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Cons: Incandescent lighting is hideously expensive as a lot of power is required to produce the energy – one light bulb only lasts roughly 1000 hours. The heat it generates makes them too hot to touch, and so they are dangerous in certain situations. Incandescent light bulbs are gradually being replaced in many applications by sources that produce more light but use less electricity, such as fluorescent lighting… Fluorescent lighting uses electricity generated through gas discharge – in a nutshell, a tiny amount of mercury in a phosphor-lined glass tube emits ultraviolet (UV) light. The phosphor absorbs the UV light and re-emits it as light the human eye can see. Pros: Compact fluorescent lamps are super energy efficient – they produce a quarter of the heat per lumen of an incandescent light bulb and last about six times longer (about 6000 hours). Cons: To the conventional eye, fluorescents sometimes seem too bright and appear to make colours look unnatural and garish. To combat this, opt for the yellow-tubed fluorescents (such as ‘warm white’) instead of pure white ones, or an extremely lowwattage lamp. Also, fluorescent light cannot be used in dimmers. Light-emitting diodes (LED). This will be the most practical light source in the years to come, according to Robert Victoriana. Generated by a semi-conductor, it’s the light you see in flashlights and cell phones. Pros: LEDs are five times as power-efficient as fluorescent lighting but there is a catch – at present, the microchip inside the LED light only emits light in one direction. It doesn’t reflect it back, which means it doesn’t allow us to see colour. The solution, says Robert, is to design lenses that go on top of the LED and disperse the light. when light tricks our sight Most of us will have experienced the navy sock/black sock scenario. You take a pair of apparently black socks out of the drawer, then realise later that one of them is actually blue. Don’t worry, it doesn’t mean you’re colour blind – it’s a common phenomenon called sample metamerism. The reason for the optical illusion is that the wavelength emission between various light sources, such as incandescent and fluorescent light, differs. Incandescent light bulbs emit very few short blue wavelengths, which makes it hard to tell whether a colour we see in such light is dark blue or black. Fluorescent light, on the other hand, emits more short-wavelength light, and so it’s easier to distinguish the two colours. On the flipside, you can also have two identical colour samples that look vastly different when viewed under different lights. This phenomenon, called illuminant
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