I’m surprised that congressmen in the northern states aren’t up in arms about this. Their constituents may actually need the heat!
CFL’s make sense in some applications. I had already converted to CFL’s in my exterior fixtures which were not designed for good air flow. The incandescent bulbs would overheat and burn out. Also, external lighting is left on all night for security reasons and the bulbs are cycled once a day. However, anywhere you actually want heat, then an incandescent should be fine.
In our house in Payson we use electric zone heating in order to reduce the use of propane required to heat the entire house. It turns out that an incandescent bulb or two can take the chill off a room just like a few human bodies.
Environmentalists have a habit of ignoring the benefits of the things they want to ban or control. Ignoring beneficial heat from incandescents is similar to choosing to ignore the benefits from the rise of global temperatures.
[ CFL’s make sense in some applications. I had already converted to CFL’s in my exterior fixtures which were not designed for good air flow. The incandescent bulbs would overheat and burn out. Also, external lighting is left on all night for security reasons and the bulbs are cycled once a day. However, anywhere you actually want heat, then an incandescent should be fine. ]
I use LED light bulbs outside because it gets really really cold in winter where I live and they are not temprature dependant.
I also use LED accent light bulbs in my refidgerator and freezer as they don’t generate excess heat that my freezers and refidgeration doesn’t have to work against. Lowering the energy my freezer needs.
http://www.feit.com/feit_led_accent.html
The BPA15/LED ‘s fit exactly where a Appliance bulb would fit and work very well in that role.
I also use the BPG161/2/CL/LED bulbs in my ceiling fans in two of my rooms, I use the staggered with the CFL bulbs as they provide a decent amount of light and in summer put off WAY less heat than the CFL bulbs that my AC would have to work against.
Never had a LED bulb go out on me, yet....
Like you said it matters WHERE you use them and it is a customer’s choice NOT a govt’ mandate.
That's no joke! In the dead of Winter, it's nice to be able to site at my desk with a flexible task lamp for both illumination and heat. It really takes the chill off.
Yes and the incandescent heat benefit is research proven,
Canada, UK, Finland etc research
http://ceolas.net/#li6x
besides, any use with air conditioning cooling is optional, and might be preferred anyway, for light quality or other reasons