Oh, no - I’m with you. I don’t want them banned at all. I was so surprised at this particular CFL that I posted my experience. :) 99% of any CFLs I have tried are total crap.
The technology that I’m somewhat excited by, is the emerging LED lighting solutions. By using various carbon nano-tubes, they can create light refraction such that the LED can go from a blinding white, to almost any color, or combination of colors desired.
What florescent coloring, or a Sun-light, or tungston - you name it - it can be mimicked.
LED’s give off practically zero heat, last a long, long time, are extremely efficient (much more so than LCD), are resistant to vibration and can be made very inexpensively.
Another poster asked a very good question “What are we going to do about oven lights?”. No technology that I am aware of will work in an oven - as both LED and LCD have a limited temperature range that they can operate in.