LED Lighting Miracle: ‘One Of The Fastest Technology Shifts In Human History’

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First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are sweeping the lighting market. By 2025, LED lighting is expected to lower America’s electricity bill $20 billion a year and our CO2 emissions 100 million tons a year. Here’s how that happened.

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