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A NEW BULB ON THE BLOCK
imothy D. Sands, at left, director of Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park, and graduate student Mark Oliver, operate a "reactor" in work aimed at perfecting solid-state lighting, a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. Purdue researchers have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of the lighting technology, called light-emitting diodes. (Photo by David Umberger, courtesy of Purdue News Service)
Unless you like to live by candlelight, you have to buy lightbulbs. But the options out there aren't that great. Jessi Ziegler reports how all that might change soon:
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Producer: Jessi Ziegler
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Running Time: :47