Hiroshi Amano Japanese Nobel Laureate: LED lighting can effectively save electricity

According to Japanese media reports, because of the development of blue light-emitting diode (LED) won the Nobel Prize in Physics Nagoya University professor Hiroshi Amano, local UNESCO in Paris Feb. 8 (UNESCO) headquarters in speech He pointed out that "before the end of 2020 will be lighting the way into LED, can save 7% (Japan) domestic electricity consumption."

Japanese media said, when Amano confided his speech last century, research in the 1980s with the award-winning tenured professor at Meijo University Isamu Akasaki sects hidden in the hearts of ambition. He said: "It was already recognized, if successful will change the world."

Amano day also describes the role of the blue LED energy conservation and sustainable development, tells them to overcome the lack of funds, after many experiments fail only successful development process. He then picked up a blue LED sample and said, "It brings to people's lives beyond the expected changes."

Amano said that affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Japanese "nuclear power plant outage, power generation costs rise," and emphasized that "before the end of 2020 will be transformed into illumination LED can save 7% of domestic electricity consumption."

It is reported that the speech was part of the special session of the UNESCO Executive Board.