[LINK] GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

"We'd better open the emergency patent drawer!"

Your remark, Frank, sent me on a spot of Googling. The oldest General 
Electric patent covering "high efficiency incandescent" that I could 
find in a couple of minutes dated back to 1985!

RC

Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Amazing how fortuitous these 'Great Leaps Forward' in design are, 
> isn't it?
>
> I mean ... here we have a press item about a couple of governments 
> seeking to mandate more energy efficient lighting alternatives, and 
> (insert shock and amazed disbelief here) a coincidence par excellence 
> ... a major manufacturer of the offending item (incandescent bulbs) 
> suddenly announces that they have a much more energy efficient 
> alternative in the works.
>
> You gotta hand it to those lighting (power company) boffins ...
>
>                         Regards,
>
> At 9:15 AM +1100 27/2/07, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>> Leading on from the incandescent/fluorescent debate it seems we have 
>> to wait a while yet... (stupidly long URL)
>>
>> http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/?epi_menuItemID=989a6827590d7dda9cdf6023a0908a0c&epi_menuID=c791260db682611740b28e347a808a0c&epi_baseMenuID=384979e8cc48c441ef0130f5c6908a0c&ndmViewId=news_view&newsLang=en&div=946895406&newsId=20070223005120 
>>
>>
>> New High-Efficiency Lamps Targeted for Market by 2010
>>
>> "GE Consumer & Industrial's Lighting division, a world leader in the 
>> development of energy-efficient lighting products, today announced 
>> advancements to the light bulb invented by GE's founder Thomas Edison 
>> that potentially will elevate the energy efficiency of this 
>> 125-year-old technology to levels comparable to compact fluorescent 
>> lamps (CFL), delivering significant environmental benefits. Over the 
>> next several years, these advancements will lead to the introduction 
>> of high-efficiency incandescent lamps that provide the same high 
>> light quality, brightness and color as current incandescent lamps 
>> while saving energy and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions."
>>
>> -- 
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