Comments on: Swapping incandescent light bulbs to Compact Fluorescent Lights

By: Ricardo Senger

Ricardo Senger — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:02:50 +0000

Wow, great blog. Much obliged.

By: Electrician Raleigh NC

Electrician Raleigh NC — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:18:02 +0000

I agree with Hubbs. There are pros and cons to this discussion.

By: energy light bulbs

energy light bulbs — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:18:28 +0000

The Little Extra Efforts That Give You The Edge . Smallest of small saving on our exhaustible energy resources can bear us great fruits in future.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:00:13 +0000

A federal mandate due to take effect starting in 2012 will begin the slow phase-out of incandescent bulbs. The choices that will remain boil down to three options:

Spiral CFL’s
Traditional Round (A-Shaped) CFL’s
LED’s

It will probably be years before LED’s reach a price that low enough to make them attractive and because they’re still quite new, there are still some bugs to be worked out. Spiral CFL’s are by far the least expensive option but they pose a serious problem when using clip-on shades that were never designed to fit them. Round CFL’s solve that problem but on average they cost about FOUR TIMES MORE than spiral CFL’s of the same wattage.

But there is a solution. It’s called the Magic Toob Lampshade Leveler and it’s designed to permanently fix the poor fit problem for about $1 per lampshade. It uses high temperature silicone tubing to cover any bulb clip and allow it to grip any shape of bulb. You can see a demonstration and find out more at http://www.magictoob.com

Jack

By: Jacques Schonek

Jacques Schonek — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:10:48 +0000

The post “How green are CFLs?” is now available on this site.

Probably, the way to eliminate the incandescent lamps will be through regulations. For example changing the rules so that they will not have the CE marking anymore.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:12:06 +0000

thank you for this interesting approach, i wonder what are the regulations on this subject, do the European States will taxe soon strongly the old technology bulbs in favor of the fluorescent bulbs ; do you think that the market will keep the 2 ? -may be it’s already the case -
any way, I am waiting for your next post about “how green are they” ; in my case i have some douts and would be interested to stock some old ones for my home …