It’s Official: Stores Can No Longer Sell Most Incandescent Lights
www.nytimes.com
New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect, relegating Edison’s glowing orbs to the history books.

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  • pec@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Here we heat our homes 70% of the year, I wonder, does that mean the heat was not a energy loss during that time?

    • Uranium3006@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      hypothetically, no. this assumes you were going to use electric resistive heating instead and the outside temperature when you used them was about when you used the bulbs. overall it’s better to just get efficient bulbs anyways so you aren’t wasting energy in the summer. I delayed replacing my last CFL because of this