Please take a look at this information concerning the Green Energy Movement. Trillions of light bulbs by law will have to be changed out.
The Standard Edison Bulb that you have been screwing in all your life has now been banned. GE stopped manufacturing them in Sept, 2010
FYI… http://tinychoices.com/2010/11/15/incandescent-light-bulb-ban/
Google incandescent light bulb ban to find several articles on this subject.
Contact the Frankford CDC to learn more about purchasing LED bulbs.
But LEDs have problems too...
ReplyDeleteLEDs: The Lead and Arsenic Issue
Lead, arsenic and other toxic content, home breakage and disposal concerns
( ceolas.net/#li20ledx )
...it's a strange world that would ban the simple safe versatile cheap
incandescent light bulb, given the problem of CFLs with radiation and
mercury and lately cancer concerns, LEDs with lead and arsenic concerns
(The temporarily allowed Halogen replacement incandescents still being different and costing much more)
Much greater and more relevant savings of actual “energy waste” comes
from power plant and grid changes, and from preventing the unnecessary
usage of products eg night lighting in buildings,
than from preventing the personal choices of the products that people want to use.
More on why energy efficiency regulations are the wrong way towards using energy efficiently,
and why its really about profits for lobbying manufacturers, with documentation, on the mentioned ceolas.net website.