In article %V49i.278473$DE1.187072@pd7urf2no, Noozer wrote:

Those compact fluorescents are going to be the next big environmental mess
on the scale of MtBE!

I hear that GE has an incandesent that is at least as efficient as a CFL...
Anyone have any details?

As efficient as CFLs are, they are relatively complicated devices. There
must be other solutions out there that doesn't involve such a complicated
device for such a simple task.

The efficient GE incandescent has less than half the efficiency of a
CFL. It is HIR, which is halogen with infrared retroflection technology.
An example is a 350 watt tubular halogen with light output close to that
of a 500 watt more-ordinary halogen, or close to that of about 150-170
watts of compact fluorescents.
It improves upon other incandescents and halogens that have 1/3 or less
the efficiency of CFLs.

- Don Klipstein )