[Secret Agent Man]

since regular bulbs’convert 95% of energy to heat, and only 5% to light, could one not reclassify them as heaters that also incidentally give off light?

[flaglady47]

You can continue to buy incandescent light bulbs at “newcandescent.com” which is now a new advertiser on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show. Check them out, and they are legal incandescent bulbs, originally considered a more industrialized version modified and meet the new standards for bulbs.

[HangnJudge]

since regular bulbs’convert 95% of energy to heat, and only 5% to light

Eventually all the energy is converted to heat, one way or another

[EinNYC]

Yes. Which is exactly why I buy 25W tubular incandescent bulbs to both light and heat my lizards’ terraria. What are the herpkeepers supposed to do after this ban? Be forced to buy the very expensive “dedicated” heat bulbs offered by reptile supply companies? I will be buying up all the 25W tubular bulbs I can find now for the future.

[Rodamala]

This is exactly the “workaround” being used... sell them as “specialty heating elements”... and there you be.

[Paladin2]

"could one not reclassify them as heaters that also incidentally give off light?"

Already been done. ---> Heat Balls.

[Nuc 1.1]

That is a good idea.