R.I.P. Light Bulb :(

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R.I.P. Light Bulb :(
Authored by: Dale.Harkness on Thursday, January 09 2014 @ 12:24 am EST

Oddly enough, I thought there was even some modern evolution going on with the incandescent bulbs a few years prior to the phase out. If I recall, someone came up with the idea to create a secondary enclosure for the filament to further increase efficiency but I never heard anything beyond a brief mention. I guess the mandate steamrollered over the top of any potential R&D for improvements like that.

Now the question is how to heat my lava lamp when the bulb eventually fails? And let's not even think about what would happen if I had an easy bake oven - pitchforks and torches come to mind. :)

I do like the idea of improvments, but mercury laced CFLs are far from an improvement that I would hope for. Even LEDs have their problems and until the prices come down, they're way out of line in price. Like Kermit said, it ain't easy being green (although I'm not sure how green the transition truly is). :D

R.I.P. Light Bulb :(
Authored by: masodo on Thursday, January 09 2014 @ 08:44 am EST

I heard (a while back) about a company in Germany marketing "HeatBalls" to get around the EU light bulb ban. A quick check on Yahoo yealds a nice article from the Matt Bowles Archive.

Below is a quote from a Reuters Article that reports this bit of "brilliance" (with a link to that article):

German heatball wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban | Reuters (via)

Rotthaeuser has pledged to donate 30 cents of every heatball sold to saving the rainforest, which the 49-year-old sees as a better way of protecting the environment than investing in energy-saving lamps, which which contain toxic mercury.

I am sure there are many applications where incandescent bulbs would out-shine these CFL...

In addition to the Easy Bake Oven and Lava Lamp (thanks Dale - it needed to be said) I would never think of using a CFL in a conventional oven or refrigerator. And what about poor Crush the pet turtle? What shall become of him as he basks under the cold green glow of a CFL?

I really cannot imagine using a CFL in a photographic enlarger so I will be looking to hoard some for that (and the safe-lights while I'm at it.)

Check out those above links and thanks for the comments [smiley::D]

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