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2. Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs - Wikipedia

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   Announced in 2011 China has banned imports and sales of certain incandescent light bulbs since October 2012 to encourage the use of alternative lighting sources such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with a 5-year plan of phasing-out incandescent light bulbs over 100 watts starting 1 October 2012, and gradually extend the ban to those over 15 ...

3. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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   An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb that is either evacuated or filled with inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation. Electric current is supplied to the filament by terminals or wires ...

4. PSA: It's Time to Remove These Banned Items from Your Home - AOL

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   Incandescent Light Bulbs. ... There are two banned ingredients you should definitely steer clear of: chlorthal-dimethyl and dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA or Dacthal) as they can harm ...

5. United States lighting energy policy - Wikipedia

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   This set up performance standards and the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs in order to require the use of more efficient fluorescent lighting. EISA 2007 is an effort to increase lighting efficiency by 25-30%. Opposition to EISA 2007 is demonstrated by the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act and the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act.

6. Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under ...

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   Only roughly 5% of the energy used by an incandescent bulb produces light; the remaining 95% or so is lost as heat. This is why you let an incandescent bulb cool off before unscrewing it.

7. What you need to know about the incandescent light bulb ban - AOL

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   America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

8. Orders of magnitude (illuminance) - Wikipedia

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   Starlight clear moonless night sky ... Frosted incandescent light bulb [5] [6 ... 600 kcd/m 2: Solar disk at horizon [5] 10 7: 7 Mcd/m 2: Filament of a clear ...

9. Marvin Pipkin - Wikipedia

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   Clear transparent incandescent lamps give off a sharp light, which is unpleasant to many people, and also makes it hard to see objects close to the lamp. In 1920, General Electric developed a 30 watt light bulb that had outside etching as a frosting effect.