If this were a football game, this story would resemble a dramatic, suspense-filled fumble. The "why should I care?" line is in the opposite end zone, right at the bottom. Ie, if the technology succeeds, there is no need for several pollution prone coal-fired power plants. The story is a mish-mosh of technical facts, which obviously an engineer told to a reporter who more or less understood, but couldn't quite manage to make us understand. Halfway through the story, I lost interest. Only scanning the rest to see if there were any nuggets of importance brought me to the zinger at the end that there were absolutely huge savings possible. Apparantly, the reporter did not know enough about the lighting business to ask a major trade ... More »

A fascinating peek into the future of lighting.