Yep the government has set standards on energy conservation across the board. These standards get upped every year.
So we are producing more efficient lighting and LED's are the current trend that's filling that standard. Tomorrow the path will lead us to the newer lighting and then beyond.
I call it Government issued progress.
We used to have carbureted cars and trucks, then moved into electronically fuel injected, and now electric, tomorrow who knows.
The real fact is just like the metal halide fixtures of yesteryear, its old tech that uses to much electricity and bad things like mercury and phosphorus, not unlike florescent lamps do.
Just look at the shelves of any retailer in the USA, try and find a real ol-fashioned incandescent lamp, I bet you may find one small section on one shelf that has a few. The same is happening with the shelves of florescent fixtures and lamps.
So why would any retailer or manufacturer choose to make or carry products that are on the way out? Because the market is trending towards other products.
On a business standpoint the economics take hold as well.
The fewer fluorescent lamps that sell over time the worse it will get.
So we used to buy and sell 100,000 a month, and now we have had 60,000 sitting on the shelves for three months now. The manufactures call the wholesalers and say hey you arent buying as many now so you have lost your 30% discount and all we can do is 20% on small orders. Just like that your profit margins droped drastically as well.
Yet the LED world is ramping up to a new high. What would all you continue to invest in?
If you say fluorescents your lieing to yourself.
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