The Truth About the New Light Bulb Lawhttp://shine.yahoo.com/green/truth-ligh ... 00491.htmlOn January 1, 2012 a law phasing out standard 100-watt incandescent bulbs will go into effect. However, it won't be the bulb apocalypse that some detractors have been warning of. In short: the notion that incandescent bulbs will no longer be available is a myth. Nor will you be forced to buy Compact Fluroescent Lightbulbs (CFLs). "You will still be able to buy incandescents," Noah Horowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), told Yahoo! Shine. "The only difference being that the new and improved ones are more efficient."
The approximate equivalents for old standard incandescents are:
40 watts=450 lumens
60 watts = 800 lumens
75 watts = 1100 lumens
100 watts= 1600 lumens
Old incandescents will not be taken off store shelves on January 1, but phased out as they are sold off. The old 75-watt incandescent bulbs will be phased out in 2013 and the 60 and 40-watt bulbs in 2014. Horowitz points out that that new law has spurred innovation: "Without the law, we'd still be stuck with the 125-year-old technology that was so inefficient 90% of the electricity used was wasted as heat."
The NRDC has a simple
light bulb buying guide you can print and bring to the store.
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