The LED’s ain’t cheap on the front end but when we got in our (new to us) house I replaced all the can lights that had the cfl’s with LED’s. Much brighter and supposedly will last a long time making the ROI worth it. Plus, no Hg.
The LEDs suck. The same wattage on an incadescent bulb is much brighter than an LED bulb so it takes about 2 LED bulbs to equal a regular incadescent. So here we go again. Instead of ittaking one flush to clear the toilet bowl it takes 2 or 3. Expect them to try and regulate oxygen consumption Total Recall style next.
I love leds, I love low flow toilets, I love water heaters that won’t ignite fumes, and so on, the problem is that they are forced on us a decade or more before they are adequate to win over the market place.
Using law to force these beta products on the consumer 10, 15, even 20 years before they are ready, wastes billions of dollars, and immeasurable amounts of resources and energy and landfill space.
I’m paying $5.00 and $8.00 per bulb to buy led bulbs because I am a gadget guy, and I am willing to put out money when I have it, to manage long term costs for when I don’t have money, but neither of those applies to my upper middle class female friends, I still can’t recommend leds to them.
I detest this cycle of the left forcing good things on America before those good things are ready for prime time, so we then go through billions of dollars worth of junk and throwaways, and complaints, and a destroyed image for the whole idea or product.