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The truth about LEDs

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    On en parle
  • 28 October 2014
  • Libero Zuppiroli
    • Sciences de base, EPFL
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A Nobel Prize-winning technological revolution, are energy-efficient LEDs as environmentally friendly as they're made out to be? Because beneath a flattering pedigree, these bulbs conceal rare earths. Should we banish them for all that?

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