America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    There are other uses of incandescent bulb beyond lighting. We use them to heat small enclosures in the winter and we have light to work in the space if that needss to happen. To use heat tape or space heaters is far more likely to catch fire.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      And for those uses they aren’t getting phased out:

      Surprisingly, there is a whole slew of exempt special-purpose bulbs that will continue to be manufactured, according to the Energy Department. Here’s what manufacturers can still build and stores can continue selling:

      Appliance lamps, including fridge and oven lights

      Black lights

      Bug lamps

      Colored lamps

      Infrared lamps

      Left-handed thread lamps

      Plant lights

      Floodlights

      Reflector lamps

      Showcase lamps

      Traffic signals

      Some other specialty lights, including marine lamps and some odd-sized bulbs

    • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Isn’t that the worse way for your outcome? Isn’t there a more efficient method that reliably heats without light ?

      • salton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Well 98% of the energy used by an incandescent bulb is given off as Infrared light that you would sense as heat.

          • ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.oneEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            As far as I understand, energy is conserved. Light inside a closed box will ultimately turn to heat too.

        • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          Isn’t that a pretty flawed design flaw then. Why not use a heater as a heater rather than a light bulb ? Or like a heat lamp ?

          • salton@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            Sometimes you will just introduce more safety issues if you try to overengineer things. In a lot of cases you have to assume that not everything that you want will be easily available and cheap, available and safe will beat some plastic thing ordered from ali express by Walmart.

            • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              11 months ago

              No not in the contest of a heater. Think that’s just being silly now. Something we’ve required since the dawn of humanity.