Enter the Sansi 30W LED bulb, kindly provided by Sansi for our review, a very high output LED light that is built well enough to withstand the test of time, and whose light quality is good enough to use in a showroom. And it doesn’t come at an unreasonable price, with $30 being completely reasonable in my book for such a well-engineered product. (Discount code at end)

Light Quality

One of the biggest issues with LED bulbs is the quality of the light output. In most situations around the house, you can’t tell the difference. But when you’re trying to show off your products in a display case, such as art or clothing, sometimes it becomes a bit more important to get something with a good CRI, or color rendering index. This bulb takes care of that, with a CRI of 80+, which means that it should be very good at accurately representing natural light of whatever it falls on.

In my case, I use it for YouTube videos, and I trust it to act as a natural light for my recording area.

Build Quality

Normally I wouldn’t touch on this issue with a light bulb, but Sansi’s attention to detail really stood out to me.

One of the biggest components of this bulb is the Power Supply Case, which is actually a gigantic heatsink. It is able to draw heat away from the components in order to preserve its lifespan. It’s clear that Sansi has put a lot of thought into this, since the bulb has a good heft to it and feels absolutely solid. I even tried to take it apart to look into, but I wasn’t able to get it open.

There have been a lot of LED bulbs I’ve tried that have failed after a few months, often due to heat issues. Especially on super high power bulbs like this one, heat is a very important factor to consider, but I can’t see this bulb presenting any issues even after long term use.

If that isn’t enough to convince you, Sansi backs their product up with a 5 year warranty.

Light Output

For a high power light bulb, this might be the most important specification. I don’t have anything to test this with, but its rating of 200 watt/3000 lumens equivalent seemed absolutely accurate. The bulb blew me away (like, seriously, it hurts to look at) with how bright it is. It can easily light up a whole room.

The color temperature is very cold, which is good for a bright bulb targeted at warehouse, showroom, or garage use. It isn’t some inviting for a home setting, but that’s not its intended use case anyway.

I would highly recommend this light bulb to anyone needing a very bright LED light, or maybe for a friend for Christmas.

Sansi has offered us a 12% off code for Gazette Review readers at their Amazon page while using the code ULANDING.

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Dutch Engineers say that the experiment has proven more successful than expected in their 70-meter test track, built last year along a bike path on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Over 150,000 cyclists have ridden over the panels thus far.

In six months, the panels under the road generated enough electricity to power a single person home for a year, which is the equivalent to about 3,000 kWh.

“If we translate this to an annual yield, we expect more than the 70kwh per square metre per year,” says Sten de Wit, spokesman for SolaRoad,  which has been developed by a public-private partnership.

“We predicted [this] as an upper limit in the laboratory stage. We can therefore conclude that it was a successful first half year.”

The project used cost-effective materials to ensure that it is practical for large-scale installation. The panels were sandwiched between layers of glass, silicon-rubber, and concrete.

In terms of weight limits, Arian de Bondt, director at Ooms Civiel, one of the companies working on the project, explains that it “can have a fire brigade truck of 12 tonnes without any damage.” However, he also explained that they are working on a version that will be able to handle large busses and other vehicles, allowing the technology to be used on motor vehicle roads.

The system has resiliency and intelligence, too. The panels are connected to computer-equipped smart meters, which optimize their output into the grid, or allowing them to feed street lighting systems.

Developing the system took five years of research and testing. Six months after the first trial system was deployed, a small section of a coating used to give extra grip to the surface started to peel. Researchers say that this was due to sun exposure and temperature fluctuations, causing the coating and road surface to expand and contract. As a result of this, the engineers are now working on an improved version of the coating to mitigate this issue.

“We made a set of coatings, which are robust enough to deal with the traffic loads but also give traction to the vehicles passing by,” said Stan Klerks, a scientist at Dutch research group TNO.

Naturally, using solar panels, light transparency was an important consideration. Researchers had to design the slabs to transfer as much light as possible to the solar cells. Any obstruction of the light is detrimental to the efficiency of the system, which can make it less financially viable.

The group of organizations working to push this forward is now in talks with local governments to roll the technology out in other provinces. They have also signed a cooperation agreement in the United States, California.

“Solar panels on roofs are designed to have a lifetime, which is typically 20/25 years,” said de Wit. “This is the type of lifetime that we also want for these types of slabs. If you have a payback time of 15 years then afterwards you also have some payback of the road itself so that makes the road cheaper in the end.”

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This is exactly what Jeff Waters did, after saying that a homeless man had sold him a check for $100 that he claimed could be “[written] for any amount” that he desired. The check was issued by the Bank of Idaho in the 90s.

Waters made the check out to “cash,” and wrote his desired $368 billion amount, with the goal of building the best Italian restaurant in the world.

Upon searching Waters, police found bath salts and Chinese throwing stars on him. He was arrested for possession of these items plus forgery of a check. He was released after posting $23,000 bail.

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In a statement to The Verge, uTorrent’s parent company, BitTorrent, confirmed that Epic Scale was bundled intentionally, but denied that it was being installed without user consent. . “We have reviewed the issue closely and can confirm there is no silent install happening…. Most likely these users accepted the offer during install.” While I can confirm that for me, the software did ask whether I would like to install Epic Scale, it was an opt-out rather than opt-in service, and unsuspecting users who just click continue would never see the prompt. While it is not dangerous, it could be a performance sucking piece of bloat on your computer.

BitTorrent support claimed that Epic Scale software is “easy to uninstall”, but affected users have claimed otherwise. Numerous reports have said that the software does not appear in Windows’s list of uninstallable software, and requires anti-malware software to properly uninstall.

Botnet owners, or people who have control over many computers, will often use cryptocurrency mining software on their “zombie” computers to generate a profit for them. The inclusion of this Litecoin mining software into uTorrent essentially allows BitTorrent to amass a network of computers collectively generating this internet currency for them. Unfortunately, the fact that this is an opt-out rather than opt-in type service means that many unsuspecting users will get this software on their computers without first giving permission.

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