The Department of Energy’s (DOE) latest Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) revealed a majority of U.S. homes used more than one type of lamp, mainly a mix of incandescent and compact fluorescent. Adoption of LED lighting was increasing, however, with 29 percent of households reporting they’d installed at least one LED lamp. Click to learn more about the 2015 RECS.
March 2018
Light Stored as Sound for First Time
Researchers at the University of Sydney have successfully transferred data carried on light waves into sound waves in a microchip. Why is this important? Shifting from optical to acoustical and back inside a chip is considered a building block of creating computers that use photons instead of electrons to move data.
Li-Fi 100 Times Faster than Wi-Fi
An article recently published in the IEEE’s The Institute reports Li-Fi can pass data at 10 GB per second, about 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. According to Global Market Insights, Li-Fi is predicted to become a $75 billion technology by 2023.
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