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tonycarrera | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I think this is partially true.

LED’s are just efficient showing only wavelengths you can see.

Traditional halogen and incandescents are just controlled tiny fires. Most of the energy is wasted in heat rather than visible light.

I wouldn’t say LED’s are an inferior product based on that.
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wombat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Correct
Like a noisy hot engine with wasted energy.
In this case though we are getting unwanted excess which can be a detriment. So this is a much better example of tech giving us  everything we got before and only cutting what was considered totally useless (unless you like the sound of loud v8s 😁

The difference..

The heat caused from the resistance in the tungsten filament with the flow of electrons is similar but the warmth is of little annoyance maybe sometimes welcome but for our discussion we are only considering the visual spectrum at this stage.

The loss of the overall balanced spectrum from not using an incandescent and its Smooth output would be a loss of quality.

Cars function if built better can provide same distant with same watts and no impediments.

If we could build a light source with the same amount of lumens and the whole visual spectrum we can do a better like for like scenario.

Eating rice is definitely more efficient if we only consider macro nutrients against eating steak milk and fruit... but we are dismissing any vitamins and minerals that would much be better to have in our diet.

Sorry for the dumb examples
Great discussions here on nostr and props to the thread originator for getting us thinking.
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tonycarrera | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I believe the higher quality LED lights with high CRI and R values solves a lot of this with quality of light.

This full spectrum lighting would only really be useful for grow lights and current LED grow lights are designed to have those wavelengths for photosynthesis.
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wombat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah I mentioned plants further down.
We could also carry cri torches around also to further efficiency...

Listening to 32/96 kbit/s music would be more efficient as opposed 256/320 kbit/s

I would prefer and enjoy the higher rate though.

Likewise I would prefer an environment with less of a synthetic like spectrum as I could do without the irritation and headaches but sadly energy consumption is expensive and obtaining incandescents are getting harder.