How does light impact on environmental pollution?

In the highly developed countries approximately a third of the energy consumption is produced through electricity, in which 25% is directly associated with illumination. The cost of illumination can represent up to 80% or 90% of the operating energy costs in commercial applications.

The current conventional lighting technologies are actually highly inefficient presenting a proportion of useful energy conversion which would barely reach the 15% being optimist, and reaching the value in the order of 2% in a larger part of these. In comparison, the use of energy for heating in buildings, or motors, is much more efficient with values of 70% or 90% respectively.

LuxInTec´s technology is developed with the purpose of join electronics and illumination, and the increase of the energy efficiency in the application of lighting. For this we consider not only the efficiency in lm/watt ratio of the lamp, but also the sum of this efficiency in the electronic power source, the optic control of light generated and its correct projections in the installations. From an environmental point of view, the energetic consumption at a global level in the year 2005 generated the emission of 9 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. The development or implementation of lighting technologies of illumination using potency LED reflect a step forward in the reduction of energy consumption which would permit the duplication of efficiency in the application of the light for illumination by the year 2025.

Furthermore, thanks to the LED technology there will be a drastic reduction in the light pollution of cities, due to the control of light that this technology allows to attain. This pollution is the direct or indirect emission towards the atmosphere of light originated from an artificial source, due to the use of inadequate or excessive illumination. The most notable effect of this pollution is the dispersion of light towards the sky, in other words there is no control of light intrusion and its abuse, which directly threatens the biodiversity of nocturnal animal and plant life which rely on the darkness to survive and maintain their equilibrium, also like the persons who see as their homes are invaded by the street lamps out of control.