Beyond Basic Hotel Lighting

Matthew Sallee | September 10, 2015

by Matthew Sallee Light has been around as long as the human race. First came fire – primitive, serving a dual purpose of heating and illumination. Fire, as a technology, was around for thousands of years. Relatively recently, roughly a hundred or so years ago, incandescent light was invented. This light source remains in use today and is a relatively simple process - passing an electrical current through a resistor, which creates both light, and heat. In the last 60 or so years, newer technologies have appeared – fluorescent, low and high-pressure sodium, metal halide, compact florescent. While these are significantly more efficien...