In article , Joseph Meehan wrote:
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?

The only thing on the scope that I know of are LED's and I suspect we
will be seeing a lot of them in the next five years. CF's may well go down
and be replaced with LED's.

This is going to happen, and I like LEDs, but given the rate at which
LEDs have been advancing in efficiency and overall cost-effectiveness I
think it will be at least a decade before most home lighting is done with
LEDs.

LEDs have had incremental advances, so far almost specialty by specialty
for now. They work great in flashlights since they excel in lower wattage
battery-powered applications, and they excel in traffic signals since
incandescents are compromised in efficiency there by long-life design and
color filters removing some of their light while LEDs normally prefer to
specialize in producing colored light.

- Don Klipstein )