The Power of LED Grow Lights

With the release of hard-hitting documentaries suchless waste heat, which requires extra ventilation to
as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Leonardocarry away. It also means less glare; while this useful
DiCaprio's The 11th Hour energy consumption and itslight is very bright to plants, humans perceive such
relationship to global climate change has become alight as relatively dim. This also eliminates the need
prominent issue. What people often fail to understandfor troublesome shades and reflectors.
is that the best solutions are not great actions on theAlthough they can represent a greater upfront
part of a few, but rather small actions taken by theinvestment, LED Grow Lights cost substantially less in
many. For example, if everyone in the U.S. were tothe long run. In the first place, they are not nearly as
replace incandescent lights with fluorescent ones, itfragile as conventional bulbs and fluorescents. Best of
could eliminate the need for Middle East oil.all, they are extremely durable - the average lifespan
LED Grow lights are another example of a small thingof an LED Grow Light is 100,000 hours - which is as
that can make a great difference. If you are growingmuch as fifty times as long as that of conventional
your own food in a hydroponics garden, you'rebulbs. This adds up to nearly twelve years under
already taking a step toward saving the planet. Thenormal conditions.
use of LED Grow Lights allows you to take the nextBecause LED Grow Lights are environmentally
step in reducing your footprint on the planet. Not onlyfriendly, they will result in healthier, more productive
to they operate at a fraction of the voltage ofplants. Because they emit very little in the way of
conventional bulbs (less than 20 VAC as opposed toheat, LED Grow Lights allow your plants to keep
120), but they are free of mercury - a highly toxiccooler. Plants thrive at room temperature, receiving all
metal used in metallic vapor and fluorescent lights.the light they require without growth-stunting excess
LED Grow Lights are efficient and economical in otherheat. In addition, your plants will suffer less from
ways as well. Unlike the more general purposeheat-related root damage that can occur when hot
fluorescent bulbs, LED Grow Lights require no electricconventional grow lights heat the soil.
or digital ballast,that can eventually burn out. TheyWith LED Grow Lights, your plants will also require
also emit "targeted light;" whereas most standardless watering.
grow lights emit a broad spectrum of light thatAcross the board, LED Grow Lights allow you to
includes light wavelength that is useless to plant life,grow more economically and in a more
LED Grow Lights emit only that part of the spectrumenvironmentally-friendly way.
actually used for photosynthesis. This also means far