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It would also reduce the light output of
the bulb.
Better to buy Compact Flourescents that
are efficient, cheap, long lived and even
available in daylight colour temperature. |
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Micro-cells of convection...you do realize there's no convection in a vacuum? |
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Read the last praragraph,
ldischler, it is filled with Krypton. |
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And BrauBeaton, raising the temperature is exactly what this idea is on about. |
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Perhaps you should call it Kryptogel? |
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I appreciate what you're trying to do, but the primary source of heat transfer is not conduction or convection but through radiation. Perhaps instead of insulation (which will do nothing except provide more chances of converting light into heat, which is not what we want), we can just coat the inside of a light bulb with a material that is reflective in the infra-red spectrum but clear in the visible spectrum. |
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//Read the last praragraph//
My point was, there's no convection in an ordinary light bulb. |
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1. You don't want to run the filament at a higher temperature, because this physical limit has already been fully exploited. In short, it would melt. |
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2. It doesn't matter how good an insulator you use, the light bulb would still get hot. Adding an insulator does not change the heat output of the light bulb. It would take longer to reach equilibrium, but the end temperature would be the same. |
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