Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this week
Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this week
Thomas Edison's pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Get ready to say goodbye to the once ubiquitous incandescent light bulb, pioneered by Thomas Edison more than a century ago.
The rules establish strict new efficiency standards for bulbs used in homes and businesses and bans the manufacture and sale of those that don’t meet those requirements.
But those requirements carry a bit less heft than they would have several years back, largely because advances in LED technology and manufacturing have dramatically lowered prices and improved quality.
Between 2015 and 2020, for instance, the percentage of American households that reported using LED bulbs for most or all of their lighting jumped more than tenfold — from 4% to 47%, according to the Energy Information Administration, an independent federal statistics agency.
As the rules reinforce existing market changes, the Energy Department believes that U.S. consumers can save almost $3 billion annually on their utility bills.
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7HOLY FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER! This is the first time I've seen the autotldr bot on Lemmy!
Is there a way we can trigger this manually?
8Sadly, not yet, that's planned for when I have more time. Currently when it sees a site that it knows how to extract the content from, it provides a summary. Meaning it only works on communities it knows it exists.
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I mostly have CFL in my house right now. The way I figured it, the cost of LED at the time was more expensive than the savings over the CFL lifespan
2That was true several years ago. Now, LEDs are far more cost efficient.
7I finally switched out all my CFLs because I got tired of the power supply capacitors failing, exploding, and scaring the crap out of me. Electrolytic capacitors aren't limited to CFL power supplies tho, so I suspect we'll see the same failures as the LED bulbs age. It's typically not the LEDs or florescent tubes that fail, it's the cheap power supplies they drive them with.
I did like the delayed warm up CFLs had so they didn't just immediately turn on at full brightness. But now I'm spoiled after changing over to LED smart bulbs. Being able to set the color temperature and brightness levels on a schedule or according to what I'm doing at the time really feels like the future.
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