Tag: Incandescent Bulbs
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Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency
Our inefficient, carbon-based energy economy threatens to irreversibly disrupt the Earth's climate. Averting dangerous climate change and the resultant crop-shrinking heat waves, more-destructive storms,
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Not Enlightened by CFLs in Cathedrals (Photos)
On a recent trip to the south of Spain, I visited the beautiful Cathedral of Seville, amongst the largest of all medieval and Gothic cathedrals, in terms of both area and volume. According to Wikipedia, the interior is the
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Selling Incandescent Bulbs as Heaters: Loophole or Art?
Banning old lightbulbs seems like low-hanging fruit, an easy way to significantly reduce energy usage with little to no loss of lifestyle comforts. But the bulb bans persistently promote protest, and bring out the curmudgeons
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MIT Plan to Slash Energy Consumption on Campus Could Save $50 Million
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is partnering with
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That Incandescent Lightbulb Over Your Head Really Does Give You Bright Ideas
Michelle Bachmann is going to love this: the glowing incandescent lightbulb over your head really does make you have bright ideas. Livescience reports on a study by social psychologist Michael Slepian at Tufts
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When You Move, Do You Take Your CFLs With You?
Image via: Greenpeace UK on Flickr.com Moving isn't necessarily the most environmentally-friendly activity. Granted, moving from a sprawling house in the suburbs into a smaller, more efficient home in the city can be a step in the right direction, there
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The L Prize: A New Look at an Old Bulb
These days with CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs), and LEDs (light emitting diodes) and everything else, it seems hard (or maybe just taboo) to remember a time when we used something as inefficient as the standard
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Fight the Euro Ban on Frosted Incandescents with the Euro Condom
The European Union is banning frosted incandescents because they are the most inefficient, and possibly because the light from a clear bulb is really harsh and the change might encourage people to buy frosted compact fluorescents.
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Last Incandescent Bulb Slips out of Grand Central Terminal
The last of four thousand incandescent bulbs were changed to compact fluorescents at Grand Central Terminal in New York yesterday, which will save an estimated US$ 200,000 per year in electricity charges and reduce the amount of CO2 and
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Do CFLs Increase Greenhouse Gases? No.
John Lorinc writes
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Ban Against Incandescent Bulbs: Argentina Joins
In the midst of the end-of-year-holiday-rush the Argentine Senate gave the country a good Christmas present: it approved a law to ban incandescent light bulbs. The rule establishes that from December 31, 2010, the
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Worldchanging Looks Back at 2008, Tao of Change Hosts first Carnival of 2009, OzoLife Gets Cosy with Organic Leggings, and More
Good Clean Tech: Britain Phases Out 100W Incandescent Bulbs by Mariella Moon "In just a few weeks' time, the British would see the next step of a voluntary withdrawal of incandescent lights by companies in the country... The switch to compact
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GE Quietly Folds on High Efficiency Incandescent
Old Thomas Alva was no slouch with the elbows in the corners when it came to patent battles or discrediting competitors, and neither are his successors at General Electric. While we generally admire the company, we were not impressed with their
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Iconic Boston Building Gets an LED Make-Over
We talk a lot about the breakthroughs in LED lighting. Well, take note that the new technology is getting put to good use.
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Battleground Earth Lightbulb Game
Sitting at your desk bored at work? Scanning TH for the 15th time today while waiting for your TPS report to print out? Heres something you and the whole office gang can get into - the Battleground Earth Lightbulb Game. Its
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FrogLight LED Bulb Goes in Standard Socket
Of course, one of the benefits of LEDs is that they last so long that they can be built right into the fixtures or even the fabric of the building. But people own lamps already, and Frog Design "realized the easiest way to create acceptance was to
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Real Simple's Top Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
We all know that compact fluorescent bulbs will save you money and energy, but they continue to get a bad rap for the unflattering light they throw—despite the leaps and bounds the CFL industry has made in quality. Here to the rescue are the editors
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Big LED Breakthrough at Purdue University Could Change the World
Update: Breakthrough: Regular Light Bulb Made Super-Efficient with Laser (!) Better, Cheaper LEDs The incandescent lightbulb that wastes 90% of the electricity as heat is dying, we all know that. But a new breakthrough in solid state lighting might also
