The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting

Evan Mills
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
MS 90-4000
1 Cyclotron Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Published in Science, 308:1263-1264.

May 27, 2005

LBNL-57550

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Abstract

Contemporary questions about sustainable energy and development converge in unexpected ways around a technology that is at once an echo of the past and yet very much a part of the present: fuel-based lighting in the developing world. An emerging opportunity for reducing the global costs and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with this highly inefficient form of lighting energy use is to replace fuel-based lamps with white solid-state (“LED”) lighting, which can be affordably solar-powered. Doing so would allow those without access to electricity in developing world to affordably leapfrog over the prevailing incandescent and fluorescent lighting technologies in use today through the electrified world.

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