Janique Goff and the Benefits of Electron Stimulated Luminescence Light Bulbs

Staunch environmentalist Janique Goff is always on the lookout for innovations, inventions, and advancements that allow individuals, households, and businesses to make good use of energy and reduce carbon emissions in man’s battle against climate change and global warming. This is why she is quick to extol the virtues of Seattle-based lighting company Vu1’s Electron Stimulated Luminescence (ESL) technology. Eschewing traditional light-creating components such as the filament, plasma, mercury vapor, and coils, and borrowing a slice from the basic science that powered the television’s cathode ray tube, Vu1’s ELS projects accelerated ¬electrons in a uniform spray that stimulates the phosphor-coated inner surface of the glass bulb, making it glow.

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For Janique Goff and many others, this spells a future that is as sustainable as it is astoundingly well-lit. Though it creates superior light that is fully dimmable, turns on instantly, and is virtually indistinguishable in quality from that of the incandescent bulb, the ESL light bulb lasts 5 times longer than the incandescent bulb, and is a whopping 70% more efficient with its use of energy. Apart from its promised emission reductions and carbon footprint savings, the ESL light bulb does not have the heat-sensitivity problems that CFL and LED bulbs experience when placed in enclosed fixtures, nor does it contain any mercury – this means it is both safe for household disposal and is absolutely recyclable.

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Vu1’s ESL light bulbs are currently being manufactured in classic light bulb shapes and will retail at an affordable, mass market price point. Janique Goff hopes that the public soon embraces this modern, energy-efficient innovation and that one day, environment intact, the whole world may bask in the redemptive glow of ESL.

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Janique Goff’s thoughts on the environment and the need for stronger efforts to address climate change can be found at janiquegoff.wordpress.com.