Required parity features: bulb form factor, warm white light, dimmable, runs off 115V AC source, screws in to existing sockets. Feature enhancement: long life.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.... I'm pretty sure incandescent bulbs, being a pioneering technology, got to dictate four of those requirements (bulb form factor, triac-based dimmer circuits, 115 V AC, socket form). The final one, "warm white light", is not a feature incandescent bulbs had 150 years ago.
I wonder why people want 'warm white light' so much. It's not natural. Sunlight is in fact much whiter and not so yellowish as what incandescent bulb emits.
I agree with you. Moreover, the eye has a fantastic ability to filter out differences in illumination. If you could design an experiment where someone who had been illuminated by different color temperature lights could be asked what color temperature the light was without remembering what it was from when they were first exposed to it, I bet that people would have difficulty doing so.
It seems pretty natural to me; lower-color-temp lighting has been the standard for nighttime use for a least tens of thousands of years, possibly hundreds of thousands, depending on when exactly fire came into widespread use.
Maybe true, but most of the things you'd look at outdoors are greenish or brownish. Maybe the colors of the things people look at indoors are whiter or bluer?
