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SUPER EFFICIENT INCANDESCENT TECHNOLOGY
This incandescent patent document will soon be published here as a public record.
If you are expert in state-of-the-art incandescent physics, your initial inclinations almost certainly deny even the theoretical possibility of achieving over 80% "wall plug" efficiencies and efficacies over 350 lumens per watt with simple, inexpensive, incandescent technology. Your vast physics experience asserts that even molten tungsten (if molten tungsten could be contained) could not boast such performance. You also know that prior arts employing dichroic recycling of infrared power have met fundamental physics failures at only 30 lumens/watt. Like most experts, you are highly skeptical of any suggestions to dramatically improve or revive simple incandescent technologies, and understandably, have turned your attention toward radically new lighting technologies, such as LEDs (Solid State) and fluorescents (up to ~100 lumens/watt) in order to surpass the mere 5-12% efficiencies of old incandescent filament lighting. And yet, you also know that only a true spectral continuum - especially a continuum which accommodates the response of the human eye - would produce nearly perfect white light and very high color rendition. If your skepticism is piqued, you are about to be pleasantly surprised by the news that ultra-efficient and nearly perfect color rendition, is possible by way of a breakthrough technology which, at long last, can actually fully recycle all wasteful incandescent wavelengths, while allowing only visible light to escape. Thus, to the surprise of many, there is a high potential to revive the familiar low-cost incandescent lighting industry:
Pinnacle has filed a patent application in incandescent lighting technology, claiming several times higher efficiency and efficacy than any prior art light source. A means has been found to increase the emissivity of pure tungsten metal from about 0.3 to a nearly perfect 1.0. That breakthrough alone almost triples the efficiency of incandescent tungsten science. However, the invention goes beyond that by illustrating a new means to recycle almost all of the infrared radiation (over 75% is wasted infrared). Thus, with just these two improvements, it is now theoretically possible to improve incandescent efficiencies by approximately 10 fold... even superior to future state-of-the-art solid state lighting. All prior art attempts to recycle employed grossly flawed optics. This incandescent breakthrough leaves little room for future improvement because it is able to approach 80-100% efficiency, and equally importantly, it can emit a nearly perfect spectral continuum satisfying the spectral response of the human eye. In effect, the 159-year quest for ideal artificial light has come full circle, starting and ending with incandescence. Independent lighting experts have reviewed Pinnacle's breakthrough to endorse the soundness of Pinnacle's technology - approximately "350 L/W" targets are within grasp. Low cost, longevity, dimming, extreme ambient temperature operation, and very high color rendition, are all claimed in the invention.
In a practical world, persuading people to upgrade to costly compact fluoresecnt light bulbs having much higher lighting efficiencies has largely failed. After several decades of efforts to persuade people to switch to compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs), only about 10-15% have elected to do so. The national wisdom to resist is justified. CFLs are many times more expensive than simple incandescent bulbs, which requires years of use to repay the high initial costs of CFLs [e.g. many applications, such as closet lighting will never repay the high initial costs of CFLs]. CFLs are filled with toxic metallic mercury, which could lead to more costly special disposal issues. CFLs are physically large, do not work in many outdoor winter climates, cannot be used in refrigerators or cooking ovens, offer only modest color rendition, and cannot be dimmed. Even promotional efforts, by power generating companies, to give CFLs away for free, has not worked well. All of the above illustrates that people simply do not approve of CFL technology. Similar objections to new and even more expensive light emitting diode (LEDs) also exist. LEDs are much more expensive (over 10-25 times more expensive), and many protest that the best LEDs are not as "wall-plug efficient" as CFLs. And, both CFLs and LEDs produce poor color rendition.
All of the above limitations and objections to CFLs and LEDs are eliminated by Pinnacle's super efficient, ideal spectral radiance, incandescent technology. It can be infinitely dimmed; can be used indoors or out; in cooking ovens and refrigerators; can be made in very low wattages (longevity flashlights) to even megawatt levels (stadium lighting), and each application does not require costly electronic drive circuitry, like CFLs or Solid State power supplies.
Pinnacle's super efficient incandescent technology opens several more promising rapid-adoption opportunities, not possible with any prior art light bulb introduction. Many millions of super efficient street lights can begin the roll-out of this new technology, thereby saving enormous electrical power with low cost, high color rendition street and highway lighting.
Low powered super efficient incandescent bulbs can also be supplied by power companies at no upfront charge to consumers because the power consumption (by each end-user) will drop several times below CFL projections, and thereby reduce the need to build new power plants. Instead of taking years of consumer energy savings to compensate the high cost of installing a large number of expensive CFLs, a typical house-wide upgrade to super efficient incandescents would cost less and pay for themselves much faster - without all of the limitations and complaints associated with bulky CFLs. The energy savings can be so great that electric power companies could even charge their customers for a complete household lightbulb-upgrade while simultaneously reducing the net annual electric-billing to each customer [due to significantly lower electric power consumption]. In other words, it becomes possible, for the first time, to make a rapid transition to super efficient lighting without asking consumers to assume financial burdens or lifestyle changes. Such a plan also thwarts congressional proposals to unwisely mothball large American incandescent factories.
One potential result of a rapid transition to dramatically higher lighting efficiency plus dramatically improved spectral efficacy, is that of decommissioning up to 200 of America's most polluting power plants. Lighting consumes about 22%* of all generated electricity. Super efficient lighting could reduce lighting power consumption by up to 95% - while not imposing financial burdens, especially if super efficient lightbulbs are provided by electric power companies for "free" [that is - a small amount charged over a short time in each month's electric bill, while still reducing the net electric consumption billing]. No prior art lightbulb technology can justify such a practical energy efficiency transition. That's why no prior art has penetrated even 10% of the global lighting market share.
* Source: General Electric
Strategic licensing
A special message to skeptical lighting
manufacturers and incandescent physicists:
manufacturers and incandescent physicists:
If you are expert in state-of-the-art incandescent physics, your initial inclinations almost certainly deny even the theoretical possibility of achieving over 80% "wall plug" efficiencies and efficacies over 350 lumens per watt with simple, inexpensive, incandescent technology. Your vast physics experience asserts that even molten tungsten (if molten tungsten could be contained) could not boast such performance. You also know that prior arts employing dichroic recycling of infrared power have met fundamental physics failures at only 30 lumens/watt. Like most experts, you are highly skeptical of any suggestions to dramatically improve or revive simple incandescent technologies, and understandably, have turned your attention toward radically new lighting technologies, such as LEDs (Solid State) and fluorescents (up to ~100 lumens/watt) in order to surpass the mere 5-12% efficiencies of old incandescent filament lighting. And yet, you also know that only a true spectral continuum - especially a continuum which accommodates the response of the human eye - would produce nearly perfect white light and very high color rendition. If your skepticism is piqued, you are about to be pleasantly surprised by the news that ultra-efficient and nearly perfect color rendition, is possible by way of a breakthrough technology which, at long last, can actually fully recycle all wasteful incandescent wavelengths, while allowing only visible light to escape. Thus, to the surprise of many, there is a high potential to revive the familiar low-cost incandescent lighting industry:
Pinnacle has filed a patent application in incandescent lighting technology, claiming several times higher efficiency and efficacy than any prior art light source. A means has been found to increase the emissivity of pure tungsten metal from about 0.3 to a nearly perfect 1.0. That breakthrough alone almost triples the efficiency of incandescent tungsten science. However, the invention goes beyond that by illustrating a new means to recycle almost all of the infrared radiation (over 75% is wasted infrared). Thus, with just these two improvements, it is now theoretically possible to improve incandescent efficiencies by approximately 10 fold... even superior to future state-of-the-art solid state lighting. All prior art attempts to recycle employed grossly flawed optics. This incandescent breakthrough leaves little room for future improvement because it is able to approach 80-100% efficiency, and equally importantly, it can emit a nearly perfect spectral continuum satisfying the spectral response of the human eye. In effect, the 159-year quest for ideal artificial light has come full circle, starting and ending with incandescence. Independent lighting experts have reviewed Pinnacle's breakthrough to endorse the soundness of Pinnacle's technology - approximately "350 L/W" targets are within grasp. Low cost, longevity, dimming, extreme ambient temperature operation, and very high color rendition, are all claimed in the invention.
In a practical world, persuading people to upgrade to costly compact fluoresecnt light bulbs having much higher lighting efficiencies has largely failed. After several decades of efforts to persuade people to switch to compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs), only about 10-15% have elected to do so. The national wisdom to resist is justified. CFLs are many times more expensive than simple incandescent bulbs, which requires years of use to repay the high initial costs of CFLs [e.g. many applications, such as closet lighting will never repay the high initial costs of CFLs]. CFLs are filled with toxic metallic mercury, which could lead to more costly special disposal issues. CFLs are physically large, do not work in many outdoor winter climates, cannot be used in refrigerators or cooking ovens, offer only modest color rendition, and cannot be dimmed. Even promotional efforts, by power generating companies, to give CFLs away for free, has not worked well. All of the above illustrates that people simply do not approve of CFL technology. Similar objections to new and even more expensive light emitting diode (LEDs) also exist. LEDs are much more expensive (over 10-25 times more expensive), and many protest that the best LEDs are not as "wall-plug efficient" as CFLs. And, both CFLs and LEDs produce poor color rendition.
All of the above limitations and objections to CFLs and LEDs are eliminated by Pinnacle's super efficient, ideal spectral radiance, incandescent technology. It can be infinitely dimmed; can be used indoors or out; in cooking ovens and refrigerators; can be made in very low wattages (longevity flashlights) to even megawatt levels (stadium lighting), and each application does not require costly electronic drive circuitry, like CFLs or Solid State power supplies.
Pinnacle's super efficient incandescent technology opens several more promising rapid-adoption opportunities, not possible with any prior art light bulb introduction. Many millions of super efficient street lights can begin the roll-out of this new technology, thereby saving enormous electrical power with low cost, high color rendition street and highway lighting.
Low powered super efficient incandescent bulbs can also be supplied by power companies at no upfront charge to consumers because the power consumption (by each end-user) will drop several times below CFL projections, and thereby reduce the need to build new power plants. Instead of taking years of consumer energy savings to compensate the high cost of installing a large number of expensive CFLs, a typical house-wide upgrade to super efficient incandescents would cost less and pay for themselves much faster - without all of the limitations and complaints associated with bulky CFLs. The energy savings can be so great that electric power companies could even charge their customers for a complete household lightbulb-upgrade while simultaneously reducing the net annual electric-billing to each customer [due to significantly lower electric power consumption]. In other words, it becomes possible, for the first time, to make a rapid transition to super efficient lighting without asking consumers to assume financial burdens or lifestyle changes. Such a plan also thwarts congressional proposals to unwisely mothball large American incandescent factories.
One potential result of a rapid transition to dramatically higher lighting efficiency plus dramatically improved spectral efficacy, is that of decommissioning up to 200 of America's most polluting power plants. Lighting consumes about 22%* of all generated electricity. Super efficient lighting could reduce lighting power consumption by up to 95% - while not imposing financial burdens, especially if super efficient lightbulbs are provided by electric power companies for "free" [that is - a small amount charged over a short time in each month's electric bill, while still reducing the net electric consumption billing]. No prior art lightbulb technology can justify such a practical energy efficiency transition. That's why no prior art has penetrated even 10% of the global lighting market share.
* Source: General Electric
Strategic licensing
As illustrated throughout Pinnacle's other philanthropic licensing plans, the present super-incandescent technology also includes preferred licensing:
In acknowledgment of the facts that the majority of American light bulb manufacturing is done by foreign owned companies, and yet, America needs as much energy independence as rapidly as possible; Pinnacle is most interested in licensing companies which can maximize U.S. jobs and especially those who adopt some form of extremely rapid national lightbulb upgrade plan, such as the example with electric power companies above.
Pinnacle vows to plow as much of the proceeds as possible from light bulb technology proceeds into "free" GeoSolar space conditioning, global warming solutions, and other ultra clean American energy programs. Since lighting technology licensing involves very powerful corporations, Pinnacle will make licensing as publicly transparent as possible.
In acknowledgment of the facts that the majority of American light bulb manufacturing is done by foreign owned companies, and yet, America needs as much energy independence as rapidly as possible; Pinnacle is most interested in licensing companies which can maximize U.S. jobs and especially those who adopt some form of extremely rapid national lightbulb upgrade plan, such as the example with electric power companies above.
Pinnacle vows to plow as much of the proceeds as possible from light bulb technology proceeds into "free" GeoSolar space conditioning, global warming solutions, and other ultra clean American energy programs. Since lighting technology licensing involves very powerful corporations, Pinnacle will make licensing as publicly transparent as possible.
