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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki
They (compact fluorescent lamps) were truly unpopular - both with their target-victims and with us utility-company investors. Holding-back a decade, by which time LEDs had become the only sensible energy-efficiency option, would have made far greater economic- and environmental-sense.
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Agree. But LED technology was not as well developed, nor was it obvious 'back then' that LED's would get to be as good as they have become. CFL's was a blind alley - a bit like steam cars - but we nevertheless learned a lot from them. And they still got us well on the road to lower energy lighting.