Death of the light bulb

[quantum]

So what are your thoughts on the phasing out of the incandescent light bulb?  One of histories most important inventions is withering away in favor of higher energy efficiency.

[pianistimo]

they're blinding anyways.  good for the energy saving wattage bulbs.  i'm in the process of getting lamp shades - because i like darker dining rooms.  my husband, on the other hand, reads a lot - so if it is in a reading area - bring on the light.  i can't fall asleep in our bedroom due to too much wattage.  my husband also had installed an inset reading light over the bedroom bathroom toilet.  i never go in there.  i feel like it's a sort of spotlight. 

[Bob]

my husband also had installed an inset reading light over the bedroom bathroom toilet. i never go in there. i feel like it's a sort of spotlight.

The jazz band and backup singers probably don't help either.

[prometheus]

They will already be banned in Australia and the Netherlands. Other countries will follow.

[pianolearner]

They will already be banned in Australia and the Netherlands. Other countries will follow.

Idiot's, all of them.

[prometheus]

Huh?

[pianolearner]

Huh....Huh?

[pianolearner]

Which country will be the 1st to ban electric ovens? 

Perhaps they will make it illegal to cook between 10am - 4pm...That will save this planet from certain doom.

[timothy42b]

Idiot's, all of them.

True.  In some settings they save energy, in others they do not.  There are lots of places where the incandescent is safer.  An absolute ban is dumb, a campaign to get us to use more of them where appropriate is smart. 

[jlh]

i can't fall asleep in our bedroom due to too much wattage. 

An idea: turn the lights out when you try to sleep... 

[ramseytheii]

So what are your thoughts on the phasing out of the incandescent light bulb?  One of histories most important inventions is withering away in favor of higher energy efficiency.

Well, nothing lasts forever.  Busoni pointed out somewhere, (I think it was Busoni) that though the lightbulb was a stroke of innovative genius, nowadays any child experimenting with electricty can reproduce the same thing.  He believed in a sort of hereditary creativity on a cultural scale, that the improvements of the past are absorbed into genes of future generations, and they then improve on those.

Walter Ramsey

[pianolearner]

Well, nothing lasts forever.  Busoni pointed out somewhere, (I think it was Busoni) that though the lightbulb was a stroke of innovative genius, nowadays any child experimenting with electricty can reproduce the same thing.  He believed in a sort of hereditary creativity on a cultural scale, that the improvements of the past are absorbed into genes of future generations, and they then improve on those.

Walter Ramsey

Maybe electric lighting but not the electric lightbulb as we know it. That took around 50 years.