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by wlesieutre 5466 days ago
CFL induction lamps might eventually resolve this, but at least for now they're priced out of the general market
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Induction lamps are getting big - but most people want to get rid of the mercury vapor arc entirely and go for solid state, that's a big enough advantage that energy efficiency almost doesn't matter.

Unfortunately, Switch didn't figure out that the light is no longer "solid state" when they added liquid to it - and that a non-toxic liquid is probably worse in many situations than a toxic vapor.