[Freeport]

So after a single hit with a laser the 100W bulb now uses 40W and is brighter... EXCELLENT!!!! No more Hg & lead for CFB!!!

[PeterPrinciple]

too bad they are now illegal.....................

[Logical me]

To late. The King Obama machine has outlawed the bulb to be implemented in a few years. This piece of crap just don't understand that freeing Americans and progress will happen. Tie our hands and we will be living like a third world hut, shivering in the cold, society.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The pulse lasts a mere femtosecond, and delivers as much power as the entire grid of North America into a needle point size spot

What I am looking for, and haven't found, is what the TOTAL WATTAGE of the laser blast is. We know it is very quick, and we know it is VERY powerful.

But if power/time turns out to be greater than the power saved by the treatment, it won't be useful.

[Kansas58]

“guilt” ??

Anyone who feels guilty about a light bulb is a DIM BULB!

[Secret Agent Man]

The article never says the new bulb operates at 40 watts. It says ‘less than 60 watts’. Still neat they can do it, but what you are saying was not said in the article.

I would also hope they do some testing on these bulbs to determine lifetime operating ranges for it. They just altered the filament structure blasting it with a high energy laser - hopefully it doesn’t shorten the life of the bulb, or weaken the filament to where it breaks to easily.

[driftdiver]

Amazing what the free can come up with

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Interesting. If this is true, and I hope it is, it will be ignored by the mainstream media and the democrats because it would invalidate the stupid law they passed that bans incandescent bulbs. (The law that was NEVER reported on ANYWHERE in the mainstream media)

[Domandred]

Too late. The good light bulbs are already slated to be banned and they won’t be coming back without a company making and selling them on the black market or a revolution.

[SunkenCiv]

New approach offers more pleasant light of traditional bulbs without the energy guilt... Traditionally, incandescent light bulbs provide more pleasant light, however they lack the efficiency of fluorescent designs. The new bulb offers the brightness and color of a 100 watt incandescent bulb while using less than 60 watts.

My energy guilt level was already pretty low. Those having trouble with this, just think of Al Gore's mansion and his SUVs.

[SunkenCiv]

...an ultra-fast, ultra-powerful laser... pulse lasts a mere femtosecond, and delivers as much power as the entire grid of North America into a needle point size spot.

Huh?

[rawhide]

The pulse lasts a mere femtosecond, and delivers as much power as the entire grid of North America into a needle point size spot.

Whoa???