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It is possible for the "heat of ten thousand suns" to be greater for one set of ten thousand "cooler" suns than another set of ten thousand hotter suns.

Heat and temperature are NOT the same thing. The plasma in a compact fluorescent bulb is WAY hotter than a bonfire, but you can hold the former when the latter would cook your hand before you could even touch it. The difference is mass - the amount of plasma in a bulb is probably measured in micrograms, and even if that bonfire is colder than a match there might be a hundred kilos of the wood burning.

(FYI - finding estimates of plasma temperature in a fluorescent bulb is challenging. I found an article "Electron Temperature and Lamp Voltage for Various Ar Concentration in Ne-Hg Discharge Plasma" which indicated that in at least one type of bulb the electron temperature was about 2eV, which corresponds to about 23,000K. I think that most would agree that the typical bonfire is a bit colder than that.)