Just blogged about Microsoft testing of underwater data centers and now comes this equally fascinating article regarding the potential end of compact florescent lights, or CFLs…

It’s the beginning of the end for CFL bulbs

Having (coincidentally, I assure you) just bought a pack of CFL bulbs, the above article by Lily Hay Newman for Slate.com nonetheless does not surprise me.  I’ve noticed the growing presence of LED bulbs…

…and heard they were an even better energy usage and light producing alternative to the CFL bulbs, which in turn were a much better, long lasting, more energy efficient bulb than the old filament bulbs.  What kept me from buying them was what kept me from going into CFLs at first: Price.

But the price of LED lights is dropping and becoming more competitive to the CFL bulbs.  They are clearly a better choice than the CFL bulbs as even GE, a company that makes many electronics including light bulbs, has already decided to discontinue making CFL bulbs.

While the CFL technology is dead quite yet, the writing is clearly on the wall and I seriously doubt we’ll be seeing CFL bulbs for all that much longer.

Perhaps what amazes me the most is how quickly we’ve moved from the regular, not so long lasting (and very hot) bulbs to CFL bulbs to, now, LED bulbs.

Sometimes technology moves at a breakneck speed!