The bulb consumes less than 10 watts while boasting an output of more than 800 lumens.
Made by Dutch electronics giant Philips, the bulb swaps filaments for light-emitting diodes to provide illumination.
If the bulb is less used the payback is longer but the ROI is still good.
When prices fall, the bulb will dim and the country could be plunged back into darkness.
Until then, Russia must hope that oil prices stay high enough to keep the bulb burning.
Buyers who prefer to order by the bulb may choose a fiery Chinese Purple or a chili-pepper-hot Metechi.
In rigorous testing, the Energy Department said, the bulb had a useful lifetime of more than 25, 000 hours.
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One of the main challenges faced by LED lighting manufacturers is dealing with waste heat produced by the bulb.
Hardnecks, which grow mostly in the eastern U.S., are named for the rigid stem at the core of the bulb.
This method removes the ramps' raw onion flavor and tenderizes the bulb, which is tough to bite into when uncooked.
Is the bulb here--finally--lighting above above the heads of the Obama Administration?
The bulb, which is expected to come out before June, will have an embedded chip and works with a gateway box that hooks into a router.
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Pulsars are a special type of neutron star that rotates rapidly, emitting a beam of high-energy that spins much like the bulb in a lighthouse.
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The bulb triumphed in the Bright Tomorrow competition run by the US Department of Energy that aimed to find an energy efficient alternative to the 60-watt incandescent light bulb.
But when you crawl into the chair and reach up to turn on the lamp, you make two discoveries: The bulb in the lamp is more suited as a night light than a reading light.
Check out the cost of the bulb from the manufacture (do not ask the salesman) and if the cost of the service plan is less then one bulb, buy at least a short two-year warranty.
Some of the new models for 2011 are really tiny, like the bulb-shaped Fiat 500, which will be sold by Chrysler dealers early next year, and the Scion IQ, a teeny two-door designed for urban dwellers.
The remotes also enable the bulb function for long shutter applications, as well as functions of the camera that are affected by a half-press of the shutter, including the engagement of the AF system or starting and stopping video capture.
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Norman Mailer too is on there, even though he brings in a half-hooker doll who dismantles the bulb because there is too much light on their table, which Elaine is not having because these are her five-dollar fixtures from way back, and she tells her to get her ass out and never again to screw around with her light bulbs, which she never does.
As we have said, he introduced to the world the light bulb, the phonograph, and the X-ray.
" And: "I'll tell you, I wasn't the brightest bulb in the cupboard.
From fire and the wheel down to the light bulb and the iPad, we mark the march of history by the steady beat of transformative innovations.
Lord knows I am not the smartest person in the world, the brightest bulb, the sharpest knife or any other euphemism you want to trot out connoting intelligence.
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After cracking the code, Buck set out to trace the way connections extend from the olfactory bulb into the olfactory cortex, the part of the brain that processes odor signals.
Incandescent bulb, still the most popular bulb with consumers in the U.S., typically only use 10 percent of the power fed into them to create light.
Here, each July, at harvest time, the Gilroy Garlic Festival kicks off--the biggest bulb bash in the world.
Cue the light bulb moment and the start of a route to responsibility.
So suddenly, the light bulb went off with the arrival of home video.
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With time, neuroscience research uncovered two parts of the brain that evidence neurogenesis: the hippocampus, associated with memory formation, and the olfactory bulb, associated with the sense of smell.
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