What they don't tell you is that the bill will ban compact fluorescents by 2016. By 2020, the only known technology that will pass the 120 lumens per watt standard is the sodium (very yellow light) streetlamp and LED's with a very poor color-rendering index. There is a trade-off between inefficent incandescents with a CRI of 100 and very efficient monochromatic LED's with a CRI of zero. The bill mandates poor quality lighting
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What they don't tell you is that the bill will ban compact fluorescents by 2016. By 2020, the only known technology that will pass the 120 lumens per watt standard is the sodium (very yellow light) streetlamp and LED's with a very poor color-rendering index. There is a trade-off between inefficent incandescents with a CRI of 100 and very efficient monochromatic LED's with a CRI of zero. The bill mandates poor quality lighting