The truth is incandescents are still winning. CFLs are great and all but toxic mercury is used to make them. So the only viable alternative at the moment are LEDs. They're getting cheaper to produce, clean, and last 30+ years. The hurdles are heat dissipation and illumination power. Frog Design believes they've figured out both.
Their bulb uses aluminum to channel heat out and away. The LED is powerful enough to disperse the same amount of light as an incandescent. It even looks like one to make the transition easier for consumers. It's not on the market yet but lets hope soon.
via YD
Sign me the hell up.
The idea of Mercury being used in mass production sucks. And I can't stand the coldness of those CFLs (and my wife hates them even more than me, so think Pulp Fiction's Jule's vegitarian comment.)
Hopefully these LEDs will have a color setting? Wouldn't that be freakin' cool? Maybe a little notched-twisty ring at the top of the threading? Take the user through a color spectrum to set their own tone?... esp. if these things are gonna last 30+ years.