In This Issue Plants, Light, and LEDs Part 8 LED Grow Lights at New York Farm Day Featured Distributor Far North Garden Supply Wasilla, AK 99654 1-907-376-7586 Anchorage, AK 99504 1-907-333-3141 Toll Free 1-866-560-3141 Vertical Gardening Featured Product: LGM3 Professional Bar Our LED grow light appropriate for all stages of plant growth. The LGM3 output is enhanced with extra blues and deeper reds. Encourages robust, compact growth and actively promotes blooming. Receive 10% off of your purchase of the LGM3 model in the month of November by simply mentioning that you are a reader of the LED Gardener. (Enter into Special Requests if using our website shopping cart.) Order now. 1-866-414-7244 Care to Comment? The LED Gardener appreciates all the input we receive from our readers. If you would like to submit an article or pictures; or if you would like to comment on a current article please send submissions and comments or questions to angela@led-grow-master.com You are receiving this email because you subscribed at led-grow-master.com If you do not wish to receive this newsletter :Request your name removed by emailing angela@led-grow-master.com Contact LED Grow Master Global: Admin@led-grow-master.com |
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When we measure light, what exactly are we measuring? A photon is a single packet of electromagnetic energy that has characteristics of both waves (such as the bending of light as it passes through a prism) and particles. For many years there were powerful debates over whether photons were waves or particles. The final result of many experiments is that photons have properties common to both waves and particles. While we commonly think of a photon as being a particle of light, all types of electromagnetic radiation, from low energy, long wavelength radio waves to high energy, short wavelength x-rays, are photons. That portion of the electromagnetic spectrum which we call "light" is only a very small part of the whole. But for our purposes we're only considering photons of light. The instruments used to measure light take advantage of the interaction of photons with matter. The actual mechanics of measuring light, in which either individual photons are counted or the rate at which photons strike a surface is measured, are generally accomplished using electronic components called photodiodes or photoresistors. These have the ability to measure the amount of light hitting them as the light modifies the electric current flowing through them. --CEO SolarOasis *******************************************************************************************************
New York Farm Day is a popular event hosted by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to showcase New York as a major agricultural state and home to some of the world's best food, wine, and chefs. Over 700 people made their way to the Senate Russell Caucus Room on Capitol Hill. The guest list included dozens of Senators, the New York Congressional delegation for the House of Representatives, members of the Committees of Agriculture, legislative chiefs of staff, agricultural specialists in Congress and the Administration, members of the Washington media, and our favorite-staff from the State University of New York. Dr. Mary Condon, Alfred State College executive assistant to the president, and Dr. Ronald R. Rosati, ASC provost and vice president for academic affairs displayed a table-top hydroponic production unit with lettuce growing under our very own LGM5 led grow lights. The unit represented a smaller version of the greenhouse in place at Alfred State's, Suny College of Technology. The program was initiated by Dr. Matthew Harbur, the Program Director of the Center for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture. Together with Dr. Harbur we have created a working greenhouse, successfully making use of the most efficient technology available. NFT (Nutrient Film Technique) channels and LGM5 led grow lights work 24 hours a day to supply lettuce for the college food court, and to the neighboring culinary college. In operation for almost a year, Alfred State's greenhouse has provided farmers in New York and elsewhere a viable model for year round production. With 35,000 farms in New York contributing over $3.4 billion annually to the states economy- increases in productivity and efficiency in agriculture offer a positive impact on the economy as a whole. --AL (Interested in seeing what's happening in the greenhouse now? Click Here.) Copyright 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED LED Grow Master Global, LLC |
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Electromagnetic Radiation and Radio Waves