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by Florin_Andrei 4591 days ago
It's difficult.

The CFL has a huge volume and a huge radiating area for the heat, and that area is well-connected thermally with the environment. Plus, it can operate at higher temperatures anyway.

The LED active element is a tiny chip of semiconductor material. All that heat is dumped in a tiny volume, and you can only put a heat sink on its back. Plus, the heat sink is close to the fixture and therefore necessarily hampered in its function.

It's not an easy problem to solve. If we think pie-in-the-sky solutions, perhaps a re-design of the connectors and fixtures might help - if you made a connector that was designed to take heat away from the bulb, that would help a lot; the whole fixture would become the heat sink.