Would Edison have loved the light-bulb law?

Thomas Edison’s great-grandson is using the new year to praise the light-bulb law that makes it illegal to import or manufacture for sale light bulbs that don’t meet federal efficiency standards. This effectively bans the traditional incandescent invented by Edison.

David Edward Edison Sloane writes that his ancestor would have welcomed the law because “he was green” and because “Thomas Edison would have been the first to support technological advances.” These are both red herrings.