Posted on 09/15/2024 6:14:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(WTVO) — Soon Illinoisans will no longer be able to buy fluorescent light as a result of the Clean Lighting Act.
The main goal of the act is to stop pollution that comes from fluorescent lights. Fluorescent lighting is known to be incorrectly disposed of which leads to mercury and other toxins being released into the air.
The act changes the wording of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act. The law will take partial effect in 2026 by banning screw-based or bayonet-based compact fluorescent lamps from being produced or sold.
By 2027, the law will take full effect and will also ban pin-base compact fluorescent lights and fluorescent tubes.
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Who is the Illinois legislature working for? Is it China (largest LED manufacturer in the world, and supplier of 40% of LED lights in the U.S.), or Mexico (20% of LED lights sold in the U.S.)???
Just keep in mind that with LEDs you need to have a high CRI.
Incandescent bulbs have a CRI of 99 or 100. Many LEDs have a CRI of 80. You have to look, and you will pay a little bit more. But getting close to Full Spectrum Lighting is a lot healthier. The LEDs with a CRI of 80 have almost no red light which is very important for your health
Totally agree, and their price has come way down And considering they use 1/8 the energy of an incandescent, you have to be a fundamentalist luddite, of which freeperland has no shortage, to prefer the old incandescent over LEDs.
You can buy 40w appliance bulbs at any hardware store or on amazon. They were not banned.
I bet the lawmakers feel really good about themselves. Banning a product you basically can’t find anyway.
Same here. Now the only way to find the old bulbs is on eBay.
Ain’t no man telling me I ain’t getting flowcent bubs.
Chicago Illinoisans
I don't believe that they need to be banned, because the alternatives are so superior, free choice will eventually eliminate fluorescents.
Obozo Bush started the lightbulb ban ball rolling. It was set to happen until the pushback.
“40w appliance bulbs”
DON’’T SAY THAT! It is what I use now!
Wasn’t it the government who pushed the CFL bulbs, because the 100 year old incandescent were causing global warming?
HOW MANY ‘MANUFACTURING’ FACILITIES re there in Illinois???
That kind of lighting is very prevalent in large areas—including office settings.
I have such lighting in my garage-—19++++ years later, I have NOT CHANGED A SINGLE BULB.
REPLACING all the fluorescent system with LED is going to be VERY EXPENSIVE & VERY DISRUPTIVE.
I wonder how many businesses will push back???
ALSO——WHERE are all the replacement systems going to come from???
IT is serious & expensive business to make such a switch.
MIGHT be great for new buildings.
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF EXISTING BUILDINGS in ILLINOIS THAT SUDDENLY HAVE TO MAKE A SWITCH.
WHERE WILL ALL THOSE REPLACEMENT SUPPLIES COME FROM -—AND HOW MUCH WILL THEY COST UNDER THIS MANDATE???
I can see it for NEW buildings.
NOT older ones. Deal with the disposal issues.
This is a sledgehammer for a thumbtack issue.
THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
THEY ARE DESIGNED to deal with the heat in an oven & the cold in a refrigerator.
Oh, F these people. Do they NOT understand about consumer choice??? The curly lightbulbs aren’t my first preference, but if some people want them, why must they be banned from buying them?
I had a shop-light bulb break in my basement back in Maryland once. I carefully disposed of it. Neither my mother nor I got sick from it. The cat didn’t get sick from it. These people are NUTS! Frickin’ Commies!
Nanny State PING!
I have a desk lamp that my Dad had before I was born. I am 84.
IT uses 2 fluorescent bulbs.
I have done bookkeeping & accounting for 67 years, the last 44 self employed-—working with that desk lamp.
I have NEVER felt ANY discomfort under that lamp....and there have been many days of 14 hours & more.
Maybe you can help me with my math. On Home Depot’s website, I can buy a 30 pack of 16 watt T8 LED tubes for $9.52 per LED bulb. I can buy a 30 pack of 32 watt T8 fluorescent tubes for $3.17 per bulb. Given that, I will spend $6.35 more for an LED bulb.
Electricity where I live in eastern WA is 8 cents per kwh, or .008 cents per watt. So if I am saving .128 cents per hour with an LED (.008 cents * 16 watts difference in their energy consumption), but spending 635 cents ($6.35) to get that savings, must I run my LED tube for 4960 hours (635 cents / .128 cents per hour) to break even?
Put another way, if I run those LED tubes in my current fluorescent light fixtures in my basement for only one hour per day all year, that is 365 days per year times one hour =365 hours per year, that means it will take me 4960 hours / 365 hours per year over 13 years for a payback, right?
I know there is a qualitative difference between fluorescent and LED as you note, but in a purely dollars and cents evaluation, unless I’ve got a decimal point messed up, or unless one lives in CA where electricity is much more expensive, the jump to LED may not be quite so compelling?
Well they certainly can’t allow the sale of kerosene lamps.
The Walmart LED bulbs that are suppose to last nine years, only last about nine weeks. Cheap China Crap!
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