lighting – TechConnect Briefs

Complex Adaptive Systems – Energy Metrologies for Nanobiomaterials in Artificial Photosynthesis

Greer M., Lockheed Martin, US

Municipal street and public space lighting serve critical safety and security functions but their associated costs can be one of the more significant items in O&M budgets. While the concept of Bio LED trees have [...]

High Efficiency Nanofiber Reflectors for Lighting Applications

Lynn Davis J., RTI International, US

Nanofibers are an advanced optical media that can deliver extremely high reflectance values over large areas. The materials are made in high volumes in a roll-to-roll process using known spinning technologies. Nanofiber reflectors are particularly [...]

High Efficiency Nanofiber Reflectors for Lighting Applications

Lynn Davis J., RTI International, US

Nanofibers are an advanced optical media that can deliver extremely high reflectance values over large areas. The materials are made in high volumes in a roll-to-roll process using known spinning technologies. Nanofiber reflectors are particularly [...]

Complex Adaptive Systems – Energy Metrologies for Nanobiomaterials in Artificial Photosynthesis

Greer M., Lockheed Martin, US

Municipal street and public space lighting serve critical safety and security functions but their associated costs can be one of the more significant items in O&M budgets. While the concept of Bio LED trees have [...]

Technologies for Deep Reductions in Military Operational Energy Use

Brown R., Sharp T., Lindsey M., Kiser S., Andrews K., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US

The U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) has begun a research program for Transformative Reductions in Operational Energy Consumption (TROPEC), which will identify, refine and validate technologies for reducing energy use in expeditionary military outposts. The primary [...]

Technologies for Deep Reductions in Military Operational Energy Use

Brown R., Sharp T., Lindsey M., Kiser S., Andrews K., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US

The U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) has begun a research program for Transformative Reductions in Operational Energy Consumption (TROPEC), which will identify, refine and validate technologies for reducing energy use in expeditionary military outposts. The primary [...]

Next Gen Large Area Lighting: HIDs, Robotics and Energy Efficiency

Davis G., Lumetric, US

Lumetric has reinvented lighting for large areas, combining advanced energy control features with high output lamps to create the brightest, most energy-efficient lighting solution, generations ahead of the alternatives. Simple to install and easy to [...]

Passive Solar Design of Buildings – a Case Study

Kumar S., Bansal M., GZS College of Engineering & Technology, IN

Passive solar technologies are means of using sunlight for useful energy without use of active mechanical systems, as contrasted to active solar techniques. Such technologies convert sunlight into usable heat in the form of water, [...]

Permanent Distributed Load Reduction — A low-cost grid capacity solution

Sandersen J., Orion Energy Systems, US

The wholesale changeover of inefficient lighting can have a dramatic and sustainable impact on the nation’s stressed electric grid through permanent distributed load reductions, or PDLR. PDLR requires the deployment of energy-efficient technology at the [...]

Molecular Building Blocks for Efficient Solid State Lighting

Burrows P.E., Sapochak L.S., Pacific Northwest National laboratory, US

General illumination consumes 22% of the electricity generated in the U.S. This huge proportion is partly due to the ubiquity of artificial lighting but also the inefficiency of converting electrical energy to light. Incandescent lightbulbs [...]