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Oct 08 2007 12:00am EDT

The Death of the Incandescent Bulb

Dan Gross gives us the incandescent light bulb's obituary, mentioning only one problem with its replacement, the compact fluorescent: that CFLs aren't bright enough to help German chancellor Angela Merkel find things she's dropped on her carpet. He neglects to mention the color issue (for some reason CFLs always seem to tend to the blue) or a bigger problem: the lack of dimmability. When someone starts making warm, dimmable CFLs, then I'll buy the death of the incadescent. But not until. Frankly, I suspect that the real incandescent-killer will be LED bulbs, not CFLs at all.

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