MIT Technology Review published a study extolling the benefits of LED lights.
"The question that farmers have pondered over is whether they will ever recoup the upfront cost of a brand-new system of lighting," the study states.
"Today, they get an answer thanks to the work of Devesh Singh and pals at the Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies at the University of Hannover in Germany. These guys have compared the life cycle costs of traditional high pressure sodium lamps against those of LEDs for greenhouse lighting.
"And they say the advantages are clear. They calculate that the cumulative cost of high pressure sodium lamps surpasses that of LEDs after just seven years and that after 16 years the cumulative cost of high pressure sodium lamps is more than double the equivalent cost of LEDs."
To read the entire study, click here.
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