Lasers brighten light bulb's future

Lot of new lighting ideas turning up these days, including higher efficient incandescent’s—apparently General Electric were going to make their own version but seem to be putting it on hold depending on the proposed US ban on incandescent light bulbs.

There are often proposals to “wait for better lighting (like LEDs) so that light bulbs can be banned”

In reality consumers will buy attractive LEDs, leading to a smaller share of the market for ordinary light bulbs. Therefore a ban isn’t needed as long as there are competitive alternatives to incandescent light bulbs.

People can of course make up their own minds whether or not energy cost is worth it in relation to light bulbs and the advantages they have, and they might be in rooms/lamps that are not used that often anyway, so that energy savings hardly come into it, compared to upfront light bulb cost (potentially $100 for LED’s compared to a few dollars for a incandescent bulb).

As for emissions, wouldn’t it make more sense to improve the efficiency of the power plants than change everyone’s light bulb?