(1) About 99% of the energy advantage available from fluorescent lighting was achieved in the past as all large buildings and systems (factories, stores, schools, ....) were converted by 1952. Household lighting use isn't big enough to worry about.
(2) The Avant Garde are already converting the far more efficient, cooler and better looking LED systems.
(3) China itself, the major manufacturer of CFLs, is leaping ahead to LED systems ~ where we, the USA, have all the patents and manufacturing capacity.
There are no other meaningful points to be made. If you want to keep futzing around with incandescents, go to it. I don't care.
“There are no other meaningful points to be made. If you want to keep futzing around with incandescents, go to it. I don’t care.”
Well, forgive me for being late to the party, woefully uninformed, and “unenlightened.” Mercy me, I’ve never seen a forum about this topic and did not know it was being overdiscussed. My issue is not so much all the technicalities and old arguments (and my ignorance of them), but the PRINCIPLE of the thing. Yeah, the incandescent is going the way of the horse and buggy, but some of us LIKE their streamlined shape and aura. At the very least, I should hang onto one. Might be a valuable antique someday.