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Can you tell me the difference in an incandescent and halogen light bulb as far as how the light is? Like what difference it will make?
Halogen's usually have a higher color temp 3,000k-3,500k making them more yellowish white. Good for flood lighting small to medium outside areas or in ceiling cans.
An incandescent is usually 2,700k or lower making them a duller yellow not so white. Its more inviting people say that's all.
Halogens also emit more heat than a regular incandescent bulb so don't buy them if you're trying to cut down on your cooling bill. Buy CFL's or LED's.
Halogen bulbs are the same exact ones your car's headlights use (of course, except if you drive certain cars that use Xenon bulbs, like Lexus or Lincoln). They are brighter, use less energy, and usually produce a very nice yellow-white light. The same you see on your car
Halogen replacement incandescents with marginal usage saving at much higher cost, hence unpopularity in a free choice either with politicians or consumers. = no Halogen replacement programs as with CFLs or LEDs!
They will be phased out anyway in the USA based on 45 lumen per W rule (equating to CFL level) in Tier 2 of EISA 2007 law 2014-2017, possible extension to 2020.
Similarly Canada, which is adopting US law, and current EU and Australia etc legislation.
(More info, [url=http://freedomlightbulb.org]Freedom Light Bulb | How and Why the Incandescent Light Bulb Ban is Wrong[/url] )
Adding to reply elsewhere re the light quality etc differences,
Halogen replacement incandescents with marginal usage saving at much higher cost, hence unpopularity in a free choice either with politicians or consumers. = no Halogen replacement programs as with CFLs or LEDs!
They will be phased out anyway in the USA based on 45 lumen per W rule (equating to CFL level) in Tier 2 of EISA 2007 law 2014-2017, possible extension to 2020.
Similarly Canada, which is adopting US law, and current EU and Australia etc legislation.
(More info, [url=http://freedomlightbulb.org]Freedom Light Bulb | How and Why the Incandescent Light Bulb Ban is Wrong[/url] )
BTW, hold onto your old lamps. Not only are they of great quality if made here, but it won't be long before the gub-ment tries to outwit the hoarders by banning importation of lamps which accommodate greater than 40-watt bulbs, or don't accommodate the old bulbs at all.
For once I agree with conservatives. This was an asinine law, and nothing more than a giveaway to manufacturers. I hate CFLs. The color of the light still isn't correct in my opinion, and they can't produce nearly the lumens, despite what the packaging says. Their cost is still MUCH higher. The energy savings is minimal. And I frankly don't care if a bulb lasts ten years. I think we all know what happens when a light bulb stays in the socket too long.
For once I agree with conservatives. This was an asinine law, and nothing more than a giveaway to manufacturers. I hate CFLs. The color of the light still isn't correct in my opinion, and they can't produce nearly the lumens, despite what the packaging says. Their cost is still MUCH higher. The energy savings is minimal. And I frankly don't care if a bulb lasts ten years. I think we all know what happens when a light bulb stays in the socket too long.
It's not asinine at all. Incandescents waste 99% of the energy they take in by emitting it as heat and only 1% as light. If every American home has incandescents, all that waste seriously adds up. Plus, the law does not outright ban incandescents, it just sets standards that existing incandescents do not meet. If some entrepreneur wants to swoop in and develop incandescents that meet those standards, they are free to do so.
It's not asinine at all. Incandescents waste 99% of the energy they take in by emitting it as heat and only 1% as light. If every American home has incandescents, all that waste seriously adds up. Plus, the law does not outright ban incandescents, it just sets standards that existing incandescents do not meet. If some entrepreneur wants to swoop in and develop incandescents that meet those standards, they are free to do so.
But we already have lamps that everyone likes, well, except the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do leaders. When I drive late night past the White House and see only a small lamp shining from the residence, and then past the Capitol and see no lights on there, and the same with every damn government building in DC, then we'll talk about the lights in MY house!
The halogens as they exist now would be banned. That's not to say that they can't make a more efficient version in the next six years and have them still available. Who knows what will be available in six years?
It's not asinine at all. Incandescents waste 99% of the energy they take in by emitting it as heat and only 1% as light. If every American home has incandescents, all that waste seriously adds up. Plus, the law does not outright ban incandescents, it just sets standards that existing incandescents do not meet. If some entrepreneur wants to swoop in and develop incandescents that meet those standards, they are free to do so.
Of course it's asinine.
The idea of the government deciding what light bulb you should buy is utter insanity. It's worthy of armed revolt. The lunatics are in charge, and they are control freaks.
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Those Halogens will be banned too
