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From: ltn@lems.UUCP (Les Niles)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: More efficient fluorescent lights
Message-ID: <144@lems.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 17:57:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 17:57:22 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 07:18:05 EST
References: <sri-arpa.11819>
Reply-To: ltn@lems.UUCP (Les Niles)
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In article <sri-arpa.11819> DIETZ@RUTGERS.ARPA writes:
>
>A group of physicists at GTE have shown (Science, 26-Oct-84) that if you
>increase the density of Hg-196 in mercury fluorescent lights from natural
>density of .146% to around 4% the bulb becomes about 5% more efficient.
>Laser isotope separation should make this feasible.  While 5% doesn't
>sound like much, the power consumed by fluorescent lights in the US averages
>to around 50,000 megawatts, so this technique could "generate" 2500 MW.
>The only change necessary is replacement of current fluorescent bulbs with
>otherwise identical bulbs containing enriched mercury.
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OK, but how much of that 2500 MW is going to be used up by the laser isotope
separation???

-Les Niles