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That's an LED though. I understood he was referring to incandescent light bulbs, which have been largely regulated out of the market. So you now need to get an
by cmenge 2y ago
That's an LED though.
I understood he was referring to incandescent light bulbs, which have been largely regulated out of the market. So you now need to get an "Edison light bulb" which circumvenes regulation but costs significantly more.
- naabb 2y agoGood, that's the point. Price out the products that are bad for the environment. They are still there if you want to contribute to the degradation of the environment
- cmenge 2y ago"Bad for the environment" is relative. The problem here is that they tell you: - We're building renewables which deliver super clean and cheap energy - CO2 is the root of all evil Then, they force you to use an LED which uses less energy (which is clean and cheap, no?) but contains a lot more chemicals and rare earths, so in a number of ways seems less "environmentally friendly". This seems contradictory and half-assed.
- jillyboel 2y agoI'm confused. The US also banned incandescent lamps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh... > A ban covering most general service incandescent lamps took effect in the United States in 2023 So you can't even buy them in the US anymore, either. And cheap LEDs are available everywhere, with many color temperatures to choose from.
- cmenge 2y agoI wasn't aware of that, interesting, thanks. Light temperature is one thing, but the spectrum is very different (which is essentially how it saves energy, almost all radiation emitted is a narrow band of visible light whereas an incandescent lamp produces a blackbody spectrum with a lot of radiation emitted in the infrared). Also I notice a lot of color banding (not sure if that's the right term) with many cheap LEDs. I observe the same or at least a very similar phenomenon when watching DLP cinema projections.