Two things:
1. Don’t be surprised if long-term health risks start to get talked about, although I haven’t heard anything yet, but it’s typically what happens when Leftists for something on to society.
2. Keep a few of old bulbs around (or halogens), as, even if we do get the power grid back up after the Norks (or Iran) do a high altitude ‘nuke test’, LEDs will be worthless.
Interesting. I’m hoping being in Florida, we won’t get the effects. Ha!
I just put a bunch of LED’s in my low voltage outdoor lights and there were a lot.
If I start finding my neighbor’s bodies piled up in front of my house we’ll have an answer to that question.
I find I have issues with my eyes with the LED bulbs. Don’t have the level of annoyance with spiral or incandescent ones.
I believe the LED bulbs technically turn on and off 60 times a second where the persistence of the older ones maintained a constant level of brightness for the eye to experience.
I also see much more disturbing flicker from LED bulbs on a generator than the old bulbs did.
Monochromatic blue emissions have been implicated in retinal damage. Not enough studies to consider proof positive. That is commonly enitted by LCD/LED computer displays and cool white or daylight LED lamps.
I have Advanced Macular Degeneration occurring, the dry version. Basically, it’s retinal cell death, inexorable and incurable. Yes, I can hope for a stem-cell cure but I’m not holding my breath. I’m old and my warranty has long expired.
You can self-test for the start of AMD. Just print an Amsler grid. If you have the wet version, there are shots to help you.
FWIW, I was an early adopter of LED screens. I have 3 large monitors 24” away, and now I minimize my former hours-per-day exposure. House lighting has been warm white LED (~2300K) for dimmable circuits. I avoid my tablet and kindle for reading, though I will need them for reading at some point.
YMMV. Keep in mind the ‘inverse square’ rule. Radiation amplitude declines by the inverse square of the distance. So that 24” exposure can be reduced significantly by moving the monitors 30” away, for example. And I’ve changed desktops backgrounds from light blue to faggy pink. Too bad there’s nothing to do about web pages other than invert the screen colors.