Biden Puts Final Nail In the Coffin For Incandescent Light Bulbs (cnbc.com) 267
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from CNBC: On Tuesday, the Biden administration put the final nail in the coffin for incandescent light bulbs, the result of a decade-plus-long legislative path. The journey began in 2007 when the Energy Independence and Security Act passed. That law required the Department of Energy to evaluate whether efficiency standards for light bulbs needed to be set or amended and required a minimum standard of energy efficiency for light bulbs of 45 lumens per watt to be considered. The 2007 law required that if the DOE determined a new energy efficiency standard was necessary, it should go into effect by January 1, 2017. But politics intervened as the Trump administration appealed those rules.
The Biden administration picked the issue back up. And in April 2022, the Biden administration issued a rule requiring the minimum standard efficiency of 45 lumens per watt, which became effective in July. At that time, the Department of Energy said it would have a gradual transition to the new rule so that stores with inventory would not be stuck with light bulbs they could no longer sell. In Department of Energy lingo, this is called "progressive enforcement." Full enforcement of the ban for retailers took effect on Tuesday. The DOE does not disclose its techniques for enforcing these step-wise implementation of the rule. However, the agency's new regulations will be enforced in "a fair and equitable manner," and smaller retailers are advised to reach out to the DOE to speak about existing inventory they may still have on hand, a spokesperson told CNBC.
Enforcing the sale of the more energy-efficient light bulbs will save consumers nearly $3 billion per year on their utility bills, according to DOE estimates, and cut carbon emissions by 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years. That's about the quantity of emissions that 28 million homes generate in a year, the Department of Energy said. [...] Not all light bulbs are included in the ban. Exceptions include a whole slew of specific light bulb implications, including appliance lamps, black light lamps, bug lamps, colored lamps, general service fluorescent lamps, marine lamps, marine signal service lamps, mine service lamps, sliver bowl lamps, showcase lamps, and traffic signal lamp, to name a few.
The Biden administration picked the issue back up. And in April 2022, the Biden administration issued a rule requiring the minimum standard efficiency of 45 lumens per watt, which became effective in July. At that time, the Department of Energy said it would have a gradual transition to the new rule so that stores with inventory would not be stuck with light bulbs they could no longer sell. In Department of Energy lingo, this is called "progressive enforcement." Full enforcement of the ban for retailers took effect on Tuesday. The DOE does not disclose its techniques for enforcing these step-wise implementation of the rule. However, the agency's new regulations will be enforced in "a fair and equitable manner," and smaller retailers are advised to reach out to the DOE to speak about existing inventory they may still have on hand, a spokesperson told CNBC.
Enforcing the sale of the more energy-efficient light bulbs will save consumers nearly $3 billion per year on their utility bills, according to DOE estimates, and cut carbon emissions by 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years. That's about the quantity of emissions that 28 million homes generate in a year, the Department of Energy said. [...] Not all light bulbs are included in the ban. Exceptions include a whole slew of specific light bulb implications, including appliance lamps, black light lamps, bug lamps, colored lamps, general service fluorescent lamps, marine lamps, marine signal service lamps, mine service lamps, sliver bowl lamps, showcase lamps, and traffic signal lamp, to name a few.
Yeah right... (Score:3, Insightful)
"Enforcing the sale of the more energy-efficient light bulbs will save consumers nearly $3 billion per year on their utility bills, according to DOE estimates, and cut carbon emissions by 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years."
Maybe 30 years ago but I'm highly skeptical of these claims. If it is true they are missing needed exceptions because nobody is using incandescents where they don't actually need them anymore. The free market already handled this issue, as soon as they were cheap and drop in replacements everybody choose NOT to waste their money. Magic.
Re:Yeah right... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yeah right... (Score:5, Insightful)
An LED bulb has a lifetime between 50,000 and 100,000 hours.
I installed Hue bulbs everywhere in my house in 2016. Not one single failure.
LEDs dim just fine, as long as you're using one with a ballast that will behave favorably to the dimmer.
You're full of shit.
I get that you don't like LED bulbs, but flat out fucking lying to make your particular opinion on the matter appear as a fact? That's just fucking sad.
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I have some lamps in ceiling with E14 sockets that are a popular standard here, they are all with a glass shade below and many inches of open air to vent the heat. So all of my LED bulbs fails so quickly within 2 years and they dont even run every day.I have this year saved the receipt so I can get a refund. Perhaps they will last longer now I went from 4.4w to 2.4w
Today they hide the electronics in the socket and the rest is made of glass like an old school bulb. I think the electronics burns itself out. t
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Consumer bulbs are warrantied. If you have one that burns out in a few years- get a brand new one for free. You won't though, because it doesn't fucking happen.
Apparently it's happening enough for there to be multiple class action lawsuits and lifetime claims to have been massively reduced over the years. Manufacturer bulb warranties are pointless. Nobody is going to have original receipts and spend the time and money to ship blown bulbs.
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Look at the claim on its face-
That's stupid. Warranties don't say you get a brand new one for free
Yes, warranties do say that. And that's protected by law.
I have three boxes full of failed LED bulbs in my hands that shows it certainly does happen.
3 full boxes of failed LED bulbs? of what quantity? 4? So 12 dead bulbs? Over what time period? Why, pray tell, do you have 3 boxes of dead bulbs?
No, you're a fucking dumbshit.
You'd believe any stupid fucking thing you read as long as it aligned with your politics.
Re: Yeah right... (Score:2)
A *LED* might have a theoretical half life of thousands of hours before it loses half of it's rated brightness if you feed it nice, clean DC at the proper stable voltage... but the driver circuit is basically *never* that well designed. NEVER.
Ever wonder why LED Christmas lights burn out and fail at almost exactly the same rate as incandescent lights? It's because 99.8% of the time, they literally just wire up enough in series for the forward voltage drop to equal 125 or 240v and call it a day. It doesn't t
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A *LED* might have a theoretical half life of thousands of hours before it loses half of it's rated brightness if you feed it nice, clean DC at the proper stable voltage... but the driver circuit is basically *never* that well designed. NEVER.
Wrong.
Ever wonder why LED Christmas lights burn out and fail at almost exactly the same rate as incandescent lights?
They don't.
I've had the same set of LED christmas lights for almost 16 years, now.
Ever wonder what kind of arguments are possible when you just make shit up?
All the people buying 3+ matched LED light fixtures for a bathroom are going to be pissed as hell 3-6 years from now when one of them fails, can't be repaired, can't be replaced with an identical one because it was EOL'ed after a year or two, and they're going to have to either live with a visibly-broken light, mismatch them, or replace them ALL with new ones.
No, they're not, because you're full of shit.
Re: Yeah right... (Score:3)
I don't know what kind of light fixtures you've been looking at, but if you go to Home Depot, buy a bathroom LED fixture that costs $100 to $250, tear it apart, and look at the driver circuit... It's pure, total SHIT. They don't just cut corners, they turn it into a metaphorical octagonal donut.
You must have fantastic voltage regulation from your power company. In South Florida, we get transient voltage spikes ALL THE TIME. A few years ago, Linksys sold home routers with poor voltage regulation. They lasted
Tech Improvements (Score:2)
When incandescent bulbs were first on the way out back around 2010, I stuck with CFLs because they had whiter light and were cheaper. LEDs tended to have an ugly blue hue.
These days LEDs are much cheaper (about $1 per bulb) and you can have blue, yellow/orange, or white light, or whatever color you want.
So many people try things long ago and never bother to try again.
It's the same issue with electric stoves. People have coil electric and don't even know other types exist and cost about just as much.
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My current bulbs were installed in 2016, and they're whatever color temp I want them to be (Phillips Hue)
I'd never go back, and at no failures in almost 8 years, I'm not worried about the longevity.
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A halogen bulb has an average lifetime of 2,000 hours.
An LED bulb has a lifetime between 50,000 and 100,000 hours.
Life of the drivers are what matters not the bulbs.
I installed Hue bulbs everywhere in my house in 2016. Not one single failure.
I should hope not given the cost of this shit. Most people are not going to spend that kind of money on fricking light bulbs.
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Life of the drivers are what matters not the bulbs.
For product lifetime, it includes the ballast and the bulb.
I should hope not given the cost of this shit. Most people are not going to spend that kind of money on fricking light bulbs.
Sure did. I don't care what most people are going to do. I did what I did, because I can afford it.
As a bonus, they're whatever color temperature I want, whenever I want it. These days, I've got them so that they adjust their color temp during the course of the day based on the day-night cycle. Well worth the investment, especially if you look at it as over 8 years.
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Yep, Hue lights are ridiculously expensive, but really good. Osram and Ikea zigbee lights are crap in comparison.
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For product lifetime, it includes the ballast and the bulb.
I doubt this is actually the case given widespread reliability problems and associated lawsuits over vendors misrepresenting service life of their products.
Sure did. I don't care what most people are going to do. I did what I did, because I can afford it.
This isn't about passing judgement it's about expecting your (anecdotal) experience to be representative of what others are experiencing when the shit you are buying costs an order of magnitude more than what normal people are spending.
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I have A19 LEDs bulbs in lamps which have never died.
What is not working is MR16 12V GU5.3 LEDs in ceiling fixtures with TRIAC dimmers. I have tried dozens of brands of MR16 LEDs. All of them have failed miserably. And yes I always buy dimmable ones. The likely problem here -- CEILING FIXTURES -- they trap the heat.
Landscape lighting is very similar to MR16 -- it is MR11. But in those cases I don't think the LEDs can take the sub-zero freezes. When I swap them out some of them are visibly broken, likely fr
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I've got bulbs in ceiling fixtures, for going on 8 years now. These are 5-15W devices. They're not fucking furnaces.
People use MR16s for landscaping too. And you can get 12VAC MR16 LEDs with lifetime warranties.
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Who sells 12VAC MR16 LEDs with lifetime warranties? I will buy some.
I need 12VAC MR16 bi-pin. I have TRIAC dimmers with transformers (non-electronic) and 4in cans. Halo H1499IC
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I need warm white, the wife won't allow daylight.
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Emery Allen [emeryallen.com]
I'm sure there are more.
Also, if you're being straight about the 100 dead bulbs, consider monitoring your transformer output. That's very suspicious.
Re: Yeah right... (Score:2, Troll)
I have a box of dead horses here, beat that!
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In their case, they're 12VAC though, so it sounds like they need to put that transformer behind some power conditioning. If they can afford all that, they can afford a cheap UPS.
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Most of the time the failure isn't the LED elements, it is the cheap ass low voltage power supply the company squeezes into the bulb's base.
Sure is. And those are the components that give them the average lifetime of 50k-100k hours.
25k hours for higher wattage or smaller enclosures that get hotter.
The LED will last practically indefinitely, on average.
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I bought a bunch of Phillips LEDs in various shapes and sizes expecting quality. They've all died within 2-3 years. Rando store brand ones however seem to last and last...
One of those things that I barely understand that I have to wonder about though is power factor. The PF measured by a handy watt meter can be 0.6 or so. Since we all have been forced onto smart meters, or will soon, which specifically measure power factor, does this mean the cost savings on electricity are only temporary and the power com
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1) The long lifetime of LEDs is a lie, all of mine die in under five years. I have some halogens which are twenty years old. I even bought some top of the line $30 LEDs -- still died in under five years.
That's curious, I've never had one fail yet and I was all in on LEDs from the start. I did swap a lot of them out when better models became available though, even just a couple of years ago nasty PWM bulbs were still available, so they didn't last anywhere near 20 years. Do you use lamp shades that aren't well ventilated perhaps? I can't think of another reason why they might die so early.
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TRIAC dimming is an awful way to dim LEDs. I agree that a DC solution would be optimal. Of course that requires different wiring which isn't going to happen for a long time.
Another option is using smart bulbs and then converting the wall switch to control them via radio instead of phase chopping. That solves the dimming problem but installation is complex because of the need to bind the smartbulb to the switch. At least this can be done with existing wiring.
It might even be possible to use GAN IGBTs to put
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I use z-wave switches / dimmers in the wall, tied to a Home Assistant instance. Most of the bulbs are just regular "AC" LED bulbs (obviously they're not direct AC) that support dimming-- the theory being that a dimmable bulb might be a bit better built.
Gotta say it's nice that I now have variable brightness light bulbs depending on the time of day. No more walking into the bathroom late at night and getting blinded by 1000 lumens.
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When I bought my current house, it was about 30 years old. The electrical supply was awful-- I'd have intermittent power failures, my UPS's (which I had several of, just to deal with the unreliable power supply) hated the power in the house because it was so "dirty"-- This went on for a year or so before I got fed up enough to call the utility company.
They determined that the neutral lug on my service was loose. Five minutes of cleaning/tightening later, my power was suddenly clean and reliable. I can't
good riddance (Score:2)
And nothing of value was lost.
Diurnal sleep signal (Score:5, Interesting)
And nothing of value was lost.
Your eyes have a special sensor for blue light that sets your circadian clock. It's not a rod or cone, but a special cell in the retina that receives blue light. It doesn't participate in the visual process directly. A Huberman video mentions this and recommends going out in the dawn hours, mostly blue sunlight, to set your circadian rhythm if you're having trouble sleeping.
LED bulbs are blue/near-UV LEDs with a yellow phosphor that mimics the black-body spectrum of an incandescent bulb.
The spectral response of a UV bulb still has a spike in the blue/near UV end [remembereverything.org], and this will screw up the circadian rhythm signal - this is why looking at screens, either phone or computer, has a tendency to give you poor sleep. Sunset and firelight are reddish/IR, and we're evolved to view this as a calming signal before sleep, which is why it's recommended to use an incandescent lamp if you want to read before going to bed.
Has this been addressed in LED bulbs yet? I have no problem transitioning to LED, but older people (such as myself) sometimes have trouble sleeping and need a bit of extra help.
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Most of my LED's have a small bump in the UV range, and then a DIP in the blue/green range. The majority of their output is in the yellow/red range. Warm white LED's are getting very close to Halogen curves, although Halogen has far more red, and extends into the infrared. I actually bought an el-cheapo spectroscope, because I was curious.
You're right that it's a valid concern, but they've gotten much, MUCH better at tuning LED's these days.
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Has this been addressed in LED bulbs yet? I have no problem transitioning to LED, but older people (such as myself) sometimes have trouble sleeping and need a bit of extra help.
As far as I've been able to piece together looking into this previously if you get soft white (<=2700k) LEDs generally the blue spike will be (mostly)gone. Especially any fancy looking continuous COB elements found in modern strip lighting or those old fashioned looking edison bulbs with the fake filaments the spectrum charts I've seen even in the ultra cheap models was clean.
COVID (Score:2, Funny)
LED bulbs caused covid. Incandescent light bulbs are natural. LEDs were not invented or made by anything of nature. A natural process did not enable LEDs to come about. If the universe wanted to manifest an LED, it would have made a process to birth LEDs. Only things nature made happen should be allowed. As a matter of principle we should not use anything synthetic, no matter the inconvenience. it's never worth selling out to synthetic.
Re: COVID (Score:2)
I'm confused. Which natural process did you find that puts a carefully formed tungsten filament inside an bubble of glass filled with a Nobel gas?
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I'm thinking a Nobel gas would be a bit... explosive.
Most incandescents work in a vacuum. Kinda like the brains of some of the posters on this site. :)
Not sure I see the need (Score:2)
I'm in Canada, but I can't recall the last time I saw an incandescent bulb in a store. And I can't imagine why someone would buy one if it was in a store, it's just going to waste money and heat up the room.
The downside is I suspect there are some applications for which incandescents are still better, and I'm not sure their exemptions would have gotten all of them.
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i am in Canada and have zero LED bulbs in my house
i prefer the warm light of incandescent bulbs, and i get a massive headache from being surrounded from the narrow light spectrum of LEDs for long periods of time.
you can buy candelabra shaped bulbs as they are exempt in any wattage as a 'utility bulb' or whatever which works for me because most of my fixtures are chandelier.
you can also buy =40w utility bulbs, which, if you have multi bulb fixtures, are plenty.
my house is way more energy efficient than yours
Re:Not sure I see the need (Score:5, Insightful)
i am in Canada and have zero LED bulbs in my house
i prefer the warm light of incandescent bulbs, and i get a massive headache from being surrounded from the narrow light spectrum of LEDs for long periods of time.
I'm admittedly not well versed but I've seen a lot of different spectrums for LEDs (warm, cool, daylight, etc). I've also seen stuff advertised as full spectrum, but that may be more for grow lights.
my house is way more energy efficient than yours.
Sorry, it's not.
why?
when it's night time, it's colder (as in outside temperature is below my target inside temperature), and that's when the lights are on, so the heat from my edison era environment killing toaster bulbs, which are only on in the room that i am currently in, isn't wasted, it's just helping my heat pump out.
Your heat pump is up to 300% efficient, unlike the light that is at best 100% efficient with waste heat.
And if you're like most people, your lights are on the ceiling, so a pretty good portion of that waste heat is staying up there and radiating up and away through your ceiling.
So your incandescent bulbs are probably operating at closer to 5% efficiency (the only useful energy you get out is the light) as opposed to 100%.
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i prefer the warm light of incandescent bulbs, and i get a massive headache from being surrounded from the narrow light spectrum of LEDs for long periods of time.
Say goodbye to 2002, and try some modern LED's. Most of the LED bulbs I've deployed lately are 2700K, 90+ CRI-- which means they're warm white, and hitting a 90% color rendering index. That also means that they're reasonably "full spectrum" (they drop out in the deep red/infrared regions).
As for the rest of your desperate rationale induced rant, the reality is that your incandescent bulbs, being as small as they are, are simply being inefficient at producing both heat and light. They're turning electrici
What's a good bulb for an attic (Score:2)
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Were people still buying incandescents? (Score:2)
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or where the heat output was useful (light bulbs can be low cost heating elements)
You'll still be able to buy infrared bulbs, as I mentioned in another comment [slashdot.org].
Re: Were people still buying incandescents? (Score:2)
Looks like the dupe detector is broken (Score:4, Informative)
or something
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When was it ever working?
Link to probable dupe. [slashdot.org]
Traffic signal lamps? (Score:2)
I can't believe any town is still using incandescent light bulbs for traffic lights. They either need to be replaced super often or are extremely inefficient. Either way, there's no way the town is saving money by having 'em.
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Still might need some form of heating to melt away ice in winter. Previously, the incandescent bulbs were the heating. But with light sources being more efficient, you don't get ice melting automatically anymore.
I'd better stock up ... (Score:2)
market did, government took the credit (Score:2)
Government didn't invent new types of light emitting sources, but they certainly will claim credit after most people would have bought more efficient light bulbs. As always there is no point to it, people decide based on their pocketbook, so eventually everyone switches to more efficient lightbulbs anyway.
What a pointless law. (Score:4, Insightful)
There are a few applications where the soft heat from an incandescent is what is needed more than the light, and now these are banned. Think about warming animal cages for chicks, small mammals, reptiles. Think about toys like Easy Bake oven. I had planned to use them in a home made wood worker drying kiln. Heat lamps in baths and showers.
How about the grain of rice sized bulbs used in model railroads or doll house miniatures. The list goes on. There are also high temp environments where LEDs are not likely to survive like ovens.
Be smarter about who you vote for - elections have consequences.
Franlab (Score:3)
Franlab did a good presentation on the ban and the main motivation: https://youtu.be/m6COwRlOUks [youtu.be]
trolls all (Score:4, Insightful)
It seems that anybody who is not willing to go along with the /. pc narrative now gets labelled a troll. If that continues, /. will die. None of these people are trolls; they just have a different opinion or experience than those who want to silence them.
Edison Screw (Score:3, Insightful)
Sounds reasonable, but probably pointless. There is very little economic incentive to continue manufacturing the bulbs they banned. Just stopping the manufacturing , the existing inventory problem would solve itself.
I am just glad they are not trying to ban the Edison screw like California did with the GU24 debacle. Who thought deprecating 100 years of light fixtures would result in less waste?
Re:So, long, E-Z Bake Oven! (Score:5, Informative)
From TFA, appliance lamps are not included in the ban.
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Lava Lamps?
Re:So, long, E-Z Bake Oven! (Score:4, Funny)
they are not coming for your Lava Lamps
Re:So, long, E-Z Bake Oven! (Score:5, Interesting)
Modern lava lamps already come with LED lighting and a couple of high wattage resistors as a heat source. they can even have RGB lighting.
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And? Collect and repair away. The constitution doesn't grant you a right to unwavering access to old parts. You want your old thing to keep going repair it and modify it with modern parts.
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Or be a real enthusiast instead of a filthy casual and learn glass blowing.
Try an infrared bulb in your Easy-Bake oven (Score:4, Interesting)
The featured article states that "appliance lamps" are exempt:
ABC News coverage of this ban [go.com] states that infrared lamps aren't banned either. How well does a 100 watt infrared bulb work in a pre-2011* Easy-Bake oven?
* Easy-Bake oven models beginning in 2011 use a more conventional heating element.
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Correction: I found the list of exclusions at 42 USC 6291 [cornell.edu]. An "appliance lamp" is limited to 40 watts, not powerful enough for an Easy-Bake oven. So for heating applications, I'd say experiment with whatever infrared bulbs you can find in 50 to 100 watt range.
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How is it not enough for an oven, but is enough for a phased plasma rifle?
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According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], they switched to actual heating elements in 2003. It's an anecdote without citation, but I do seem to recall there being some non-environmental safety risk related to using incandescent bulbs this way that triggered the change.
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Re: So... (Score:5, Informative)
Signed into law by republican George W. Bush. Take it up with him.
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Huh? How is switching the market to more energy efficient bulbs lowering my quality of life? Making them nigh universal is going to drive their prices down, and I get to pay less to light my home.
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How in the name of Ronald Reagan is this lowering your quality of life? LED's are more efficient, burn fewer dollars, last longer, and produce less heat than incandescent bulbs. And you can have whatever color temperature you desire. Hell, you can even have LED's that look like incandescent bulbs with the little glowing filaments!
My living room light comes on when the sun sets. My bathroom lights up when I walk in-- and if it's late at night, it's a dim "night light" setting, and during the day, it's fu
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No one is coming for your bulbs. You just can't keep buying crap bulbs. You can't buy lawn darts or Ford Pintos any more either, but that's not a conspiracy either.
Intelligent people aren't affected by this-- we stopped buying incandescent bulbs years ago except for specialty bulbs.
I guess you'll be complaining that you can't by halogen torchieres any more either-- Now, THAT was a fantastic, elegant way to burn your money *and* your house at the same time!
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It’s a ban on inefficient incandescent lights. You can still buy new halogens.
Re:Invest in power conditioners (Score:4, Funny)
Oh yeah this ban was started by a republican by the way.
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Re:Heat bulbs? (Score:5, Informative)
They don't, appliance bulbs are specifically exempted. As are heat lamps. Only spot you might have trouble is where you'd use a regular 100 watt bulb as a little boost in a henhouse or such.
But ceramic heaters are even more dependable and still cheap
Re:Heat bulbs? (Score:5, Informative)
You might find a flat panel a much better option than the 100W for warmth. It has zero clearance and pair it up with a thermocube outlet that is an outlet that switches based on temperature in ten degree increments (on at 35 and off at 45). Puts out the heat without the light or need to wrap the light and possibly have a fire. The thermocube is perfect because for hens you want no more than a ten degree difference between outside and coop. Additionally, the flat panel slowly cools while the 100W just goes out. If you get a 100W that goes out, the sudden snap in temperature is enough to make the hens sick. But you should still have backup for any warming you do for a coop or you should skip the heating altogether.
I highly recommend, no one ever goes and gets the red 250W heat lamps for a coop. I have seen so many coop fires because of them. Just no, they're not safe in such a place.
Ceramic heaters are also an option but you really need the coop that can handle it and is less versatile than the light bulb or the flat panel heater. But they're way better at keeping a strong warmth coming out if the power goes.
Re:Heat bulbs? (Score:5, Informative)
Appliance bulbs in ovens. How long do they expect an LED bulb to last at 350 F?
Literally in the last sentence of TFS:
Exceptions include a whole slew of specific light bulb implications, including appliance lamps, ...
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Re:Heat bulbs? Ask that traitor Pedo Joe! (Score:5, Informative)
In your haste to be offensive, you demonstrated your rampant illiteracy, as the article specified a number of exemptions-- including heat lamps and appliance lamps.
Crawl back under your rock, the adults are trying to talk.
Re:Heat bulbs? Ask that traitor Pedo Joe! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Except it does, and it does, except to people who are too damned dense to understand how inefficient a 140+ year old design is. Biden only finished what George W. Bush started.
Go back to your typewriter and abacus, luddite.
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Because you can use an led in an oven.
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If you have a solution that gets 99% of the way there and is easy, it's better to go with that than push that extra 1% that's very difficult. Can focus the energy on other places with a greater rate of return on the effort
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I've used lots of LEDs inverted with zero problems. The problem there is more finding bulbs without bottom basement ac to dc converters that will burn out at the slightest excuse.
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The only photographers and videographers not using LEDs are the same hipsters still spinning vinyl through their tube amp. Flash bulbs are situational, not the norm, since continuous lighting is much easier to set up. We even replaced CRI with SSI while you were yelling at the kids on your lawn. 300-600 watt point source LEDs adjustable from tungsten to daylight are in every pro kit, with some over 2500 W for use in direct sunlight.
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Maybe you just bought shitty bulbs?
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You're trying to tell us that halogen bulbs run cooler than LED bulbs in your fixtures?!?
As far as photography goes, LED does fine for fill lighting. Big ass Spots still need some Big Ass Bulbs, and I don't think those are going anywhere any time soon.
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I had an inverted LED bill fail. The whole LED chip fell to the bottom of the bulb, it was maybe three years old and in a hallway, so on and off a lot.
The current LED is doing fine.
As to the Not Rated For Outdoor Service problem, I have five outdoor bulbs, and I have enough incandescents stockpiled to last for years.
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Yeah I love it how people state figures over a large time period to make them sound bigger.
Still a start, but much more needs to be done.
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Not even a start, it's rounding error of carbon emissions. LED are cheaper to run and have longer life, but to claim pollution avoidance is ridiculous.
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It's a subsidy for all of the Chinese LED bulb manufacturers.
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Really? My local Publix has 100w equivalent from Feit, Philips, and Publix. Would like that in warm white, soft white, or clear?
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There is no silver bullet solution and better efficiency for the stuff we use is worth it as its less stress on the grid or your home solar/battery
Re: 222 million metric tons of carbon over 30 year (Score:2)
how is 222 million metric tons per 30 years anything but a gnat's fart in a hurricane?
I thought the same thing. The world's biggest coal export terminal (in Australia) shifts over 300m tons per year, primarily to China. It's a sparrows piss stream on the breeze.
Re: (Score:2)
China has 1.4 billion people, compared to just 0.35 billion in the US. So China is doing way, way better than you guys.
China is set to peak around 2025-6, 5 years earlier than their agreed target date from Paris. They will then start falling back fast, having never come close to US levels of per capital emissions.
If you want to start placing sanctions on countries that emit a lot of CO2, expect to be at the top of everyone else's list.