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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:37:44 GMT, "James Sweet"
wrote:

Who
knows what else might be on the horizon.

Aluminum foil lamps outshine incandescent lights
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0604lamps.html




That's interesting, however it states it uses a gas plasma to excite a
phosphor coating, so for all practical purposes it's a fluorescent lamp and
will have the same light characteristics.