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Reflection of broadcast power for improved efficiency The afforementioned microwave-oven utilizes broadcast power. Microwave ovens are notoriously efficient... home.howstuffworks.com/microwave.htm ...thanks to their wave-reflector systems...

So the color temperature is around 3000°K? google.com/search?q=T3+78mm+halogen+%22color+temperature%22

Fluorescent lamps and incandescent lamps are different things That is correct. Fluorescent lamps and incandescent lamps are different things. Typically, fluorescent lamps are more bluish than incandescent lamps, and ShawnD said bluish light is hard to see by. Fluorescent lamps look like this...

CRI vs color temperature There is no such one single thing as "fluorescent light". It does not say that. It says, "fluorescents [do] not resemble black body radiation." Yes. It has a table indicating that sunlights (contrary to ShawnD's claim, and except for low-azimuth instances) are bluish...

CRI is not a measure of color temperature.

Wavelength peakiness vs color temperature That is not true. sizes.com/units/color_temperature.htm While fluorescents across a broad spectrum of color temperatures can be selected from, those with low CRI ratings tend to be more peaky in their wavelength distributions. One solution to...

Improving fluorescent lights with electronic ballasts and rare-earth phosphors Because of the flicker or because of the color? The flicker has been addressed by way of high-frequency electronic ballasts. http://energyoutlet.com/res/lighting/t8.html Color has also been addressed in newer...

Linear fluorescent luminaires can be installed anywhere. T5 linear tubes come in lengths as short as 6 inches. bulbbarn.com/main.aspx?pagefrom=0&sgrp=3-27&bbaff=168999

Compact fluorescents vs efficient lights Compact fluorescent lights are not very efficient. Try T5 and Super T8. google.com/search?q=%22super+t8%22+efficient

You could simply turn the entire house into a walk-in microwave oven. That would work. Any person trying to watch TV in that house would cook and smolder, though.

SD16 IQ of 126. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ#See_also highiqsociety.org/noflash/nonmembers/membership.htm

Vitiligo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo

Then your poll question might better be phrased, "If you could make one human activity biologically unnecessary, would you rather it be sleeping or eating?"

Advice for maintaining rapid biological aging You would like to know how to biologically-age as rapidly as possible? High blood-sugar, and high postprandial blood-sugar rise, help.

Minimum population required for racial founding A biological race can indeed be founded by only one male and one female: groups.yahoo.com/group/e-l/messages/13925?threaded=1&viscount=7&m=e