Dan, that is why I was told to wait as well. This series of bulb that was the winner of this competition will be the start we are looking for.
Due to the competition details the company that created the testing equipment was not permitted to sell any part of the LED designed to calibrate the equipment to any manufacturering company entered into the competition. They had a design that met the standards in order to test it out and she stated that it is the closest to what we are using than anything produced to date.
They are also working on the next generation of LED, that they will be creating similar testing equipment for, that is even more efficient and smaller than current LED's. These will be used in even greater things and have working test models of the clear tablets that you saw if you watched the movie Avatar that use this next generation LED Tech.
I was given the information to bypass the CFL's (due to the time to release of the next gen of LED), the LED lights will be very expensive (as lightbulbs go), but when she calculated the number of lights I have to output was able to approximate a $40.00 per month savings on my electric bill. That is without changing anything. That will pay for about 1 bulb per month. The initial investment is huge but will be paid for in a 3 year span if everything gets changed at once.
If I could get my full spectrum T-5s in the fish tank hood down to something that uses less energy than I would be able to save even more, but after the initial investment of $400 for the head now the replacement wouldn't be worth it, it's only a year old.
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