[alicewonders]

Which means it's 100% efficient if the heat is on.

We repair and restore antique lamps at our place of business. In the winter, I don't use any other heat source to heat our shop except lamps. Turn on about 50 lamps and the place really heats up. We keep the lamps off in the summer.

I realize the lowly incandescent bulb is not energy efficient, but I love it's warm, amber light. I hate those bright curly-cue light bulbs that everyone keeps pushing on me. When I have one of those on, I feel like I'm in a dentist's chair, having my teeth worked on. Not cozy, not cozy at all.

[robertpaulsen]

In the antique lamp catalogs I've looked at, they sell the Victorian light bulbs using a carbon filament rather than tungsten.

Do you see a difference?

[joebuck]

"I realize the lowly incandescent bulb is not energy efficient, but I love it's warm, amber light. I hate those bright curly-cue light bulbs that everyone keeps pushing on me."

I finally ran into one of those curly bulbs this summer on vacation - there was one in the lamp next to the bed. I wouldn't have noticed it except when I was in bed reading at night. I looked up at the light bulb when I noticed how bad the light was for reading. They are bad light to read by so none in my office/reading room.