Just to qualify in the US, the law requires bulbs to be more efficient by 2012. There is time to wring out efficiency in inandescents, and hopefully not include Mercury.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/492/phase-out-incandescent-light-bulbs/ On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]>wrote: > On 17 Aug 2009 at 9:40, paul chinnery wrote: > > > I think the writer is wrong about the incandescent bulbs, though. > There > > going to be around for a long time. I've replaced some of mine, but I > still > > like to use the incandescent for reading. > > If you want to keep using incandescents, you need to stock up. Already > illegal > in the EU, going to be illegal in the US in 3 years or so: > > ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- > FAQ: The End of the Light Bulb as We Know It - US News and World Report > December 19, 2007 > > The incandescent light bulb, one of the most venerable inventions of its > era but deemed too inefficient for our own, will be phased off the U.S. > market beginning in 2012 under the new energy law just approved by > Congress. > > --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- > More here with links: > > http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/economy/2007/12/19/faq-the-end-of-the-light-bulb-as-we-know-it.html > or here if the above wraps unusably: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2aeatc > > Send Your Light Bulbs To Washington > http://sendyourlightbulbstowashington.wordpress.com/ > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-290-5038 > +-----------------------------------+ > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
