On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:19:35 -0600, Don Y
wrote:

On 1/11/2016 8:47 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

The bright boys at MIT think they have a new, really efficient
incandescent.
From the U.K. Telegraph: http://preview.alturl.com/yttys

(bad pun intended)

(sigh) Typical "fluff" story -- media just "retweeting" press releases.
Why can't "they" actually investigate things instead of just repeating
what someone else (who obviously has a bias/interest) has told them?

E.g., what are the issues standing between "it" and "production"?
What are the *likely* costs going to be if it was sold in HUGE
volumes, *today*? Of those, which can be improved upon with techological
advances and which are "hard limits"?

I.e., how much of a pipe dream *is* this?


Curiosity supposedly killed the cat. It will just cost the cat a few
bucks depending on how curious the cat is.
This http://preview.alturl.com/n4apo leads to the original article
in the publication referenced at the end of the Telegraph story.


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