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It’s Official: US Stores Can No Longer Sell Most Incandescent Lights
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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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.