Sure you can. Use halogen blubs. I started replacing all my incandescent blubs with halogen a long timne ago because they give off a cleaner/whiter light with less wattage than incandescent blubs.
“cleaner/whiter light with less wattage than incandescent blubs.”
Yep, I have slowley changed to halogen and florescent, and have reduced my electric bill by 25%. I am now looking at LED’s to get an additional 25%.
Nothing to do with global warming, I’m just a cheapskate.
....Bob
The difference is that they have an "ozone-depleting" gas (can you see where that's gonna be headed?), which, when the bulb is turned off, replates the tungsten ions back onto the filament. The result is that the filament lasts longer, since it's not constantly ablating metal (at least, not at the same rate), and, it doesn't darken with use, since the metal doesn't plate itself onto the envelope.
Apparently, though, these things need to run HOT in order to get that tungsten-halogen cycle going -- which means they have to use quartz envelopes, they have to have UV protection over them (unless you don't value your eyes), and, they present a very real fire hazard.
I'd start thinking about stocking up on the kind of thing that will NEVER have a nonconventional replacement, i.e., the utility bulbs in your refrigerator and oven.
Remember what happened to Freon after, when the patent expired and it was no longer profitable to manufacture it, they held the (spit) "Rio" Accord, and outlawed it -- quietly?
The can of freon that you could buy to recharge your car's AC -- for maybe 75 CENTS -- quickly flew up to maybe twenty DOLLARS -- when you could find it.
And, remember the halogen fire extinguisher? (AKA "Halon")
Remember how it was heralded as the first truly revolutionary means for fire-fighting? It killed the combustion process at a molecular level. Truly remarkable stuff.
Truly EEEEVUL stuff, though -- for the greenies. So, abracadabra, no more halogen fire extinguishers -- except for use in (the irony, the irony), jet engines.
Each jet engine has a halogen bottle. If the engine catches fire, the pilot dumps the bottle, because that's the ONLY way to put OUT the fire.
The irony is, the location that this is apt to happen, i.e., the stratosphere! Oh, the ozone, the ozone! LOL!
Anyway, a Halon bottle that sold for two or three bucks (a little one-shot dealie) was suddenly worth an arm and a leg. Bigger extinguishers got more and more expensive as the supply dried up.
Freon and Halogen became gaseous gold.
Expect the same thing to happen with the common 100W lightbulb (the first one targetted for destruction).
I sure am glad we didn't get Al Gore running the country. Otherwise, stuff like THIS would be happening!
Oh, wait...
PS: As to halogen lights? Call me cynical, but I expect they'll be "tolerated" for a while -- to make the bitter pill easier to swallow -- and then, once the deal is done, they'll be outlawed (after all, they DO have that Devil Halogen in them).
And then there's the poor woman who had to pay several thousand bucks "toxic cleanup" because she dropped a CF bulb onto her carpeted floor...
Land of the free. Keep repeating it. Who knows? Maybe you'll end up believing it!
PPS: Do you own a projector? (slide/movie/LCD) Might want to stock up on bulbs for that too, while you still can.