A Super-Efficient Light Bulb

Chroniton writes with news of a Silicon Valley company, Luxim, that has developed a tiny, full-spectrum light bulb, based on a plasma of argon gas, that gives off as much light as a streetlight while using less power. The Tic Tac-sized bulb operates at temperatures up to 6000K and produces 140 lumens/watt, almost ten times as efficient as standard incandescent lamps, and twice the efficiency of high-end LEDs. The new bulbs also have a lifetime of 20,000 hours. There's no mention of mercury or other heavy metals, which pose a problem for compact fluorescents.

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Re:Light pollution

[Facegarden]

OMFG, are you kidding me? Most things are less important than cancer research, but if everyone subscribed to your line of thinking, no one would be solving ANY other problems... there'd be no more cancer, but everything else would suck. Do you really think that is a good idea? Besides, people working to reduce light pollution likely don't have the skills to cure cancer (biology, chemistry), so your point doesn't even make sense. I know you were just joking, but if you're going to make fun of people, you might try to avoid sounding like an idiot in the process, or in the end you'll be the one looking bad, not them. And better yet, why not just stop making fun of people who are trying to make a good point? -Taylor

as long as the CODE is clean

[alizard]

speaking as a Debian user, who cares?

The other obvious point is. . . anyone who shows up as "Anonymous Coward" with warnings about recognized members of a community is going to get ignored or laughed at even if he's right.

I'll start worrying when my program splash screens are covered with scat pr0n or GNAA sigs.