Posted on 05/16/2011 5:49:24 PM PDT by verum ago
NEW YORK – Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January.
Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show in Philadelphia this week mean that brighter LED bulbs will likely go on sale next year, but after a government ban takes effect.
The new bulbs will also be expensive — about $50 each — so the development may not prevent consumers from hoarding traditional bulbs. The technology in traditional "incandescent" bulbs is more than a century old. Such bulbs waste most of the electricity that feeds them, turning it into heat. The 100-watt bulb, in particular, produces so much heat that it's used in Hasbro's Easy-Bake Oven.
To encourage energy efficiency, Congress passed a law in 2007 mandating that bulbs producing 100 watts worth of light meet certain efficiency goals, starting in 2012. Conventional light bulbs don't meet those goals, so the law will prohibit making or importing them. The same rule will start apply to remaining bulbs 40 watts and above in 2014. Since January, California has already banned stores from restocking 100-watt incandescent bulbs.
Creating good alternatives to the light bulb has been more difficult than expected, especially for the very bright 100-watt bulbs. Part of the problem is that these new bulbs have to fit into lamps and ceiling fixtures designed for older technology.
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I paid 300.00 for my first caculator a desk model, two years later a Texas instrument pocket model cost 35.00. Today about two to five dollars for a pocket model.
The point isn’t that this isn’t a good product, or even that they aren’t economic in some applications.
It’s that our Federal Dictators have forgotten who is the master and who is the servant.
I don’t know where they are getting this $50 figure. You can buy them now for less than $20. Are they expensive yea, but you could leave them on continually for 20 years before they would burn out.
It is going to be really dark in the poor;s homes. The poor vote their own pain.
Oh no!
I’ll have no way to make a cake, if I can’t use my Hasbro Easy Bake Oven.
Oh, the humanity!
The LED will last 100 years but the cheap made in China AC/DC converter will crap out in less than a year. /s
“Such bulbs waste most of the electricity that feeds them, turning it into heat.”
Except during winter and in cooler climates where the heat is, well, HEAT.
Idiots.
I heard of some northern town who put LEDs into their traffic lights. Only problem was that the fixtures RELY on incandescent heat to melt the snow. They lost all their savings when they had to send out humans to clear off the snow off the new LED-laced fixtures.
I never thought I would be hoarding light bulbs like I live in Cuba or North Korea.
Watts..... Lumens......
I was going to say that. You can get LEDs for your car now, and they are not real expensive. You see them on big trucks all the time.
I think the real cost driver is in making the DC-transformer and LED assembly small enough to replace a traditional incandescent bulb.
Take a look at a night time image of North and South Korea.
The marxists consider North Korea to be a model state and want to turn us into that.
And they’re succeeding...
And how do the maintain uniform intensity. LEDs have a viewing angle, etc.
And LED intensity fades over time.
Then again, it might not.
Several problems with LED bulbs.
They are very expensive.
The transformers they are building in the bases of the bulbs are often poorly made, and will rust if exposed to moisture.
The bulbs tend to lose their brightness quickly. A LED bulb won’t burn out, but it quickly becomes so dim you will need a flashlight to find it. They are guaranteed not to burn out, but that doesn’t cover dimming.
Sure seems like another one of those half baked ideas that the Feds have come up with and will force Americans to use.
2 sixties in a Y adapter... ‘til they’re outlawed too.
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