GOVT ABOUT TO MANDATE LED’s
LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms
NEW YORK – Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January.
Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show in Philadelphia this week mean that brighter LED bulbs will likely go on sale next year, but after a government ban takes effect.
The new bulbs will also be expensive — about $50 each — so the development may not prevent consumers from hoarding traditional bulbs.
The technology in traditional “incandescent” bulbs is more than a century old. Such bulbs waste most of the electricity that feeds them, turning it into heat. The 100-watt bulb, in particular, produces so much heat that it’s used in Hasbro’s Easy-Bake Oven.
To encourage energy efficiency, Congress passed a law in 2007 mandating that bulbs producing 100 watts worth of light meet certain efficiency goals, starting in 2012. Conventional light bulbs don’t meet those goals, so the law will prohibit making or importing them. The same rule will start apply to remaining bulbs 40 watts and above in 2014.
Are you ready?
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3 comments:
Not just a price problem with LEDs...
LEDs - like CFLs before them- have recently been found to have serious home breakage and disposal concerns, having lead, arsenic and toxic vapor content,
according to University of California (Davis and Irvine) research
http://ceolas.net/#li20ledx
They suggest wearing safety protection when LED breakage occurs and that the bulbs should be recycled.
They also maintain that there was insufficient product testing
before LED bulbs came onto the market. There was a law that was supposed to take effect on January 1 that would have mandated such testing, but it was opposed and blocked by industry groups, and has been put on hold...
BTW like the book pic ;-)
Yes the light bulb ban surely fits in there...
Overall,
the ban on the popular simple cheap safe types of incandescents makes no sense, from any perspective...
not just re freedom of choice,
not just re usage safety,
not just re there not being an electricity shortage for paying
customers (and even less so in the future, with all the renewable and
low emission alternatives)
- but also the overall society energy savings are small, less than 1%, as from US Dept of Energy and EU institutional own figures (http://ceolas.net/#li171x ).
Besides, notice how light bulb manufacturers have pushed for and
welcomed this ban on cheap unprofitable light bulbs.
(http://ceolas.net/#li12ax with documentation and references).
I advocated against the compact fluorescent when their introduction was first proposed for the simple reason that they will be obsolescent long before the ban on incandescent
bulbs comes into place.LED's will soon replace all lighting, even if it now costs $100, my first cellphone was $1800 and the size and weight of a dictionary.CF lighting is the same jump in technology as the jump to electric typewriters vs. manual or computers, at the time computers were outrageously expensive, huge and clumsy.
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