Comments on: Next-Gen Lights Inching Into Homes, Taking Over Government http://gigaom.com/2010/07/07/next-gen-lights-inching-into-homes-taking-over-government/ Thu, 23 May 2013 10:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dissident http://gigaom.com/2010/07/07/next-gen-lights-inching-into-homes-taking-over-government/#comment-34293 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:00:59 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=61318#comment-34293 Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures’ Soraa is supposed to come out in 2011 with a bulb that uses 10% of normal bulbs, and return the investment in a year. They don’t specify how the investment calculation is done, but I imagine it’s not too wild.

“Soraa in Santa Barbara, Calif., that has been working on semiconductors to come up with a light bulb that uses 80% less power than conventional incandescent bulbs, which pays for itself in less than a 12 months. Soraa expects to start selling its light bulbs in 2011.”

So I guess if you don’t think $20 breaks the 1 year payback period, Soraa is supposed to do it in 2011.

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