It’s Official: Stores Can No Longer Sell Most Incandescent Lights
www.nytimes.com
New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect, relegating Edison’s glowing orbs to the history books.

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  • TempleSquare@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Good riddance. I could always tell how inefficient those bulbs were, simply from trying to touch them to change the bulb. All that heat is wasted energy.

    Plus there’s a lot of neat things we can do with the new LED bulbs, including adding Wi-Fi circuits to make them smart bulbs. And the price of those LED bulbs is dropped so much, I don’t even really worry about the price difference anymore.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I just found out that my mother has 6 or 7 gigantic moving boxes full of incandescent bulbs in her self storage container.

      She tells me they will be needed once the led bulb conspiracy fails. And that they will be worth a lot of money, enough to pay for her retirement.

      I can’t even