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Nov 2020

9m 26s

ELI5 LED Bulbs - why the blue one warran...

ELI5 Explain Like I'm Five Podcast

About this episode

What is so special about the blue variety of LED? Why do LEDs still get so hot if they are supposed to be energy efficient? If LEDs were invented in the 1960s, why have they only become popular in the last decade or two? Why did the blue LED warrant a Nobel Prize in Physics?

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