That’s not what anyone is saying.
It’s obvious that your heating bill might increase a measurable amount if you switch from incandescent to CFLs, just not more than the savings in energy usage by the CFLs themselves.
A room heater will be a lot more efficient than counting on the waste heat from CRT monitors or incandescent bulbs.
Hardly necessary.
LED bulbs are better than CFL’s in so many ways, so as soon as the price becomes competitive, people will just buy them instead. The marketplace will take care of ‘banning’ them. Just like iceboxes were ‘banned’ by refrigerators, typewriters by computer word processors, etc.
The efficiency of electricity to heat would be exactly the same. Now a space heater may be able to direct the heat towards the person better.
As I mentioned in one of the other CFL threads, I plan to replace the incandescent bulb that keeps my washer from freezing with a halogen. They still put out quite a bit of heat.
As for position, most of my light fixtures have the bulbs horizontal. I do have a base down work light with a CFL. All the bulbs in it have gotten broken before long. Please don’t report me to the EPA. Note, I have a bunch of white LED"s I plan to make a new work light with.
LEDs make great worklights. white light and no heat, so you can have light and not get burnt.
Speaking of heat-emitting light bulbs, many municipalities replacing outdoor bulbs such as those in stop lights with energy-efficient LEDs have run into unintended consequences. Namely, the old hot bulbs used to melt off snow and ice accumulations from the fixtures. The new LED bulbs let the snow accumulate and obscure the light. New York Times article.
That is interesting, The current use of LED’s is almost exclusively a directly from retrofitting of use of IC and florescent tubes, traffic lights are one such example, as are LED lights made to replace the warehouse style lighting.
But LED’s really are a different technology that really needs to be redesigned around it, not shoehorned into something that it is replacing. The simple answer would be something like to include a temperature sensitive heater or a brightness sensor connected to a heater.
But since LED’s can be highly directional, perhaps a redesign of the entire traffic light is needed. Some materials that don’t let snow and ice stick, perhaps angled downwards like a ice cream cone. I don’t know, but it’s time to start thinking about it and coming up with new designs.