Since the electricity first goes from AC to DC, then back to AC, could a CFL be hacked to run on DC directly? Wouldn't that make it simpler/cheaper? How much efficiency could be reclaimed by bypassing the AC-to-DC step?
Hopefully LED lighting, which is much simpler, will also become much better and cheaper, and CFLs will become obsolete faster than incandescents...
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