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Smart Bulbs.(Brief article)

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Byline: Jessica Bennett

With all the talk about reducing carbon footprints, energy-efficient light bulbs are all the rage. Australia, Canada and the European Union plan to phase out incandescent bulbs within five years, and similar proposals are afoot in the United States. But the leading replacements, fluorescent lights, contain mercury, a toxin, which can cost thousands of dollars to clean up, by some estimates. Another alternative is light-emitting diodes. An LED--a semiconductor that glows when an electrical current runs through it--contains no ...

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