Reduce your Carbon Footprint by Growing with LEDs

Growing your own food hydroponically makes you a part of those environmentally conscious people who are actively doing things to save the planet. If you then additionally make use of LED Plants Lights in your home garden project, you are taking the next obvious step in reducing your carbon footprint. This is because LED lights operate at 20 VAC compared to about 120 VAC used by most regular bulbs. Apart from this, LED lights are also free of the highly toxic mercury which is used in fluorescent lights.

LED lights operate very efficiently and economically. They emit only light within the spectrum usable by plants for photosynthesis unlike fluorescent light bulbs that emit a wide spectrum of light, most of which is useless to plant life. As such there are energy savings when you make use of LED lights far less heat is wasted… Heat which you would otherwise have to get rid of with additional ventilation and more power usage too. Again the light produced doesn’t have the glare noticeable with other light bulbs, appearing dim to humans while being very bright to plants. So you will not need shades and reflectors for your indoor garden.

It is more expensive initially to buy LED grow lights but the investment is worth it over the long run. They last up to fifty times longer than conventional bulbs which can be translated to 100000 hours of running time. This adds up to a lifespan of almost twelve years of normal usage making them extremely durable, and highly cost effective.

When you use LED grow lighting, which are friendly to the environment, your plants will grow healthier and be more productive. They will also be cooler as they grow and need less watering because of the very small amount of heat emitted by the LED lights. Excessive heat from conventional grow lights can stunt the growth of plants and result in root damage.

To sum it all up, LED grow lights are the environmentally friendly way to grow more economically.


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This entry was written by Get Green, posted on March 23, 2009 at 3:36 am, and filed under Grow Lights, LED Grow Lights, with these tags: fluorescent light bulbs, growing lights, LED Grow Lights, Light Bulb Basics.