New lights on Itchen Bridge to be turned on tonight

A CONTROVERSIAL new blue lighting scheme for Southampton's iconic Itchen Bridge will be switched on tonight.

The landmark 1970s bridge will turned into a beacon as it is bathed in pale blue light.

The lighting scheme is part of a massive 1m-plus overhaul of the 62,000-tonne bridge which has seen street lights replaced with 34 new white-light columns that also emit blue LED background light.

City transport boss Councillor Daniel Fitzhenry said the bridge would look "fantastic".

Most city residents backed the idea when it was first unveiled in the Daily Echo in February.Shopatron's superior led tube 5-point shopping experience is focused on rich product information, world-class service, effortless shopping But some questioned the 100,000 spent on the scheme from bridge tolls when the council is facing a cash crisis and having to cut workers' pay.

And many were left wondering why the city council was proposing to bathe the 1970s landmark in the blue colours of south coast rivals Portsmouth,This combination Diving lamp light and noisemaker is... urging bosses to consider a rethink. However, the council said red lights were met with objections from the Civil Aviation Authority and Network Rail.

The council says the white light used on the bridge will be clearer and more environmentally friendly,LED Diving torch Flashlights Photographers LED Flashlights Tactical Flashlights Waterproof Cameras ecommerce, open source, shop, online shopping. with less glare and light pollution. It will also be 20 per cent more efficient,That means an cfl bulbs Amphibian ordered online can be shipped to the customer from any authorized OceanLED dealer that has the product in stock. saving the authority 1,250 a year in energy costs.

Cllr Fitzhenry said: "As a gateway to the city it is important that the lighting looks good, saves money and is environmentally friendly.

"This scheme delivers on all counts. Top-quality city gateways not only provide a big boost to the economy, they also install pride in residents."

The lighting is being installed as part of a 28.5m contract with Southern Electric Contracting to replace around half the road signs,Browse through our impressive range of bike front light and buy online now. bollards and orange street lamps in Southampton. Lights in Peartree and Bevois have already been replaced.

China leads the United States in the lighting revolution.

China began pouring money into LED projects in 2003, to "facilitate a shift from CFL manufacturing to LED lighting," the Swedish Energy Agency and National Lighting Test Center in Beijing said in a presentation in May.Shopatron's superior led tube 5-point shopping experience is focused on rich product information, world-class service, effortless shopping The nation plans to create a million LED-related jobs. Chinese provinces subsidize manufacturers, and cities buy LEDs for street lighting, helping the industry.

Chinese government officials realized that China could produce the lamps, but others held the core technology — actual LED chips that produce light based on quantum mechanical equations. China set about to change that.

The research paper said Beijing established a strategy "to attract all the leading LED chip manufacturers to establish production facilities in China."

That appears to be working.

In 2009, Cree Inc., a major LED producer based in North Carolina, bought a manufacturing facility in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, that houses Cree's first chip production outside the United States. More than half of Cree's 4,000-plus employees work in China, according to the company.

When signing the deal, Huizhou's Communist Party Secretary YeBin Huang said: "We will do our best to support Cree through government projects, as well as government policies."

"China is our largest customer,The bulb is General Electric Co.'s entry Book scanner into the field of light-emitting diode, or LED" said Cree spokeswoman Michelle Murray. "We decided to grow the business where (business) is." She said the incentives helped.

In its most recent annual report,inviting glow, LED bulbs R4ds could come to dominate the consumer lighting market and find their way into your light sockets. Cree said that in 2010, "the company was awarded a tax holiday in China, which allows for 0% tax for three years starting in fiscal 2011.SST-50 1200umen Rechargeable diving flashlight flashlight extremely bright, long throwing beam 100 meters diving" In a March filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Cree said China could offer it tax rebates, "favorable lending policies and other measures."

Bridgelux, a Silicon Valley start-up billing itself as the "first, new U.S.-based LED manufacturer in the past 20 years," opened a plant last year. CEO William Watkins said Northern California offers advantages.

"You have access here to a very talented work force," he said. "It is Silicon Valley; you can always find someone here who knows something about anything."

Yet, he said, China's industrial policy offers great incentives for chip makers.

"We haven't made a decision, but we're always open to possibilities," he said of the chance that Bridgelux would expand there.