Posted on 04/25/2016 6:58:38 AM PDT by The_Victor
Further proof that allowing the government to choose the winners and losers is a lose-lose proposition, every time. Free market, when allowed to work, will always operate more effectively and provide a net benefit.
Of course, it will cost $30 each.
Who ever would have believed that our government has been reduced to passing laws regulating flush toilets and light bulbs?
The science was settled that incandescent bulbs were not efficient, so that's the end of it.
I’m liking the new LED bulbs.
The CFL’s are dangerous garbage. I’ve had them blowup and shoot sparks out of the base.
Well, if it’s an efficiency-based standard, this new technology would not be against the law.
The key here is that it isn’t a straight black-body radiator—non-visible radiation from the filament is used to excite photons in the visible range from the surrounding crystal.
Very cool (or hot, if you like).
When the market is allowed to work, it works.
I still have some CFL bulbs but am replacing them bit by bit by LEDs. I have used the CFLs since they were pretty new and have had no problems at all with them. Disposal has been no problem because they don’t burn out. One has quit on me the in 15 years whereas I used to have to replace an incandescent bulb every couple of weeks. Our neighborhood electricity supply has always fluctuated and that seems to be death on Incandescents.
Actually, Thomas Edison invented a better incandescent light bulb a long time ago. I remember when I visited his lab as a kid they had original light bulbs still burning 75+ years on. I think he just realized that if the light bulb never burned out, you could only sell one set to each customer, so he included “planned obsolescence” in his product.
I’ve had 3 running for 10 years. No problem. I don’t plan on buying more these were freebies when the craze started.
I always flush the low-flow toilets/urinals two or three times just out of "Green" spite....
...scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a technological breakthrough that could make incandescent bulbs twice as energy-efficient as their replacements. MIT researchers discovered that by wrapping the filament of an incandescent bulb with a "photonic crystal," they could "recycle" the energy that was typically lost as heat to create more light... "The heat just keeps bouncing back in toward the filament until it finally ends up as visible light," MIT post-doctoral researcher Ognjen Ilic explained. "It reduces the energy that would otherwise be wasted."In that case, it should run cooler.
Really? I’ve been using CFLs for a while and never had an issue. What brand are you using? Even a better question, how is the power quality where you are located?
...Of course, it will cost $30 each...
But, not for those who bought a lifetime supply of the now forbidden ones at closeout prices and put them away.
and will be made in Mexico or somewhere else, not the US.
We don’t need an army of nerds in D.C. dictating what products can be manufacured and what people are allowed to buy. The only space for government in consumer goods is truth in labeling and prosecution for fraud.
The old light bulbs always lasted a long time. The new ones need constant replacement.
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