Goodbye, fluorescent light bulbs: New lighting technology won't flicker, shatter or burn out

Phys.org ^ | December 3, 2012 | NA

[TigersEye]

The libs couldn't wait for technology to find a marketable solution and wasted loads of time and money mandating CFLs and demonizing incandescent lights. Well, here it is, most likely. Cheaper to use than CFLs, better light quality, unbreakable, no mercury vapor risks and moldable to unlimited forms.

Where do we go to get that eco-wacko-wasted money back?

[DesertRhino]

If it ain’t 35 cents a bulb, it’s no improvement.

[Usagi_yo]

“field-induced” — sounds an awful like EM transmissions. I wonder what the Human race is going to look like 10,000 years from now. Will we be born ‘wired in’ with our own biological network receivers?

That is of course if we survive.

[Nowhere Man]

“field-induced” — sounds an awful like EM transmissions. I wonder what the Human race is going to look like 10,000 years from now. Will we be born ‘wired in’ with our own biological network receivers?

That is of course if we survive.

I seem to remember something similar that came out in the 1970's to this, but I can't remember the specifics.

I keep thinking if the old Zager and Evans song, "In the Year 2525....."

I know they had electroluminescence back in the 1950's, I have an old Life Magazine from 1956 that showed a whole room lit up with electroluminescent panels made by Westinghouse here in Pittsburgh. The 1960 Chrysler Imperial had an electroluminescent dashboard.

[tallyhoe]

If it ain’t 35 cents a bulb, it’s no improvement.

It won’t be!!!

[Usagi_yo]

Heck, take a regular florescent light and hold it next to a CB antenna and key the mic.

[VanShuyten]

Sounds good, but might not be intense enough to replace a 100 watt bulb.

[Red Badger]

So, these bulbs are ‘neverdim’?.........

[greeneyes]

I bought a life time supply of 100 watt bulbs. We don’t often use them, so it’s not as bad as it sounds. But we sometimes use them for heat for things like plants outdoors that might be killed by really freezing temps, or maybe an engine that needs a little warmth in order to start in the AM.

[celmak]

Love the first comment in the article's website:

These filthy scientists are a threat to America's Light Bulb Freedom act.

If God wanted man to use Luciferian glowing devil sticks then he wouldn't have given the world the glory and beauty of the incandescent light. God's shining light.

Stop them while there is still freedom to be had.

[GingisK]

The “Real McCoy” is still available at newcadescent.com.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

OK I see these are invented in America.

If production to replace the existing fluorescent bulbs is based in AMERICA, I’m all for this.

If it’s yet another scam to buy a bunch of imported bulbs, I say keep it unchanged.

[Nowhere Man]

I know, I once talked to someone who went to medical school in Mexico. They lived under the shadow of a 100kW AM station and when they need light, they brought out a few florescent bulbs from the closet and the station lit them up very bright and they studied that way. To “turn them off,” they put them back in the closet. That’s one way to save on the light bill. B-)

[GOPJ]

Where do we go to get that eco-wacko-wasted money back?

The refund department of the Bureau of Stupid Liberal Ideas is where you'll get your money back - it's located a stone's throw from NASA... the EPA also has a satellite office in DC.

[Fresh Wind]

Those 100 watt bulbs are nearly 100% efficient as heaters. If they were marketed as such, they would get an EnergyStar award.

[ArrogantBustard]

If it ain’t 35 cents a bulb, it’s no improvement.

I wish we had a truly free market in lighting technology, so that you could indulge your short-sightedness with impunity.

[greeneyes]

LOL. I never thought about it that way. LOL.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

This new lighting solution is at least twice as efficient as compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs and on par with LEDs, but these bulbs won't shatter and contaminate a home like CFLs or emit a bluish light like LED counterparts.

I've used and preferred CFLs for more than a decade, and it's abundantly clear that the older bulbs (some of which have just now had to be replaced) were much better than the cheap POSes being sold now. The new ones literally burn out in one or two uses about 20% of the time. I replaced three pretty dim bulbs in an old fixture at my mom's house with three much brighter and cooler CFLs, and literally the next time I turned it one, one was burned out.

The Dollar Tree is selling two packs of CFLs, I have a couple boxes but haven't tried them yet. Maybe tonight.

LEDs are underpowered and overpriced, and the gov't jackasses don't mandate direct comparisons between bulb types, IOW, it's a struggle to find Lumens on some of these, and that's the dealbreaker when one tries to use 'em. LEDs are supposed to be more efficient, yet when I add up the watts needed for the expensive multiple bulbs required to equal the light output of one CFL, they use more electricity.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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