Reporting from Sacramento — Having a tough time finding a conventional 100-watt light bulb? That’s because California was allowed to jump the gun on next year’s nationwide phase-out of the standard ...
Say goodbye to the old-style light bulb. On Wednesday, it will become illegal to manufacture or import 60- and 40-watt incandescent bulbs because of federally mandated efficiency standards signed into ...
Still confused about the phase-out of incandescent bulbs? Let's shed some light. Jan. 1 marked the beginning of a new era: Inefficient 40- and 60-watt incandescent bulbs — which represent more than ...
Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns bright ...
Time has just about run out for the energy-wasting incandescent light bulb. Starting January 1, 2014, companies in the United States will no longer be able to manufacture or import standard 40-watt ...
As of Jan. 1 of this year, the 60-watt incandescent light bulb—that classic of the genre; the Edisonian ideal; the signifier that illuminates in your mind’s eye when you’re asked to picture “a light ...
The federal government’s ban on incandescent light bulbs took effect on Tuesday, more than a decade and a half after such a rule was first proposed intending to promote energy efficiency. A federal ...
As of January 1, traditional 75-watt incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured in the United States, continuing a national transition to more efficient lighting by 2014. The first phase ...