{"id":9610,"date":"2012-03-29T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=9610"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T23:31:38","slug":"why-led-lights-are-more-efficient-than-incandescent-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/why-led-lights-are-more-efficient-than-incandescent-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LED Lights are More Efficient than Incandescent Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/led-fact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9626\" title=\"led-fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/led-fact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/led-fact.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/led-fact-340x202.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LEDs are much more efficient than &#8220;regular&#8221; incandescent light bulbs due to the fact that they give off almost no heat; so a much higher percentage of the electricity used goes towards making light, rather than in incandescent bulbs where a good percentage of it ends up being converted to heat.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How an LED Works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/how-an-led-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">How an LED Works<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEDs are much more efficient than &#8220;regular&#8221; incandescent light bulbs due to the fact that they give off almost no heat; so a much higher percentage of the electricity used goes towards making light, rather than in incandescent bulbs where a good percentage of it ends up being converted to heat. How an LED Works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2340,1112,726],"class_list":["post-9610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-led-facts","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-science-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9627,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions\/9627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}