> ... they'll say "no that's simply not the case with LED lighting since the year... 2009 or whatever ..." Yeah. Making things even worse is the fact that wear

> ... they'll say "no that's simply not the case with LED lighting since the year... 2009 or whatever ..." Yeah. Making things even worse is the fact that wear and tear from these things aging can make them really terrible to be in the same room with... but this doesn't seem to be something that folks are generally aware of, and is almost certainly something that approximately no one tests for. I used to have rock-solid dimmable Cree LED bulbs in my fixtures. When I installed them, they were great. I had them installed for something like five years. I blamed the headaches I had been regularly getting over the previous ~six months on poor diet, exercise... the usual things. After noticing that nights spent with the lights off correlated with reduced or absent headaches, I replaced the bulbs with another highly-regarded brand and model. Other than the occasional caffeine-withdrawl headache, I haven't had a headache since. I don't know if every LED bulb -er- "wears bad" like this, but I'd be surprised to hear that most of them do not. "The thing still makes light, but gives a notable subset of the population godawful headaches." doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that politicians who are "concerned" about the environment will care much about. That fact would really complicate the "They last for ten+ years, which massively reduces waste!" narrative.