On a cold Denver night in 2010, Steve Katsaros walked past a building under construction that was lit up like a Christmas tree by incandescent bulbs strung along each floor, all powered by a diesel generator. “I wondered about all the fuel being used and the pollution caused by keeping those lights on,” he recalls. The next morning, Katsaros, then a patent agent at a law firm and a trained mechanical engineer, woke up and sketched a design for a solar-powered light bulb. Four days later, he filed for a patent.
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Republican Congressmen Fight for Inefficient Lightbulbs | Life’s Little Mysteries
Republican Congressmen are fighting to regain the right to use old-fashioned, extremely inefficient light bulbs that burn out.
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