Ban on incandescent light bulbs

In Australia we've replaced most of them already.

The new "fluorescents" are fine and you can choose day blue light or warmer shades for night.

A friend of mine has started installing LEDs (he has a low cost source) and I suspect that as LED prices drop for the different colour options we'll all happily install them - although the initial cost is higher they last so long that the price per year is going to be a lot lower.
 
Quote from dcraig:

Nonsense. You are just making stuff up.


http://www.climatechange.gov.au/what-you-need-to-know/lighting/resources/fs.aspx

CFLs actually reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment due to their dramatically lower power consumption and the saving of electricity generated by coal burning. Burning coal releases various metals into the environment including mercury, uranium and thorium.
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Even if true which I doubt, ... what does that have to do if one breaks in your home... Do you know what happens when you break one in your home...
 
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Mercury_emissions_by_light_source_(en).svg
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I see you believe what the special interests errr I mean experts put out... I'm not saying that isn't true but I dont put blind faith in "experts" these days.... Listen, with all this junk science floating around because of special interest everything is suspect to me because they all have an agenda.... Everyone is trying to sell us something.

But my point was that what the poster above was trying to say is that if one breaks in your home you and your family will be exposed to mercury, thus your post rebutting his was actually unrelated to his. He wasn't talking about the environment, he was talking about one breaking in his home.
 
Quote from Pekelo:

In Germany a company circumvented the law by selling the old bulbs as HEATING devices. They (correctly) stated that 98% of the energy goes for heating and only 2% for creating light, and so far they have been getting away with it....
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In Europe you can also buy incandescent laps in a hardware store. Apparently, for certain industrial applications fluorescent bulbs are not bright enough.

Also from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8367933.stm
Energy-efficient light bulbs lose on average 22% of their brightness over their lifetime, a study has found.
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I can buy an 8 pack of 60w incandescent bulbs at the local Home Depot for under $2.50 the cheapest CFL bulb is $2.50+ a piece.

I've used both in my house, the CFL's don't last that much longer and they are no where near as bright.

It's bullshit.
 
The development of LED technology has caused their efficiency and light output to rise exponentially, with a doubling occurring about every 36 months since the 1960s, in a way similar to Moore's law. The advances are generally attributed to the parallel development of other semiconductor technologies and advances in optics and material science. This trend is normally called Haitz's Law after Dr. Roland Haitz. [24]

In February 2008, 300 lumens of visible light per watt luminous efficacy (not per electrical watt) and warm-light emission was achieved by using nanocrystals.[25]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode
 
Quote from Pekelo:

In Germany a company circumvented the law by selling the old bulbs as HEATING devices. They (correctly) stated that 98% of the energy goes for heating and only 2% for creating light, and so far they have been getting away with it....
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This is actually an important use. As many plumbers and old farmers know, it's hard to beat a simple 100W bulb under a box (or just next to a pipe) to keep pipes and pumps from freezing.
 
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