with a lot less energy required.
Say 100 watt bulb illumination with 1/2 the energy required of the current LED technology. Or as little as a third of the watts to drive a bulb (if you were) as the cfl or led could be available at your local big box store as soon as next year.
But what I was getting at in general was that when those emitters can be had for say...$6-8 each or say a 6 pack for $20...that's when it'll become as viable to flashlights as the LED was back when folks had a choice between a typical 6p or the new LED model.
And that's when all you wiz-kids will figure out how to drive those new techs to their max and end up with a lot more lumens...then when heat becomes an issue...you know it will then too...maybe by then the heat output will be part of the energy source.
In addition flexible emitter strips are also just around the corner. Can you imagine someone like Vihn with an LED emitter that can be shaped?
A Vihn tweaked flexible emitter with a McCliesch reflector?
And when Mr. Malkoff sinks his teeth into it...
No telling what the US military is working on that we don't know about. Something tells me they aren't spending most of their time in the space station growing zero gravity tomatoes or playing poker all day...
So with all things being equal it seems that same output is being explored with a lot less energy required.
Say 100 watt bulb illumination with 1/2 the energy required of the current LED technology. Or as little as a third of the watts to drive a bulb (if you were) as the cfl or led could be available at your local big box store as soon as next year.
But what I was getting at in general was that when those emitters can be had for say...$6-8 each or say a 6 pack for $20...that's when it'll become as viable to flashlights as the LED was back when folks had a choice between a typical 6p or the new LED model.
And that's when all you wiz-kids will figure out how to drive those new techs to their max and end up with a lot more lumens...then when heat becomes an issue...you know it will then too...maybe by then the heat output will be part of the energy source.
In addition flexible emitter strips are also just around the corner. Can you imagine someone like Vihn with an LED emitter that can be shaped?
A Vihn tweaked flexible emitter with a McCliesch reflector?
And when Mr. Malkoff sinks his teeth into it...
No telling what the US military is working on that we don't know about. Something tells me they aren't spending most of their time in the space station growing zero gravity tomatoes or playing poker all day...
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