It's Lights Out For The Incandescent Bulb In Calif

NPR ^ | January 23, 2011 | The Associated Press via NPR

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Traditional incandescent bulbs are cheap and reliable."

And non-toxic. I don't need to call in an EPA certified hazmat team if I should break one. Plus they won't contribute millions of tons of mercury to landfills.

[Teotwawki]

It won't save the consumers any money. Besides costing more for the bulb, if electricity consumption was reduced then the utilities would just raise the rates so they continued to receive the same amount of revenue.

It happened during a drought in California. The utilities told people to cut back on usage. They did. Too much. Utilities lost revenue, so they raised the rates to make up the difference.

[roamer_1]

One of the more amazing claims is that incandescent bulbs produce a more natural light. Hmm. Think about that a while ~ electric lighting is totally man-made

As one who is very sensitive to light, and especially "natural light", I will concur: Florescents are probably closer to natural light. I know that because I use florescent light to wake up with, and if I am around florescent light at night, I won't get tired.

That being said, florescent light SUCKS, is not as useful as light, and is poor to read by.

And compact florescents are *not* what they are hyped up to be either. We bought them for savings, but found they seldom last as long as advertised, causing our investment to go up, for what we consider to be an inferior product.

[jennings2004]

Spoken like a true capitialist!

[utherdoul]

I keep seeing ads for the Nissan leaf. They keep saying innovation. All I see is “Innoavtion for brown outs”

[jennings2004]

Wrong! Don’t you know that one of the leading Republicans who started this bandwagon was appointed by “Boner” as Chairman of an important energy committee..I sure he will be on this like “white on rice” to get it taken down.../s

[jennings2004]

Have you ever considered the “math” involved with CBO “guesses”?

[Jack Hydrazine]

You can get incandescent light bulbs rated for 25,000 hours that are used by the hospitality industry. If you use them for an average of 7 hours a day they’ll burn out in just a little under 10 years and cost about a buck or less per bulb depending on how many you buy.

https://www.nathosp.com/product/25k19_c/standard_incandescent_light_bulbs

Once you stock up all you’ll have to do is watch out for the light bulb police who’ll be monitoring everyone who might be using those unauthorized, evil incandescents!

[Republican Wildcat]

They mean the color - and they are quite correct.

[thecodont]

No, you’re right—all technology _is_ FAKE.

These people who love their iPhones and Gore-Tex and plastics would also have us living in the Stone Age when it comes to energy.

It’s a real disconnect.

[The Great RJ]

I suppose that the Edison bulb in the Livermore, CA fire station that has been burning continuously for more than a century will be turned off by enviro-nazis. Link

[muawiyah]

Checking into what Noah Horowitz was talking about I discovered he was talking about standards applicable to not only lighting but to a whole bunch of other stuff ~ washers, dryers, stoves, fans, TVs, radios, etc.

I couldn't find any reference he made to the specifics of home lighting.

The fact is home lighting is such a small fraction of American use of electric power that it really isn't worth discussing. The really big users of lights are department stores, shopping malls, schools, public buildings, offices, factories, warehouses ~ etc. and they've ALL been lit up with fluorescent lighting for most of a century. Highway and parking lot lighting are bigger consumers of electric power than home lighting ~ and there a wide variety of non-incandescent systems are normal.

The whole business of replacing home incandescent lights with some other form of light was just propaganda and to enable environmental activists feel they'd be "doing something" that hadn't already been done by hard core capitalist investors who owned factories!

[muawiyah]

Bet they don’t know about the ketchup!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

If somebody knows how many incandescents would be in a standard “case”, please let me know. I’m looking at some online, but it is specifying “case”, but no number of bulbs. Grrrrr ...

[muawiyah]

Frankly you can take your color and stick it where there are no lightbulbs and it'll still be the same ~ if you want a pink hue to your lightbulbs use a pink filter.

[Innovative]

‘You can get incandescent light bulbs rated for 25,000 hours that are used by the hospitality industry. If you use them for an average of 7 hours a day they’ll burn out in just a little under 10 years and cost about a buck or less per bulb depending on how many you buy.

https://www.nathosp.com/product/25k19_c/standard_incandescent_light_bulbs “

THANKS FOR THE INFO AND THE LINK!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bookmarked it and will be stocking up, while they are still available.

Much appreciated.

[domeika]

A german company is selling bulbs as “heatballs” because the euro-nazis outlawed regular light bulbs in 2009.

[Innovative]

Please check out link posted by JH:

https://www.nathosp.com/product/25k19_c/standard_incandescent_light_bulbs

There it says there are 24 bulbs in a pack — these are the 10-yr bulbs. The shorter life ones are much cheaper, also on the website.

https://www.nathosp.com/prod_detail_list/standard_incandescent_light_bulbs

There it says a case has 120 bulbs.

[SoothingDave]

http://www.heinz.com/glutenfree/products.html

Heinz ketchup is gluten free. I don’t know what you are talking about with McDonald’s ketchup.

[businessprofessor]

You make some excellent points. There is probably a study that indicates home lighting as a reasonable part of the electrical grid just because there are millions of homes. If one assumes rational consumers, CFLs and other less energy intensive technology will be utilized appropriately regardless of government mandates. The mandates only force irrational usage.