[net.consumers] lightbulbs - question

pathy@omssw1.UUCP (Mohan Venkatachalapathy) (05/17/86)

In article <5436@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>I have heard that those "lightbulb saver" gadgets (which I think, by
>the way, are not thermistors but diodes) are not worth the money.
>Reason: light bulbs are less efficient at lower temperatures.
>If instead of using a diode you replace the light bulb with one of
>lower wattage that gives the same amount of light, the extra efficiency
>will save you enough electricity to pay for the light bulb by the
>time it burns out.

 While we are on lightbulbs - are there any fluoroscent(sp?) lamps that
produce light in almost the same spectral range (that warm yellow glow) 
as incandescent bulbs?