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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
A longer lasting bulb draws more power and/or gives off less light.
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The particular type of long-lasting incandescent bulb that were sold may have been like that. That does not in itself contradict the claims of the article that the industry supressed the development of long lasting bulbs that may have been more efficient.
IOW your forum post is no more believable than Wikipedia.
By the way, the "long lasting" bulbs I remember were always just slightly lower wattage...like 55 instead of 60...so they ran longer simply by being slightly dimmer and cooler, so they didn't burn out as fast. But they did use less power.