Infrared light (or heat) is only waste in the summer if you live in a very hot region. Both fluorescent and diode have problems: 1) Fluorescent contain poison

Infrared light (or heat) is only waste in the summer if you live in a very hot region. Both fluorescent and diode have problems: 1) Fluorescent contain poisonous mercury, one man had to amputate his foot after stepping on a broken bulb. 2) Both emit ultra violet light that is bad for your health. 3) LEDs emit a very narrow frequency which is not something your eyes can work with, this will improve over time by spreading the spectrum which is expensive and never replace incandescent lights in terms of vision comfort. In Europe the law is still here, so we have to hoard incandescent lights if we wish to keep using them, but photographers still need them so they will be available forever if you know how to hustle. My trick is to use a 60 watt lamp that I dim down to 40 watts, that way they last longer, basically emulating how they where manufactured before the cartel: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/t... The real problem here is that incandescent light bulbs can be manufactured to last decades, but are made weaker to sell more bulbs. And here now law was made! The other problem is living in large houses that have many lights and also require more heating and switching lamps on and off all the time (breaking them sooner) when moving around in the house. The law should be "maximum 20 square meters indoor living space per person". That would make a difference, everything else is just another form of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."! The curly haired guy in the clip is one of those guys, inventing themselves a "job". That said the orange guy is not any better, so we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.