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.

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.