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Why the incandescent light bulb ban eliminates them entirely?
I have to on occasion work with trouble lights on automobiles or in crawl spaces in attics or under house. Bulb breakage is imminent and much expected. The blame is as much the hazardous placement as well as the techniques and situation. The work involves constant banging around jacking, not to mention the tools or materials usually damage or even break a bulb.
For instance on a recent classic car restoration project I shattered at least twenty bulbs in a five month period. That is pretty normal for crawling around under a car.
Considering the amount of mercury in the new CFL light bulb I would have turned my basement into an EPA hazardous waste zone. Thankfully I was aware of the mercury and had better sense. Still, why would my own government not easily think of this and force me to poison myself with a new law. Surely they thought this thing through better than that.
bob
You should use LED lights. They are many time more robust that incandescent bulbs. You will start to see more and more screw-in replacements as the phase-out of incandescents grows near.
The planned ban is based on all the energy that is wasted by incandescents as heat (rather than light). That is why CFL will say something like “20 W power, equivalent to 60 W brightness — that 40 W difference was being wasted as heat.
This is like mandating good mileage on cars, or “Energy Star” appliances. Or requiring a certain amount of insulation on new houses being built.
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