The lamp is intended for lighting of streets, roads, squares, warehouses and manufactures. Power consumption– 220 V-40W. It is substitution for mercury lamps Philips HPL-N. It is irreplaceable in places, where energy saving and high reliability is needed. This lamp does not have stroboscopic effect, light power is not changed over the voltage range. Time of delay is 1 sec.
USS-36 is made on the base of LEDs of Japanese company NICHIA, with built-in microprocessor-based power-supply. The housing of this streetlight lamp is made on aluminum, window is made on optical polycarbonate. The searchlight is fixed to any legs with tube diameter till 55 meters.
All above-mentioned characteristics allows to get the highest reliability of streetlight LED lamp USS-36
Height(m)|lightness/m per axle, LUX| light square m 1________________ 660 ________________10
2________________165__________________ 40
4________________41.3__________________ 150
6________________18.3__________________ 340
8________________10.3__________________ 610
10________________6.6__________________ 945
12________________4.6_________________ 1360
Time operation LEDs lamp,in years 23* Light flux, Lm 2160 Angle of light emission, 2Ô 0.5 degree 120** Voltage, V 160-264 Power consumption, W 36 Emission band sunny white Guarantee period, month 24 Overall dimensions, mm 420*175*65 Weight not more, kg 5.0 Moisture protection, IP not less 67 Environment temperature from –60ºC to +40ºC
Here's an example of an office building that has been converted to 100% LED light. The new bulbs consume 48% less energy than those they replaced (mostly fluorescents lights). The workplace in question is the headquarters of Cree, a company in North Carolina that specializes solid-state LED lights. The parking lots, entryways, lobby and conference rooms at Cree’s headquarters are now lit by eco-effective XLamp LEDs. Even the high-pressure sodium parking lights and spotlights were converted to LED lights.
Cree wanted to demonstrate that LED lights are a viable option today for businesses and residences. The company claims that their lights render the same type of light that is produced by fluorescents or incandescents. It looks like the LEDs in the photo above are producing a full-spectrum light.
When LEDs replace incandescent bulbs, there is also the added advantage of reducing AC requirements in the summer.
The only method of lighting more energy efficient than LEDs is daylighting (e.g. through the use of sun tubes, for example
The lamp is intended for lighting of low traffic streets, roads, squares, warehouses and manufactures. Power consumption– 220 V-20W. It is irreplaceable in places, where energy saving and high reliability is needed. This lamp does not have stroboscopic effect, light power is not changed over the voltage range. Time of delay is 1 sec.
USS-18 is made on the base of LEDs of Japanese company NICHIA, with built-in microprocessor-based power-supply. The housing of this streetlight lamp is made on aluminum, window is made on optical polycarbonate. The searchlight is fixed to any legs with tube diameter till 55 meters. All above-mentioned characteristics allows to get the highest reliability of streetlight LED lamp USS-18
Technical characteristics Time operation LEDs lamp, years 23* Light flux, Lm 1080 Angle of light emission, 2Ô 0.5 degree 120** Voltage, V 120-264 Power consumption, W 18 Emission band sunny white Guarantee period, month 24 Overall dimensions, mm 210*175*65 Weight not more, kg 3.0 Moisture protection, IP not less 67 Environment temperature from –60ºC to +40ºC
Microbial Fuel Cells The other end of solar energy?
As the search for fuel cells goes on, many environmentalists give all their attention to solar energy, the possibilities involving photosynthesis and the microbial world. What about where there is no solar energy directly available, such as below the sea?
For more than 30 years, research has tried to develop a microbial fuel cell that digests wastes, instantly producing electricity. Just take a look at Dr. Emitt Browns Time Machine in Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox; just after he comes back from his trip 30 years into the future; he just drops a banana peel out of the garbage into the Delorians microbial fuel cell chamber, and voom… into the sky.
That is the kind of energy conversion researchers desire from microbial fuel cells, but it is still far away in the distant (evolutionary and genetic) future. At present this conversion takes about a week at its fastest rate.
The biggest challenge is getting what are being called Geobacters, to be far more aggressive in their microbial digestion in anaerobic environments such as underground and undersea waste products, which means genetic engineering on a nanite-scale of 2 to 3 microns at most.
More than 30 species of these iron breathers used in Microbial Fuel Cells are being tested and developed at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst by Dr. Derek R. Lovley (American) and Dr. Swades Chaudhuri (Indian).
Their Microbial Fuel Cells are so far removed from the direct line of Solar Energy that it actually makes one wonder about the implications on our future methods of harnessing energy.
In recent years UMASS Environmental Biotechnology Center has put in a lot of research into the Geobacter Project. The word Geobacter (geological bacteria) refers to anaerobic micro-organisms that in most cases thrive under extremely high temperatures, far above those temperatures commonly inhabited by more complex organisms.
We have found that dissimilatory metal-reducing microorganisms, such as Geobacter and Rhodoferax species, have the novel ability to directly transfer electrons to the surface of electrodes.
The word Geobacter seems more for quick thirty-second media bites rather than for scientific researchers accustomed to big language, because the concept is so easy to grasp.
When regular folks hear the word Geobacter nowadays, it indicates to their minds eye a battery that generates electricity from deep sea composting micro-organisms that just love to break down sugars, producing needed CO2 for underwater plants. It has this resilient ecological tone while it cleans up oil spills over time and can even reduce radioactivity in uranium-polluted ground water to regulation levels within a week according to Dr. Lovley in a recent interview done on Massachusetts Commonwealth Journal radio show.
The word Geobacter also gives the futurist gist of being able to deposit a sugar cube into the microbial fuel cell of a cellular phone and for those who are addicted to old reruns of Star Trek the Next Generation; it conjures up images of Wesley Crusher accidentally letting loose his artificially intelligent nanite medical-robots that end up taking over the Enterprise.
Geobacters guarantee bigger concepts for those delving in renewable energies and solar power is only the tip of the proverbial flame. Heat is energy, and Geobacters give off the kind of energy that we as a civilization need to charge and propel ever-SMALLER batteries.
That word smaller, is the important end of the renewable energy spectrum. When most people think electricity, especially solar electricity, they think outward and upward to larger scales, Geobacters at present however are going smaller and smaller into the future of nanotechnology rather than in the direction of powering the grid.
While some patents do exist on Microbial Fuel Cells for such things as large as electric lawn mowers or even maybe the size of say a Delorian; at present researchers think smaller every day devices like cell phones or even delicate military and medical technologies are going to be far more efficient with the development of Microbial Fuel Cells for the next century of sustainable energies.
Vulgarly speaking, anywhere the sun doesnt reach, Geobacters generally can. Mainly this is simply because they are natures way of breaking down organic material in anaerobic environments, originally produced either by direct solar energy, along that chain indirectly or simply never even exposed to it as in the case of the deep ocean floor where sunlight is totally absent.
Microbial fuel cells are not merely the micro aspect of renewable and solar the macro, they are naturally the composting and cleaning end of renewable while solar energy is the non-polluting and preventive end.
Hopefully this research will prove worthwhile within the next ten years for consumers. Solar Energy for off the grid living and Microbial Fuel Cells for off the grid comfort and an ever better quality of life. Two sides of one human coin.
MIT engineers have invented what they call a solar concentrator; solar windows for the home.
Solar concentrators contain special dyes that help the windows absorb light differently.
The edges of the windows have energy cells that collect energy from light.
Solar concentrators to be used in solar windows:
The beauty of the above concentrator technology is that it does not need to move the track the sun, it can exist in a window and still harness sunlight efficiently.
According to Discovery Channel.com and Science Magazine, project leader Marc Baldo, claims the solar windows can obtain energy from 40% of the sunlight.
Dr. Baldo also claims that the concentrator can increase the ability of standard photovoltaic (PV) panels by 50%. This is huge, allowing photovoltaics to absorb 80% of the light energy that hits them.
According to MITs website, these windows or the dyes, will be available to the public within the next three years.
Dr. Baldos research team, includes EECS graduate students Michael Currie, Jon Mapel, and Timothy Heidel, and postdoctoral associate Shalom Goffri from the Research Lab of Electronics. They reported their discoveries in the magazine Science in June of 2008.
Thanks to the MIT Solar Concentrator invented by Dr. Baldo and his team, solar powered windows will be even cheaper and will be able to sell back more energy to the grid within the next three year.
Hybrid solar lighting by Sunlight Direct is a bridge between conventional artificial lighting and fiber optics to achieve a healthier indoor environment and greater energy savings, possibly even making our nation up to 30% more self-reliant in electrical energy expenditures alone.
By a bridge, this means that the two systems are fully integrated in a technologically friendly way that has very little initial cost to the consumer or any major modifications to their already existing networks, has very important health advantages and are highly economic with incredible money and energy savings.
With hybrid solar lighting, the light of the sun hits down on a 48 inch parabolic mirror, focuses that light against a mirror that filters UV and IR light and is concentrated through over a 120 fiber optic cables that finally spit through a single spread-light fixture integrated directly into the traditional light fixture (florescent or incandescent) as an additional light (bulb).
Both incandescent lights and fluorescent light fixtures can be modified to usehybrid solar lighting technology. But in either case, the additional fiber optic luminescent is aesthetically pleasing and virtually unnoticeable to the human eye, unless inspected up close.
But the real advantages are in how the two systems play off ofone another; if it is just dawn for example, that reddish hue from the first rays of morning light will penetrate the parabolic system and this will illuminate the fiber optic cables with those exact same hues, color-code per color-code, everything except the UV and IR spectrums (which can be harmful to humans).
During the first morning hours, when the lights are turned on, the electrical lighting system will remain turned up to a low enough level that this natural lighting from the earths sun, can do its job with our biological clocks and wake us up as the saying goes, but still provide ample indoor lighting.
When the sun begins to rise during the day the levels of electrical light being consumed gradually go down, and from the zenith on toward dawn the electrical grid begins to pick up once again, without ever compromising those natural hues that are so essential to our human health.
By the end of the day, those hues of sunset remind those working inside what time it is, and that bedtime is close at hand, thereby creating a more humancycle biologically that is far closer to what Mother Nature originally intended for our species millions of years ago.
This conservation of electrical energy, through hybrid solar lighting would be fascinatingly important for retail stores, as tests have shown that this system can improve sales to up to 40%, while businesses that installed the system noted a 20% increase in employee productivity.
Overall, the United States would find that if everyone switched over to a hybrid solar lighting system, the consumption of electricity could be virtually reduced by 30%!
By the end of 2007, Sunlight Direct expects to have a working consumer model of this elite technology available to the public at large for a reasonable price and guaranteed for at least twenty years.
Hybrid Solar Lighting is making the future of our world a whole lot healthier and bringing the open sky back into our human lives.
The lamp USS-70 is intended for lighting of streets, roads, squares, warehouses and manufactures. Power consumption– 220 V-75W. It is substitution for mercury lamps OSRAM HQL STANDARD. It is irreplaceable in places, where energy saving and high reliability is needed. This lamp does not have stroboscopic effect, light power is not changed over the voltage range. Time of delay is 1 sec. USS-70 is made on the base of LEDs of Japanese company NICHIA, with 3 free power supplies. The housing of this streetlight lamp is made on aluminum, window is made on optical polycarbonate. The searchlight is fixed to any legs with tube diameter till 55 meters. All above-mentioned characteristics allows to get the highest reliability of streetlight LED lamp USS-70
The lamp USS-150M is intended for lighting of streets, roads, tunnels, petrol stations, squares, warehouses, stocks and manufactures. Power consumption– 220 V -150 W. It is substitution for mercury lamps DRL-400.
It is irreplaceable in places, where energy saving and high reliability is needed, under higher vibration, moisture. The lamp has not stroboscopic effect, light power does not change during power band. Operation time is les then 1 second.
Lamp USS-150М is made on the base of LEDs of Japanese company NICHIA, with 6 independent power supplies. The housing of this streetlight lamp is made on aluminum, window is made on optical polycarbonate. The searchlight is fixed to any legs with tube diameter till 50 meters. By request these lamps can be completed by wall of ceiling binding. As optional, they can be completed by light sensors for automatic on/off for sunset/sunrise.
Streetlight LED lamps extra service is not necessary during it’s life time (more then 20 years), only periodical washing by water sheet.
Height of fixture, meters Lightness per axle, LUX for USS-150 4...................... 221 6..................... .98.4 8..................... .55.4 10......................35.4 12......................24.6
