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Technology Investing: Profit from the LED lightbulb

Posted March 10, 2008

“Nobody’s worried about having to live on fired-up whale lard. And nobody looks to lights for an investment idea, either. Well, let’s go ahead and change that.” — Charles Delvalle

by Charles Delvalle, Investor’s Daily Edge

Baltimore – (TFN): Every day, we’re surrounded by lights.

We wake up to them … operate all day around them … and turn them off before we go to sleep at night.

And the honest truth is we take lights for granted. Nobody’s worried about having to live on fired-up whale lard. And nobody looks to lights for an investment idea, either.

Well, let’s go ahead and change that. Because as you’ll find out, lights can be one of the most profitable investment ideas you’ll see in the next few years.

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How can lights be profitable, you might ask? It’s all about technology. And right now, the technology that lights up our homes has come a long way since the Edison days.

To make a case for light, let me clue you in on a little known fact: According to Forbes, lighting up the world takes up one-eighth of all electric power!

In fact, U.S. lighting alone uses half as much energy as is used by all cars on American roads.

So it’s clear that if you can make the light bulb more efficient, energy usage across the U.S. will go down. To that effect, Congress has made the decision to mandate a switch from the old, inefficient incandescent light bulb over to fluorescents.

To give you an idea of how much more efficient fluorescents are, think of it like this: incandescent bulbs yield about 15 lumens (amount of light) per watt. Fluorescents, on the other hand, yield 80 lumens per watt.

But I’m not here today to tell you there’s a bull market in fluorescent bulbs. Quite the contrary, the bull market is in the technology set to replace the fluorescent bulb. Read on to learn how you can profit from LED, the next big lighting revolution.

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