incandescent light bulb ban all about profit.

[Valiant Champion]

I guess this year I like many other people will be slammed hard when the stocks of incandescent light bulbs dry up. Personally I think it is a travesty to have something banned that aside from burning a few more watts was less hazardous for the enviroment than CFL or LED light bulbs.

This source pretty much states it like it is.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA628.html

I love it when the government can make us take care of ourselves, while causing us UV skin and eye damage and heavy metal contamination.... just love it.

I go through twice as many CFL bulbs in a year than I do incandescents. What am I supposed to do just leave my CFLs on 24 hours a day just so they last longer?

[Love Mountain]

I suppose it's a travesty of sorts. I simply can't bring myself to carr to be honest. Just how much money will I be losing?

[Condottiere 40K]

My primary complaint is that whatever light frequencies are being used, doesn't seem as warm. Though I hear research is being conducted on that.

[torongill]

I go through twice as many CFL bulbs in a year than I do incandescents.

What do you do, eat them?

My whole flat is with CFL bulbs and I don't really miss the old ones. They used to break quite often, and due to faulty production I've had the bulb separate entirely from the metal part, had the metal part weld to the connector, you name it. For the past four years or so I've had to change one single CFL - the oldest and weakest one, and I changed it because I bought a better one. True, I have no idea how to dispose of one at the end of its life cycle, but I'll worry about that when the time comes - I'll probably just hand it over at the store.

And it's not really that you can't buy incandescents, is it? You'll just have to buy non-'Mericun ones.

[AqD]

I go through twice as many CFL bulbs in a year than I do incandescents. What am I supposed to do just leave my CFLs on 24 hours a day just so they last longer?

Yes? Since they already save your money on electric, why not keep it on all day? There should be light wherever there is human!


I replaced all with LED in the beginning of this year and they seem good so far, much brighter and reliable with no additional cost, although the color sucks compared to sun.

[Col. Tartleton]

LED. CFL. Incandescent.

[Sphere]

“Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me, and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-labourers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally, as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill humour or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

[Condottiere 40K]

And here I thought it was a Japanese cinematic invention.

[YukonTrooper]

CCFL lightbulbs have their place but certainly not in the home environment.

[General Retreat]

You must be looking very hard for something to be angry about when you settle on lightbulbs.

That said, the EU regulated low efficiency lightbulbs a long time ago. I seem to recall some bright spark got around the restriction by selling the exact same lightbulbs as 'heat generating devices', bypassing the restriction.

So, for all you downtrodden and tyrannized lightbulb-martyrs, fear not! There's a niche in the market to be exploited!

[Condottiere 40K]

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