By greatest invention I mean something that had big and positive influence.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 months ago

    I mean we only have had fourth and things happen over time. So I want to say blue led but they existed before the century but just got the process such they can manufacture them. Native white ones are invented now but most white is using the combination method currently with the blue ones. Anyway if it counts I can’t imagine how much energy this has saved even over halogens for lighting and then for dispalys to. I would hate to think how much fossile fuel we would be using if we were still on incadescents and crts.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I didn’t truly understand how much energy incandescent were burning. Grew up with nothing but those.

      One night my AC crapped out in my tiny apartment so I killed the lights except one in a far corner. The air was so still I could reach my hand out and sense the heat from a 60W bulb.