On May 30, 2:34*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Everyone knows common 60-watt incandescent bulbs are inefficient. In an
effort to find something better, the Department of Energy is funding the $1
million "L-PRIZE." It is hoped this incentive will spur innovation and
thereby cut our energy demands.

This is not a joke.

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/news/pro...ss_alert.asp?a...

If there were only some way of copying the contents of one sheet of paper
onto many, more could learn about this forward-thinking proposal.

Dont some new cfls almost meet the 17% criteria already at 70 LPW