Next year, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will go into effect, starting with the ban of 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. With them go the Easy-Bake Ovens that have burned your mini treats a 100-watts at a time since 1963. While Hasbro has insisted they will recreate the toy to embrace modern trends, somewhere an inner child weeps for a simpler time. [The Consumerist]
Graeme
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:56 PMThere are ways round the incandescent bulb ban. You can still buy them in Australia and much of Europe where they are often sold as “heat bulbs” rather than “light bulbs”.
lighthouse
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:26 PMhmmm, so that’s what you get from banning certain bulbs!! …
all lights have their advantages including ordinary simple incandescents compared to “efficient” halogen types – it’s not like banning an unsafe product, like lead paint…
besides, people pay for their electricity, of which there is no future shortage
(rather the opposite, from all developments going on, including low-emission renewable/nuclear energy etc!)
Why overall energy savings are not there anyway:
http://ceolas.net/#li171x
with US Dept of Energy references = Under 1% American energy savings
from energy efficiency regulations on incandescent lights
(probably similar in Australia).