Electronic ballasts let you dim fluorescents withing certain values, although they're getting better.

Most moving lights and effects used in nightclubs use arc lamps such as HMI or MSR and not halogen. Actually, halogen moving lights are few and expensive.

Inaki

1st comment: I wonder what the nightclub scene will look like due to this. Have you ever tried to use a dimmer on a florescent? Come to think of it, it will be perfect for the club kids!

2nd Comment: I foresee an over abundance of easy bake ovens on E-bay being shipped from Ireland.

Geeum

Now I will smuggle good old fashioned lightbulbs into Ireland and sell them on the black market to fund my quest for global domination...erm...World Peace!

Kevin1a

looks as if all of those suckers are in my high school.
Zing!

apelaw9

its good their getting rid of those bulbs. That'll cut energy to that entire country to a very small percentage just alone in that. We should ban that here but thatll never happen. America the Corporation cant afford to lose those extra dollars.

ImTheKing

Oh noes! Not the lightbulb. So, they banned the world's most perfect invention(next to internet pr0n), great for them.

Jeff_McAwesome

When Bono is outlawed. Only outlaws will have sex with Bono.

Wait. Wat?

Pope John Peeps II

I expect we'll see the rise of the Irish speakeasy, where patrons can bask in the glow of illegal incandescency.

homerjay

@ImTheKing: I'm saying that America the Corporation would likely make plenty of extra dollars if an all-out ban of incandescents took place.

As for me, I'm down to one incandescent in my house that gets regular use (a bedside lamp that the alarm clock flashes on and off in the mornings). Everything else is either CFLs or traditional tube fixtures.

someToast

@someToast: Its not about profit genius. Typical answer. Oh well money money money. Just wait. You'll be one of the last im sure to switch to a smart solution.

ImTheKing

@ImTheKing: "We should ban that here but thatll never happen. America the Corporation cant afford to lose those extra dollars."

Yeah, forcing people to throw away their working lightbulbs to buy more expensive florescents... where's the profit in that?

someToast

I would have no problem switching from incandescent to another form of light bulb if there was one that has the same properties as incandescent. Give me a cheep dimmable bulb that gives off a warm light. I am not a fan of most florescent lights because they are so white I feel like I am at the office or the hospital (in my case they are the same). I still use incandescent bulbs in my living room because I have a x10 type lighting system that works in conjunction with my harmony remote to dim the lights when its time to watch a movie. Until they produce a good alternative I will be sticking with my incandescent bulbs (at least in my dimmable lights)

StonegateGuy

i've mentioned this before in regards to ontario's (canada) upcoming ban on incandescent bulbs:
they need to not ban them, just insanely tax them and use the money to subsidize tax exemptions on florescent bulbs (thus you can still easily use them for dimmers, just have to pay more, but the bulbs in the rest of your house will be cheaper...evens out).

EMoShunz

You can get dimmable fluorescents, but they tend to require proper PWM based dimming, not cheap rheostat dimmers (the latter should be banned - they take a lot of power).

Also, did you know that you can get fluorescent lights in a variety of color temperatures? Pick one with a lower color temperature to get that ghastly yellowish smoker-lives-here wall color... (and get laughed at when you use it for "professional image editing" since a distinctly yellow light screws up color reproduction) or nice daylight spectrum ones.

Worf