GAWD! FINALLY
Its about time! Its true that LEDs don't have a wide color spectrum,
and that is a problem, thats why you might not want to replace all
the lights in your house just yet. Get a few and see how they are,
the first two I had (a decade ago) hurt my eyes after a while.
Hopefully by the time the gov'mit phases out incandescents they're
have more of the problems fixed with CFL and LEDs. LEDs have a color
spectrum problem and CFLs flicker (some people even vomit if around florescent too long) There are a couple other promising lighting
technologies too, but generally the gov'mit doesn't think about the
problems with there legislation before passing it. Tax incentives
aren't a bad idea, encouraging companies to no longer manufacture incandescents is a little worse. Illegalizing them would be
completely unconstitutional. In a half a century a significant
portion of civilian consumer power will be generated clean and
local. Its likely we'll be generating more power than we can use
driving down the cost of power. Only people in apartment complexes
(places without enough real estate to generate the power) will be
buying very much power. Part of this will be because power efficiency will increase to the point when there is absolutely no
demand for it to increase further.
You can graph the growth for this stuff and extrapolate to see for
yourself.
