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Bringing light to the world

By   /   Friday, January 21st, 2011  /   Comments Off on Bringing light to the world

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For the roughly 2 billion people in the world with no electricity, reading at night means squinting in the dim and dirty light of a candle or a kerosene lamp. For $12 each, they could read by the steady glow of a solar-powered LED lamp instead. A team of engineers at UC Santa Barbara has…

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