Why not LED lamps?.......
Fluorescent bulbs are OK in my book on a regular lamp, but what does Harman propose I use on the dimmer?
Just looked at that bulb and it has a big warning about containg MERCURY and about how to dispose of the bulb!! Geesh.
One question about those new-style bulbs. I notice that the 100-watt version of these state that it is equal to the old-style 26-watt bulb. Does this mean that you can put these bulbs in sockets that are rated for 60 watts (the old style)?
LED is the way to go
I clicked the link and read until I got bored with it and also every name I saw had a “D” behind it which automaticly makes me against it.
I’m well stocked with the old bulbs. It’s just more nanny statism from the rats, it might or might not have merit but heaven forbid that a free market decide these matters when we have the rat party to do it for us.
Brilliant. Impose a gov’t solution, don’t let the market take care of the problem. Much of what is wrong with Washington today, in microcosm.
I prefer incandescent lights and they’re easier on the eyes for reading at nights.
If the government makes me switch to Gorebulbs, my room will either be colder, or my regular heating system will need to cycle more often to keep my room the same temperature.
I like Gorebulbs for some applications, but if you multiply lumens by life and divide by cost, incandecents are cheaper, simpler (no ballast to chuck into a landfill), don’t use mercury, and warm the room they are in by convection, and warm me by direct radiation in the IR, something a Gorebulb cannot do.
For outdoor use where the heat is dumped into the air without people to appreciate the warmth, some other tech may be appropriate, but for most indoor uses the old nitrogen-filled glass filament lamp has its advantages.
instead of letting a capitalist market decide
what next, a biodegradable toilet paper law ?
It’s not a waste.
Get rid of my incandescents, and I’ll have to install another 500-750 watt heater.
And, no; they aren’t taxing the air conditioner, because when it’s running, I generally don’t need to have lights on: it is summer day light.
I got me one of them new neodymium incandescents at a trade show - check it out, brighter and better!
Don’t weep for the buggy whip maker.
We will have to import them from Mexico.
Hey, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. This is none of your freaking business. I will gladly send you a copy of the Constitution (the one for the United States). You need to read that thing and find out what the *(*** your job is. Get out of my business.
They can have my incandescent light bulbs when they screw it from my cold dead socket.
Lloyd Levine (assembly person from of course California) is probably getting paid by the company or (ies) who make these bulbs. they can’t give those bulbs away.
Bill Handle was on the radio the day this bill passed explaining that the use of light bulbs only constitutes 2% of the entire electricity use in the state. Incandescent bulbs are not the problem.
Lloyd Levine is the problem.
and the companies that produce these bulbs, don’t mention that they contain mercury, a very toxic substance and will be costly to dispose of.... MORE TAXES.
Our condo association chose to switch to CFL’s for outdoor lighting (protected - sorta)....there’s 2 on every unit that the HOA has to pay the bill for..... we’ll be saving hundreds of dollars each year, because the dern lights are on automatic sensors that come on even on a rainy or cloudy day.....and THIS is near Seattle after all. In other words, the lights are on for 8-12 hours a day.
Friends should not let friends vote Dem.
And for the record CFs are great and provide great energy savings. But there are circumstances where you would want an old fashioned incandescent bulb.