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It’s Official: US Stores Can No Longer Sell Most Incandescent Lights
(www.nytimes.com)
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Won't matter when lightblub manufacturing companies all agreed upon limiting the lifespan of bulbs to increase turnover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Contrived_durability
There are incandescent bulbs that still work from over 100 years ago. Modern bulbs die with less than 10 years of use. Both incandescent and LED. But this new law will, of course, increase LED bulb sales. I'm sure no politicians have increases their GE shares before this.
This decision is about the energy efficiency of the bulbs. Incandescent bulbs turn almost all the energy they consume into infrared light and heat. LEDs turn most of the energy they use into light.
Technology Connections just released a video about this. Those 100 year bulbs (and long lasting ones) used more energy and produced too little light to be useful for a majority of people.
Technology Connections: Long Lasting Bulbs
Definitely nothing like what people would picture an incandescent bulb to look like. It's cool as a curiosity, but not as a light source.
Luckily for you, technology connection’s latest video goes into great detail as to why calling lightbulbs an example of planned obsolescence is definitely not accurate: https://youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY
The bulbs work for longer, but they require more power to use.
So far i have never replaced any LED bulbs, and the oldest ones i have are 15+ years old.
LED strips though, where a single dead led can bring down the whole strip, are absolutely a non sensical idea.
IME, LED whining gets me to replace them before they actually die. For old people who can't hear it, they should last longer.
Well I've replaced over 10 in like 3 years. They can get much hotter than incandescent, which can damage the internal circuitry. Perhaps personal experience isn't the best gauge of reliability