The man who saved the lightbulb

Fox News ^ | December 16, 2013 | Jeremy A. Kaplan

[PJ-Comix]

A modern day Edison has a bright idea: a way to keep the incandescent bulb burning brightly, despite a government law set to go into effect New Year’s Day that effectively outlaws the most commonly used lightbulbs.

Most bulbs, that is. Not those made by lightbulb savior Larry Birnbaum.

“When the government decided to ban incandescent lightbulbs, they left a loophole in the law. An opening,” Birnbaum told FoxNews.com. “What that was was rough service.”

[PJ-Comix]

Many people are unsatisfied by those twisty compact fluorescent bulbs, he said, the main alternative to incandescent bulbs. “People don’t like the color, the fact that they don’t go on right away, the fact that they have mercury.”

That's pretty much of a deal killer for me right there. Yeah, I flip the "on" switch and then I have to WAIT for it to turn on?

[Steely Tom]

The color absolutely sucks. No way.

I want a spectrum created by the Boltzmann distribution, not some phony electronic transitions slapped together by psychologists at MegaTechCorp’s marketing department.

I have several hundred 60-watters in the basement. That’ll be enough (I hope) for either (a) this dumb law to be repealed or circumvented, or (b) a decent fit to the black-body curve to be accomplished by LEDs and phosphors.

[EinNYC]

Yeah. I just came back from a shopping expedition to a particularly good 99 cent store, where I stocked up big-time on 25W tubular incandescent bulbs. Typical of the libtards to not consider unforeseen consequences of their bans and schmans. How are my little lizards supposed to keep warm and bask without incandescent heat-producing bulbs? Dimtards!

[BlessedBeGod]

Looks like his website is down:

http://www.newcandescent.com/

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[dontreadthis]

there are several online retailers of rough service higher wattage bulbs, eg bulbs.com

[Patriot Babe]

Weird have no problems and I’m sure going to buy from them.

[Bobalu]

And don’t forget Lava Lamps!
They need heat and light :-)

[bigbob]

I love the color, especially in my shop. 6500K full daylight, just like God designed light to be.

[moovova]

I remember Rush interviewing this guy when he became an advertiser on the program. Didn’t he buy an old lightbulb facility that had been shutdown because of the cutback in incandescents?

[arthurus]

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[rawhide]

I have so many incandescent light bulbs at different watts that I will never run out. In fact, I should put them in my will.

[rawhide]

there are several online retailers of rough service higher wattage bulbs, eg bulbs.com

Any auto parts store should have these rough service bulbs.

[Ditter]

I going to call them tomorrow and see if he has a distributor in Houston. If not I’ll order some from him. thanks PJ

[kitchen]

"Daylight" bulbs are 3500° Kelvin.

[cripplecreek]

5840.3ºF ?

[Right Wing Assault]

6500K full daylight

But it doesn't look like daylight.

[Steely Tom]

Are you posting from a planet that is orbiting Procyon? It has a surface temperature of 6,530 ± 50 K, and is only 11.46 light-years distant. Radiates quite a lot of UV, so don’t forget to wear sunscreen when you go out. At least SPF of 550,000,000 I should think.

[kitchen]

Kelvin Color Temperature is the light emitted from a black body energy source at that given temperature. K = C - 273

[par4]

"Daylight" fluorescents are 5000K, what was previously referred to as cool white is 4100K and warm white was 3000K. 3500K is a middle value used more in offices to cut back on the bluer tinge of the 4100K lamps without the yellow appearance of the 3000K lamps,

The manufacturers are marketing compact fluorescent lamps at 2700K as similar to incandescents since they are closer to the red end of the spectrum like an incandescent.

6500K are available, but not commonly available and the cost is much more than 4100K. The metal halides you see at warehouse stores run around 5000K.

[Chickensoup]

I was up in Quebec City last early winter, before holidays. They use the energy efficient bulbs there. The whole city is murky. It looks lit but the light doesn’t travel far.

Murky cities, that is the leftist dream for us.