Potentially this will reduce the world
consumption of electricity by 100TWh per year, at a value of $100
billion. This explains why so much effort is being put into development
in the US, Japan and Europe. Forge Europa's partnership with Cambridge
University is therefore all the more vital in ensuring that the
UK gains part of this market.
Julie Barton, Operations Director at Forge Europa said, "This research work is of great importance to the environment. LEDs really do represent the environmentally friendly way forward, because they can be powered by as little as 10% of the energy required by typical incandescent light bulbs, whilst lasting potentially up to 100 times longer. LEDs contain no mercury, give out minimal amounts of heat and due to their long life there is less environmental waste."
Peter Barton now chairs this research work at Cambridge working closely with the world renowned Prof Colin Humphreys. This fact did not go unnoticed by The Financial Times who were keen to report on this prestigious and exciting work recently (26th August 2003).
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Chris Burrow, one of Forge Europa's research and development
design engineers, testing an LED display.
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