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First, the article mentions the Section 15.5 rules and considers the issues carefully.

Second, you are a moron. If you would go visit the company's site you would see them bragging of 80% efficency of transmision. While that's all well and good, 20% of your juice is a lot to throw away and I would not put these bright little bulbs in the environmentaly friendly catagory. Want clean domestic electricty? Start building nuclear power plants.

The crux of the problem is the limited and wasteful alocation of specturm by the federal government. Fusion lighting's boast of 80% efficiency came from a 430 MHz transmitter, not a magnetatron operating at the only frequency left open for people to use as they please. There are 69 channels on my TV reciever but only five broadcasters in my town, how about yours? If the FCC alows the abuse of 2.4 GHz it will be to protect conventional telcos, ISPs and large publishers from the freedom of expresion technology can give us. It will be a vastly stupid thing to do, but that's why comercial radio and TV is devoid of anything entertianing or educational.

There it is, plane as geometry. If you are in favor of wiping out all 2.4GHz comunication instead of allocating more spectrum to the people to use as they please, you have a pin head.

Yeah, well, you just give up too damned easy. Try this link.

No it has a "we have been slashdotted... Underconstruction page..."

Try The real start page

oops, sorry, meant this link.

This looks like a niche product. It's not even clear that Fusion Lighting is still in business. Their web site is essentially defunct. Their web site used to have some nice pictures of glass bulbs and more info, but now, it's just a starter page.

The front page of Fusion Lighting is blank, but Google can point you to a promotionalish page on Sulfur Lighting as well as a Technology Page.

The front page of Fusion Lighting is blank, but Google can point you to a promotionalish page on Sulfur Lighting as well as a Technology Page.

http://www.fusionlighting.com/technology.htm

Or, just weigh the $$$ involved. Which is a bigger industry, IT/Communications, or lighting manufacturers? Seems a no-brainer for the FCC. I fully expect them to re-regulate RF lighting.

Also, more info on RF Lighting can be found here.

The website it cites: Link is *still* blank at least a year after it was cited.

The article also goes into very little detail as to *why* this new lighting technology will be either popular nor necessary. It's vaguely referred to as "very high efficiency."

Summary: Call us when you have real news.

A few years back, ultra-efficient RF lighting technology was all over the news. So far that seems to be vaporware (no pun intended).