A few years ago the United States banned the production of 100 watt light bulbs. Remember that? Less than twenty years later we’re permitting buildings to be built that consume as much energy as entire cities.
You can keep your data centers. I would like my hundred watt bulbs back please. One hundred-watt incandescent bulbs are no longer manufactured here in the US primarily due to over-reaching government energy-efficiency regulations, such as the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which mandated that bulbs produce more light (lumens) while using less energy. Because incandescent bulbs convert only a small percentage of energy into light, with most wasted as heat, tree huggers determined that they could not meet the required efficiency standards and were replaced by LEDs and CFLs.
Key reasons for the phase-out included:
High Energy Consumption: A 100-watt bulb produces significant heat, making it 'inefficient for lighting'.
Regulatory Standards: Rules require a minimum of 45 lumens per watt. The U.S. Department of Energy standards, often referred to as a "ban," specifically aimed to stop the production of inefficient bulbs.
Environmental Impact: Inefficient bulbs produce unnecessary carbon emissions, estimated at over 800,000 metric tons per month.
What a crock of shit. I want low-efficiency, bright white bulbs. Fuck all this LED bullshit. Bulbs are available in a variety of wattages and packs. Click the ad to see 'em all.
Juss' sayin'...
I have a couple applications where a 100 watt lightbulb provides enough heat to keep things from freezing. The heat produced is what I want ,the light is an added bonus.
ReplyDeletewell, that would be a start. now, how about washers and dryers with OUT computers in them ? you know the type you hooked up and they ran for YEARS ! kind of weird as I knew a guy who bought old washers and dryers about 20 years ago
ReplyDeleteand he rebuilt them to like new. made good money or so he said doing that. my neighbor has a 70's fridge in his basement that stills runs and keep very cold. it was there when he bought the house 20 years ago. if he ever moves again, he taking that fridge with him. and yes, it is green (?) but who cares as it has already outlasted 2 fridges in his kitchen ! here another bitch, remember when you Mom's hot water seem to last forever ? yeah. now your lucky if you get 4-5 years out of one. replaced my Mom's hot water heater and the date on it was 1968. yup, installed in 68 and last until 1994 or 5 I think it was. now ???
Well, you live in Florida, every wasted watt (80 or so in a light bulb) is wasted twice because your air conditioning has to coll it off again. I really don't get the hatred of LED lighting: the light is any color you want, it doesn't catch the towel you threw over it on fire, it's 1/20th the cost of electric, and it lasts practically forever. What is it you don't like?? If you need to use it as a heater for animals, they make Edison-base heaters for just that reason.
ReplyDeleteJust reclassified the bulbs as auxiliary heaters. The light is just a byproduct.
ReplyDeleteThe REAL reason behind the incandescent bulb ban: GE, among other lightbulb manufacturers, lobbied the George W Bush admin hard for the ban, because the incandescents had been perfected to such a degree (ie, they worked, were cheap, were reliable, had a good service life, etc) that Big Lightbulb found it impossible to generate the profits they desired from making and selling them. And thus those shitty pigtail CFLs were brought into being...
ReplyDeleteThe ban was rescinded several years back, but the only companies still making incandescents are located guess where? Thats right, red China, natch.
I think it was one company in Europe that started manufacturing high efficiency low temperature heaters...incandescent lightbulbs under a different name.
ReplyDeleteThe whole light bulb scam was created to eliminate demand for tungsten.
ReplyDeleteTungsten is next to gold on the periodic table. It is metallic and its weight is nearly identical to gold, making it an ideal metal for creating cores for fake gold coins and bars. Such fakes are extremely hard to detect.
The dead give away is the melting point. Tungsten melts at a much higher temperature than gold so a fake gold bar that is melted down leaves a tungsten core floating in the liquid gold.
Makes you wonder about that promised audit of Fort Knox gold, doesn't it?
DeleteWhat our meddling politicians did to us while becoming multi-millionaires selling favors and favored treatment:
ReplyDelete1. 100 watt light bulbs that were 3 or 4 for a dollar are now over $4 each.
2. No more simple, inexpensive, reliable direct convection refrigerators without complicated electronics and fans.
3. No more simple, inexpensive, reliable direct drive washing machines with simple controls instead of complicated electronics.
Hmmm. Along about the time Nancy P. was agitating to outlaw incandescents, then-girlfriend gave me a flat of bulbs for Christmas. She explained she was tired of finding burnt-out bulbs in my house.
ReplyDeleteI've got them stashed away somewhere; think I'm gonna dig 'em out put 'em on the market.
The quiet unspoken item is that there is no patent on the design of the light bulb. Edison is long dead. There is, however, current patents on LED technology. The companies that profit, bought themselves congress critters and rode it to the bank.
ReplyDeleteWe can't get honest elections thru Congress, real light bulbs is going to be a tough one... we don't have enough money to rent the needed lawmakers to get real bulbs back!
ReplyDeleteI bought a case each of 60W, 75W and 100W bulbs before the ban went into effect. So happy I did.
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