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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dhouston on January 11, 2016, 04:19:20 PM
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http://phys.org/news/2016-01-photonics-reshape-spectrum-edison-bulb.html (http://phys.org/news/2016-01-photonics-reshape-spectrum-edison-bulb.html)
And they won't spew noise that interferes with X10.
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Interesting article thank you for posting.
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I saw this and thought the same thing. As long as CFL dies, I'll be happy. They are cheap enough these days, but if the goal is to save the world I'm not sure how using heavy metals in the new bulb is ideal.
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It's kinda ironic. CFLs have been around for a long time (ConEd was pushing them in the mid-80's - mine died after ~6 weeks.) but it was the CFL manufacturers who bankrolled the tree-huggers who lobbied for killing incandescents to save the world (despite the almost unmeasurable effect - literally about the same as stopping folks from spitting in the ocean). They really only created an opportunity for all of the LED makers who have come to dominate the market. I'm sure new incandescents will not be here for some time - I just hope I'll be here to see them. Maybe GE can even reopen their venerable Louisville glass envelope factory.
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My first thought when I read this was that it appears to be another clever trick, like halogen lamps, to rejuvenate the tungsten and make incandescents more efficient. But this trick doesn't require a gas and I guess the mechanics are different. It seems kind of ironic that after all the development put into cramming a switching power supply into every bulb to operate an alternate lighting source, the solution may be to go back to basics and just reexamine the mechanics. If this succeeds, efficient bulbs will have less components to fail and old 2-wire X10 switches should work as well with them as they ever did with incandescents. One more problem solved! Thanks for sharing, Dave H!