So ... don't look at it? Nobody is surprised that these are fictional, or confusing fiction for reality, but sometimes fiction makes people curious about the underlying reality. It's not, "OMG you guys, it's not real!" but, "Huh, I wonder where that came from." Curiosity is a Good Thing.

I see a lot of talk about policy and efficiency, but none of those address why I don't replace incandescent bulbs. I want to switch, and have tried several times, but the LED and CFL bulbs give me a headache. I hear "light quality" given as a reason for not switching more often than cost or other technical issues. Some may say it's good enough, and that may be for them. Maybe it shouldn't be an issue, but I hear enough people talk about it to think it is. That's actually my beef with the legislation banning incandescent bulbs. It's not technical, environmental, economic or political, but competitive: if incandescents are banned, then the LED and CFL manufacturers have no incentive to improve.