Where’s Our Common Sense? Everyday lighting practices reveal a counterintuitive pattern

摘要

“There is nothing so uncommonas common sense.”Frank Lloyd Wright’s famoussentiment applies to thelighting industry as well. Afew examples:1. Dr. Shuji Nakamura earnedthe Nobel Prize for Physics forhis development of the blueLED, a light source with morethan 10 times the efficacy andlife expectancy of incandescents,which conserves energyand cost, yet a congressmanmoved that incandescentlamps should still be marketed,because their initial cost is lessthan that of LEDs.