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Lucradia
March 9th, 2011, 02:20 AM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20040695-54.html

LEDs + Silicon = 75% cost-reduction.

This means you'll probably see more A19s soon. (A19 is the standard bulb socket, for those who didn't know.)
MisterGaribaldi
March 9th, 2011, 03:04 AM
Well, at least they don't have crazy mercury in them and pose a Hazmat clean-up situation if they break like the "environmentally friendly" (*cough*bullcrap*cough*) lightbulbs. I don't own any of them and absolutely refuse to. Either I run normal flourescents, incandescents, or LEDs, but that's it.

One day I will live in a dark house because I will no longer be able to buy lightbulbs that I'm willing to buy.
Lucradia
March 9th, 2011, 03:21 AM
normal flourescents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent_lamp


A fluorescent lamp or fluorescent tube is a gas-discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor.

ESL is the one you really want if you want Fluorescent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_stimulated_luminescence