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BULB DISCUSSION BOARDS => Modern Electric Lighting => Topic started by: Christmas Lamp on January 12, 2016, 02:49:38 am

Title: Welcome back to REAL lightbulbs?:
Post by: Christmas Lamp on January 12, 2016, 02:49:38 am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394807/Light-bulbs-banned-EU-make-comeback-breakthrough-means-use-energy.html
Title: Re: Welcome back to REAL lightbulbs?:
Post by: Anders Hoveland on October 29, 2016, 04:34:15 am
It could be done, but realistically the technology is most likely not going to be pursued. It takes a lot of research money to develop a new basic technology like this, and currently most of the investment has been poured into LED. While there certainly is a niche application for "real incandescent" light that meets the new government-imposed efficiency demands, for most consumers and most commercial applications (which happens to constitute the majority of the market), the quality of LED light will be "good enough".

I wish they would commercialize this technology, but I am not hopeful. A lot of this media technology coverage tends to be oversensationalized.