| With the release of hard-hitting documentaries such | | | | less waste heat, which requires extra ventilation to |
| as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Leonardo | | | | carry away. It also means less glare; while this useful |
| DiCaprio's The 11th Hour energy consumption and its | | | | light is very bright to plants, humans perceive such |
| relationship to global climate change has become a | | | | light as relatively dim. This also eliminates the need |
| prominent issue. What people often fail to understand | | | | for troublesome shades and reflectors. |
| is that the best solutions are not great actions on the | | | | Although they can represent a greater upfront |
| part of a few, but rather small actions taken by the | | | | investment, LED Grow Lights cost substantially less in |
| many. For example, if everyone in the U.S. were to | | | | the long run. In the first place, they are not nearly as |
| replace incandescent lights with fluorescent ones, it | | | | fragile 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 thing | | | | of an LED Grow Light is 100,000 hours - which is as |
| that can make a great difference. If you are growing | | | | much as fifty times as long as that of conventional |
| your own food in a hydroponics garden, you're | | | | bulbs. This adds up to nearly twelve years under |
| already taking a step toward saving the planet. The | | | | normal conditions. |
| use of LED Grow Lights allows you to take the next | | | | Because LED Grow Lights are environmentally |
| step in reducing your footprint on the planet. Not only | | | | friendly, they will result in healthier, more productive |
| to they operate at a fraction of the voltage of | | | | plants. Because they emit very little in the way of |
| conventional bulbs (less than 20 VAC as opposed to | | | | heat, LED Grow Lights allow your plants to keep |
| 120), but they are free of mercury - a highly toxic | | | | cooler. 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 other | | | | heat. In addition, your plants will suffer less from |
| ways as well. Unlike the more general purpose | | | | heat-related root damage that can occur when hot |
| fluorescent bulbs, LED Grow Lights require no electric | | | | conventional grow lights heat the soil. |
| or digital ballast,that can eventually burn out. They | | | | With LED Grow Lights, your plants will also require |
| also emit "targeted light;" whereas most standard | | | | less watering. |
| grow lights emit a broad spectrum of light that | | | | Across 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 spectrum | | | | environmentally-friendly way. |
| actually used for photosynthesis. This also means far | | | | |