New light illuminates Christmas in Japan

Three hundred thousand light emitting diodes (LED) consisting of the "blue sea" accompanied by music "rising tides", which stands the flash "marine clock" issued crisp sound memory of the passage of time, pray for happiness and well-being of the world...... One of the people who can not help but exclaim: too beautiful!

Twenty-four on Christmas Eve, the streets of Tokyo is full of fireworks, appear more bright than usual. Shiodome Square underground "blue ocean" theme exhibition is just one of the corner.

And Tokyo is echoed in the island of Shikoku in Tokushima county. The local government not only launched the eighty-eight light of the resort, but also played a very seductive slogan: visit the eighty-eight spots will be able to make your love blossom". As a result, countless young men and women in the colorful lights linger.

Parts of Japan have borrowed Christmas lights, a large-scale landscape can be described as "ulterior motives", only a LED bulb is the real protagonist in this great in strength and impetus of propaganda.

It is understood that, compared to the traditional lighting equipment incandescent and fluorescent lamps, LED has low power consumption, long life, miniaturization, strong directivity and many other advantages. It has been calculated that if all of the country's national lights are replaced by LED bulbs, the annual reduction of carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to twenty-five million trees can absorb carbon dioxide.

Although this product has been widely used in Japan, mobile phones, computers, lights, headlights, agricultural products and other fields, but the promotion is not satisfied. "LED will become a light source in twenty-first Century, and now the subject is how to make it into thousands of ordinary families. Tokushima county government, a staff member told reporters.

But for LED, flying into the homes of ordinary people, the dream is not easy to achieve. At the current market price, a LED bulb is equivalent to three hundred incandescent lamps with the same illuminance and more than twenty-five fluorescent lamps. The expensive price makes the prudent housewife.

In fact, LED bulb life expectancy and save electricity, accounting is not much more expensive than conventional light. What's more, its effect on protecting the environment is hard to measure by money. The main problem now is the change of ideas. "Research and development of LED technical staff always take the trouble to explain to people.

Colorful lights reflect the collision of old and new ideas. It seems that even in the world's most advanced awareness of environmental protection in Japan, LED is still a long way to go.

Source: China News Network