By now we all know that Eco-Friendly, Energy Savings and Sustainability are all contemporary verbiage used to excite and bring you into the commercialization of Saving Dollars. With Earth Day coming up this April 22nd, we thought it would be an appropriate time to let you know about induction lighting systems as another way you can conserve energy and save significant additional money off energy bills, because we do care.
Technically speaking, an induction lighting system is viable and significantly more eco-friendly lighting solution that uses innovative technology in a system composed of three different components that work together to combine the principles of induction and gas discharge to deliver over 100,000 hours of white light. This system is historic, conceived by Tesla and now available for cost savings, yet, contemporary and innovational with today’s technology. According to Dave Miller, patent holder, “Induction lighting is based on technology that is fundamentally different from conventional gas sources or incandescent lamps. Instead of electrodes used in gas discharge lamps or the glowing filament of incandescent, light generation is by means of induction- the transmission of energy by way of a magnetic field – combined with a gas discharge.”

Not only that, an induction lighting systems also offer the following energy saving and maintenance benefits:

• There are no filaments or electrodes as in conventional lamps that are exposed to the effects of heat, vibration malfunction, or high electrical potential, and as a result are subject to deterioration of performance and finally to failure.
• Because the induced magnetic field can easily pass through the glass wall of the lamp bulb, no throughput wires are needed as in incandescent or discharge lamps, where the glass/metal junction is another vulnerable failure ar
• The high frequency power supply to the primary coil at 2.65 MHz – well outside normal broadcast and communication radio bands – ensures highly efficient energy transmission between the induction coil and the gas and metal vapor filling of the lamp bulb. Radiated energy levels close to an induction lighting system are no higher than from a distant radio transmitter while the UV radiated power is no more than that of a standard fluorescent lamp of the same power.

 

By the by, the economical benefits are significant: ADG also just completed a study that found for a big box store’s domestic chain, over a 12-year period we would create a savings opportunity of approximately $300,000,000 and 815,300 KW saved per year per big box, for 407,650,000 kWh throughout its locations in the U.S. The ROI (your Return on Investment) is increased when considering the savings in maintenance costs. The additional savings average’s increase will vary up to 11%. Eco-Friendly Bulb change out will occur at an average of 100,000 hours vs. the typical10,000 hour average to those ugly compact fluorescent. Also, every watt reduced in your lighting system results in a one-third watt reduction in your A/C load, while A/C is running.

Trying an induction lighting system is just one of many to help celebrate Earth Day this year. ADG urges you to think about your environmental impact this April 22nd, even if it’s a simple an act as turning off the light when you’re not in the room.

Chart/ Savings Calculator by Gerald Olesker

Dear Thomas,

There is actually a simple resolve to you question about a green revolution. I am the CEO and founder of a small company called Architectural Detail Group, inc. We are a partnership group enhancing the built environment’s needs thought positive relationships. About 5 months ago we launched and are developing a 36 month implementation plan for Eco friendly lighting. This is actually a combative but complimentary resolute to alternative energy sources. (Reduce consumption strengthens supplemental sources by using a smaller footprint, but is combative for those that are biased to a larger publicly traded revenue for their source only replacing existing energy/ power sources. The entire shift must be complimentary and for pro consumptive-reduction) http://www.architecturaldetailgroup.com/induction/

Sustainability is the key to early 21st century business development and growth. I am the also heading a new Green Affinity Industry Network for the Los Angeles chapter and our NY chapter of EO (Entrepreneurs Organization; combined the 200 members of our chapters generate 2 billion dollars in Revenue and are part of a global organization www.EOnetwork.org ) As Director at Large I am offering collaborative sources to your book. We are currently undergoing several surveys to better understand the impact of green in business. See EO listed stats below.

My company’s ADG Eco Lighting Products Division is a sustainable operation that provides Induction Lighting as the power reduction source in commercial, industrial and municipal lighting arenas. We calculate that the per watt savings of our Miller Induction lighting products will save on average 50% of those buildings lighting needs annually. i.e., we just calculated that a California based REIT would save 1 million dollars annually by replacing lights in 60 parking structures. This estimate has a 3+ year ROI and a 10 year life span. Running at 24 hours per day that is an additional 7 million dollars back to their bottom line. Another study for a big box retailer is 300 million dollars saved in a 12 year period http://www.adgwebnet.com/blog/blogengine.net/post/2008/04/Induction-Lighting-Systems-Saves-Big-Money.aspx . Our largest obstacle to date is the power companies that do don’t truly want to see the reduction occur since it is revenue reduction to them.

The industry should evolve much quicker since we are on the coat tails of a 120 year old technology and overseas this has been a SOP for municipalities and companies to adapt. This is a multi billion dollar industry that the big guys do not want you to know about. They stand to loose billions to stock holder so while at a boutique level we are happy to infuse our knowledge and rational to those who are willing to listen and those who purchase from ADG Eco Lighting Products.

From a pure grass roots movement here in the US we are the California, North Carolina, Seattle, Gainesville, Chicago and Atlanta distributor of Miller Induction Lighting. http://www.architecturaldetailgroup.com/induction/video.htm. Our projections are huge and should be largely successful since the Cost Benefit Analysis we are computing for many companies involves a simple but multi layered opportunity. We have addressed obstacles and issues in this manner; a brief Energy survey of the lights in facilities will typically compute to a 1 to 4 year ROI that has a product life of 20 years virtually maintence free.

Conceptually this immediately provides a source for a high yield return that can be financed only through our source at Manufactures Bank and Élan Leasing. http://www.architecturaldetailgroup.com//induction/materials/ADG%20Induction%20Lease%20Package.pdf This then falls into the category of lease payments that may be 100% tax deductible- Avoids obsolescence and related risks- Finance 100% of equipment cost and related soft costs- Tailored payments to meet cash flow needs- Preserve working capital and keep lines of credit open- Flexible terms structured to meet your company’s needs- Fixed monthly investment through out the term of your lease. Little know about the incentives such as portion of the Stimulus Act of 2008 that has increased the eligibility for Section 179 tax deductions by qualifying new equipment purchases up to $250,000. Previously, the code limited the deduction to purchases up to $128,000. The equipment must be placed in service by the end of the calendar year to be recognized for this benefit. Due to inflation, equipment and deduction amounts will likely be adjusted in upcoming years. We are also placing a nation wide Green Recycling program for 2009 that continues the link to providing additional revenue but also alternative job opportunities for a Waste and Recycling collection company.

If I may continue with, the Term “Greening a Revolution” rather than the Green Revolution, The ideal is that with a consideration to where consumption occurs you reduce that consumption and take an alternate position or product that requires less consumption it creates a new revenue source. While in the short run it can and will displace revenue form the existing entity it will eventually with what I feel would be rapid succession replace and strengthen the industry. Innovation is Green, Reinvention and revelation is Green. Implementation with obstacles is business and implementation with acceptance is good business.

I am not an economist but I am an innovator, a CEO, a founder that has identified several areas other than lighting that can transfer opportunity that will shift job responsibility and help to heal our current bleed-out then strengthen the future.

To evolve as taken from Wikipedia is …”in, evolution refers to changes in the inherited traits of a population … from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection. …(and) are passed on to …. produce the inherited traits that are the basis of evolution. These traits vary within populations, with ….. showing heritable differences in their traits. …(and), … may have new or altered traits.” The Greening of a Revolution” allowing a shift in the policies of large and small businesses supported by mandates and regulated by oversight will and can produce alternate selections only if supported by the mandate and not stifled by the origins. Industry growth demands this. If not, i.e. we should all be using gas burning lights not the light bulb we all know. But dangerously the Green Washing and marketing objectives of the larger than life GE and Sylvania’s of the world underscore that competition from the small guy is not good and the sloshing along of the same product with minor variation has become an acceptable perspective- and should not be. As an EOer and part of the 2/3 of the American Backbone, small businesses, it is my mission to shout from the highest mountain top that the big boys are wrong. Or at least in our corner of an evolving business to begin a climb and ask for support from the communities we know will be accepting of the message.

Another recent product that we have taken on is the Eco friendly tile spacer. This small item the size of a quarter represents a 500 million dollar per year industry and produces just from the construction waste 2 football stadiums per year in waste. Currently as a petroleum based product it also created toxic waste during its products as well as after use disposal. The inventor of the Thin Set Tile Spacer has a small following but the innovation of this product stands to be bullied by a larger than life industry supplied by big box retailers. http://www.adglighting.com/search.asp?keyword=tile Through another grass roots effort we are helping to guide and direct the potentials of this little but mighty one shot one use no waste product (a widget). Though licensing, manufacturing and altering the form of function we know we this will evolve as well.

The “Greening of a Revolution” is about the bottom line dollar. A Green Revolution is about change. Less consumption of just these two products will ripple though construction, replacement, building management and the Eco-centric industries. One of my favorite architects Meis VandeRohe said “less is more”. Little did we know in the 20th century that less consumption in just two industries would provide more opportunity, or cash in the next century.

Best,
Gerald Olesker
CEO/ founder ADG, inc,
Director at Large – EO, Los Angeles
EO Statistics
Total sales of all members worldwide: More than US$101 billion
Total members worldwide: More than 7,000
Total number of workers that members employ worldwide: 924,000
Total number of chapters worldwide: 113
Number of countries represented: 38
Average member age: 39
Average member sales: US$14.4 million per year
Average member employees: 131

This is an open response to the Trustees of Lincolnwood and the opportunity that they are missing with the street light improvements.

An $8.12 million dollar Tax use lighting upgrade plan is fantastic. BUT, the Trustees with all due respect have been feed some misinformation. Now, I may be a Californian, born and raised in the land of Golden opportunity, however, a part of my roots came from Chicago. I also may have a huge bias towards Green and Sustainable lighting programs since I am the CEO of a small Eco Lighting Products Company with 17+ years of experience.

President Elect Obama and congressional leaders have discussed structuring infrastructure deals that may require spending in the “green jobs” arena providing funds for energy efficiency project. And, yes a recent exhibit at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA, even reflects back to an era of government backed jobs. The Sunday, November 9th, Los Angeles Times front page even reads Economists see revival of an old fix, Public works projects once dismissed as too slow, are on the table again. Obama backs the FDR-era ideas.

It does no take a rocket scientist, or in our case an enthusiastic employee and lighting engineer at ADG Eco Lighting Products to recognize that P.E. Obama and Green leaders are right, That the folks at public works departments around our nation have given us structure and sub structure since we live and interact in the built environment. It does take one or two individuals at Public Utility companies to quash the idea that Green and Sustainable street lighting is not efficient. This is a self serving prognosis some power companies give to the lay-people or agencies and engineers that do not understand the implications of sustainability. They do understand that the bottom line – yes the public utilities bottom line - is being affected by the so called mandates of “Green our country up”.

Now, in plain English, for everyone who reads this comment back to Kathy Routliffe’s article Lincolnwood OK-D 5 year plan to Improve Street Lights. The advocates for the use of metal halide street lights are wrong. Based on our recent studies this is why we respond in this manner; recently a developer asked me to examine the possibilities of using our Induction Lighting Products and our Decorative Street Lights for a new community that is being built. I was put in contact with the pleasant folks of the Los Angeles County Street Lighting Division who were gracious enough to hear ADG Eco Lighting Products reasons as to Why Induction Lights would work.. First off they would save 50% of the energy used against metal halide (which are for some reason considered Green) For those of you who do not know what Induction Lights are the brief explanation is they are a phosphorus coated bulb that produce light though Magnetic Resonance. It is a 120 year old technology.

Well, to my surprise Los Angeles County Street Light Division is under Contract with Southern California Edison to provide, maintain and place street lights. Great, I sent them to review our site at www.adgEcoLightingProducts.com (this is to inform all about what, why and how come SCE disregarded induction lights completely). So the team at SCE was nice enough to hear me out via phone conference. And when we were done, they said “Induction just does not calculate out”. This is the same tone and response that the good people of Lincolnwood have just received from the Gewalt Hamilton representatives. Now I do not know the specifics of their argument, I do hear and see the writing on the walls. The cost of replacing street lights while it may be a hefty bill, it can be off-set with an approximate 3 year ROI and 15 year high yield return through the use of Miller induction Lights. Why would the Trustees of the city want to use the Induction Light technology to reduce consumption 50%? This would actually put millions of dollars back into the City General fund, while reducing the bottom line at the power company, and it meets the standards that our President Elect Obama is referencing, and that the Bush Government mandated that we not use incandescent light sources any more. Our county is shouting, give us jobs, give us savings and give us opportunity, while we should divest in foreign oil consumption. So utilizing Induction Lights in many applications is part of the resolution I will continue to claim this until I have helped save our nation 1 watt at a time.

Induction lights, at least from my biased perspective, meet all of the requirements of energy savings, and deferred maintence by 10 times that of many existing street lights, therefore, providing additional tax dollars to be spent in other service areas. They provide a safer and cleaner and all around applicability that the rest of the world has used for years. And if you need confirmation, check out our beautiful Golden Gate Bride at night. It has been lit with induction bulbs for quite some time.

With respect and admiration to the Lincolnwood Trustees, All those that have given them advise and the people of its communities,

Gerald Olesker

CEO/ founder Architectural Detail Group, inc & ADG Eco Lighting Products are part of a partnership group enhancing the built environment’s needs through positive relationships.