It’s been my experience that halogen bulbs get dangerously hot. I’ve replaced all of my halogens with toxic twisties, but still use real light bulbs when appropriate.
I can see a market for light bulb stores on the California/Nevada border, and on Indian reservations.
I will have a light bulb stand at Whiskey Pete’s
Halogens are crap. I once had an idiot boozer who worked for a tenant. He almost burned down the office building leaving a halogen torch on next to a drywall wall.
Thank goodness I checked it that night. I found it on and the wall was warm. If I had left it overnight it would have burned the building down.
We've had two of those CFLs catch on fire in our house. They filled the house with a lung-searing vapor that forced us to evacuate the house coughing our lungs out and barely able to see through the tears. They didn't catch anything else on fire, but I wouldn't be surprised if they would in a different fixture.
After the second fire, I threw the rest in the garbage. We have a small inventory of incandescents. Guess I need to stock up enough for a few years. I suppose there's room in the barn for a few cases of the things.
They have some pretty neat LED bulbs now that you can use in a regular light socket. They cost more but last over 20,000 hours.
They do get very hot.
We recently put in under-cabinet lighting in our kitchen, and I did tons of research trying to find the best lighting, and I found many people talking about how scary-hot their halogens were, and one person who had them inside her cabinets had them start actually on fire. We have some halogen recessed lighting over our breakfast bar, and they do get quite warm.
We got the fluorescents for under the cabs, but I am not impressed with the sickly glow of them. I cannot have a lot of fluorescent lighting, as it gives me horrendous headaches after a while. And my contact lenses absolutely HATE fluorescent lighting. My eyes look like their bleeding.
I am waiting for the LEDs to be perfected. They give off such a pure, bright light—when they work properly.
Until then, I am hoarding the incandescents. Up yours, Green Police.