Substantial cost savings can be achieved by replacing traditional lighting with efficient LED lights as shown in this example based on a 40w Bulb with 24 hour usage including hardware and air conditioning savings.

Note: Based on energy cost of $0.1879 KwH, 24 hours per day for one year. FT 40W, IB 100W, LED 15W

With a fluorescent bulb, around 8 watts of electricity is converted into heat requiring the same amount of energy to cool. Depending on the climate this could add up to sustantial addtional costs for each fluorescent tube compared to LED lighting.

Production of fluorescent lighting results in an annual US consumption of 32 tons of mercury. The use of mercury free LED technologies has the potential to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, reduce acid rain and global warming and well as a sizable reduction in electrical power plants.

LED technology is constantly improving with new innovations and breakthroughs. It's anticipated that over the next 10 years LED technology will achieve efficiencies 12 times greater than incandescent and 2 times greater than fluorescent with device lifetimes 100 to 1000 times greater than their glass cousins.

Consider the amount of resources currently consumed by traditional lighting and the LED benefits become crystal clear:

• 21% of all energy goes to lighting.
• 30% of all electricity is consumed by lighting.
• 32 tons of mercury is used to make high efficiency fluorescent lighting.

By reducing the dependency on natural resources, LED technologies have the potential for tremendous environmental benefits including:

• Reduction of $125 billion spending on electricity over the period 2005-2025
• 50% reduction in electricity use for lighting
• 30% reduction in total electricity production saving 3.5 quadrillion BTUs

The combined benefits have the potential to eliminate approximately 115 million metric tons of carbon emissions and over 1 million tons in combined nitrous and sulfur dioxide emissions annually.