GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology

finfife writes to tell us that GE has announced an advancement in incandescent technology that promises to increase the efficiency of lightbulbs to put them on par with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL). "The new high efficiency incandescent (HEI(TM)) lamp, which incorporates innovative new materials being developed in partnership by GE's Lighting division, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and GE's Global Research Center, headquartered in Niskayuna, NY, would replace traditional 40- to 100-Watt household incandescent light bulbs, the most popular lamp type used by consumers today. The new technology could be expanded to all other incandescent types as well. The target for these bulbs at initial production is to be nearly twice as efficient, at 30 lumens-per-Watt, as current incandescent bulbs. Ultimately the high efficiency lamp (HEI) technology is expected to be about four times as efficient as current incandescent bulbs and comparable to CFL bulbs. Adoption of new technology could lead to greenhouse gas emission reductions of up to 40 million tons of CO2 in the U.S. and up to 50 million tons in the EU if the entire installed base of traditional incandescent bulbs was replaced with HEI lamps."The California legislature may want to revisit the wording of their proposed ban on incandescents (AB 722). How about mandating a level of efficiency rather than assuming that innovation can't happen?"

Just in time innovation?

[gsyswerda]

I didn't know you could do this kind of thing on a schedule!

Re:There are times

[Anonymous Coward]

"The fact that these lawmakers don't understand enough of the technology to make it workable really gets on my chimes."

Wait... are we talking lightbulbs or doorbells here??

Re:I don't believe it...

[j00r0m4nc3r]

Maybe they have a "Turbo" switch somewhere that will make my PC run even faster!

Re:There are times

[PitaBred]

Don't you know? Anon is only for cases where you say something trollingly controversial, not funny. Like "Windows Vista is the greatest thing since individually packaged pepper-jack flavor imitation cheese slices!"

...shit. Forgot to tick the "Post Anonymously" box...

Re:I don't believe it...

[plalonde2]

Pressing my turbo switch made my PC run slower. They all defaulted "on".

Re:There are times

[CorSci81]

Your biggest appliance is probably your electric shower, a powerful one is 10kW.

Electric shower? That sounds like a Darwin award waiting to happen...

Re:I don't believe it...

[JazzLad]

which I haven't driven ANYWHERE this week

You stayed home yesterday? It's only Monday... ;)

Re:Ugh

[Eccles]

Once system (to be used by Mercedes and other makers) requires a separate tank of some nasty liquid like urea which is injected into the exhaust - if the car runs out of this stuff, the computer won't let you drive the car any more.

Can you just pull over and pee in it?

Re:I don't believe it...

[seaturnip]

Overgeneralizing. Slashdotters like to take complicated and heterogeneous groups and make sweeping generalizations about them.

Re:There are times

[Jake73]

I replaced the bulb in my EZ-Bake oven with an LED one. It took 3 days to cook the first brownie.

Re:There are times

[Hyperspite]

Perhaps the people who haven't died are self selecting for posting frequency.

Re:Sometimes oldtech is better

[Shadyman]

Dry your paper?? Why was it wet in the first place?

You know, on second thought, I'm not sure I WANT to know.

Re: CFs fine if you don't need a true red

[esobofh]

It's not the light.. it's the BIG BAG OF MUSHROOMS you ate before turning them on.