{"id":1925,"date":"2012-03-28T03:06:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2012-03-28T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T10:06:10","slug":"new-led-lights-for-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2012\/03\/28\/new-led-lights-for-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"New LEDs for the Valley Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_2062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 235px\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2062 \" title=\"LEDs\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2012\/02\/DSCN0918-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"LEDs in the Valley Library.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">LEDs in the Valley Library.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>The OSU Sustainability Office will be funding and\u00a0replacing halogen track lights in the Valley Library with LEDs. LEDs are much more efficient than halogens and last much longer. The replacement the building&#8217;s\u00a0track lights alone will save over $3,000 a year in energy savings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1926\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1926 \" title=\"Halogens\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2012\/02\/DSCN0824-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Valley Library, previously lit with halogens.\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Valley Library, previously lit with halogens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The old halogen lights are also not\u00a0suitable for lighting artwork, because if halogens are\u00a0pointed directly at a painting then they can fade the colors over time.\u00a0 LEDs, on the other hand, do not produce any ultraviolet or infrared light which is why they are starting to be used by museums in their art galleries.\u00a0Currently even\u00a0the Mona Lisa is lighted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&amp;pgw_code=LF\">LEDs<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEDs in the Valley Library. The OSU Sustainability Office will be funding and\u00a0replacing halogen track lights in the Valley Library with LEDs. LEDs are much more efficient than halogens and last much longer. The replacement the building&#8217;s\u00a0track lights alone will save over $3,000 a year in energy savings. The old halogen lights are also not\u00a0suitable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}