When airports started replacing runway and taxiway lights with LEDs they discovered that they no longer melted the snow that landed on them. The companies that supply the lights have started offering add-on thermostatically controlled heaters.
I think I heard somewhere that Obama is banning incandescent lights so that it will be too dark to see when he orders ATF to come and take away our guns.
“Marge, can you set the oven to cold?”
If she’s a rabid Republican, do you think it would do any good?
This by yabob is the actual answer to the question. See here and many other places for further info:
Some say the oven will bake with fire
Some say with ice
From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to be prepared twice
I think I know enough of cake
To say that for desserts ice
Is also great, and would suffice.
Blame it on a possible whoosh. But I tread lightly on energy issues when Una Perrson is around. 
You are correct about my number (and I did not include the multiplicative effect from the NASCAR fans because the scope becomes too squishy).
lukeinva was wondering out loud about how much energy is used by incandescent light bulbs compared to NASCAR. I would argue that energy consumption by NASCAR would be in the noise (but I couldn’t find a cite for just how much energy is used by incandescent lighting in the US).
BTW, there are still oil-fired power plants in the US, but AFAIK appear to be a dying breed.
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Same thing with stop lights. I remember the first (windy) snowstorm after a lot of lights had been switched over to LED. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, then it clicked that the snow hadn’t melted. Made for an interesting drive to work…and an interesting drive all day, the snow never did melt until the clouds disappeared and the sun hit the lights the next day.
Apparently the same problem occurs with LED traffic lights in cold climates.
Maybe not all incandescent lightbulbs are banned, but the traditional bulb that most Americans think of when they say “incandescent lightbulb” will no longer be readily available.
Did you click on my link? The only difference between the “traditional bulb” and the new halogen bulbs are that the new ones use less energy and cost a little more, for now at least. The halogen bulbs can be dimmed, are instant-on, and provide bright white light just like traditional incandescents.
Yes, very similar, but not the same.
Just what are the differences? The earlier halogens had a different base, clear glass, and smaller. I was just looking at one I have, a 100 watts and G8 base. But it still has 2 contacts and a filament that produces light when heated to incandescence. I think traditional ones are now filled with argon or other inert gas. Edison used a vacuum? I don’t quite understand how a highly reactive gas protects the filament.
Halogen bulbs only have a trace quantity of halogen vapor in them. It causes tungsten which would normally be boiled off the filament and deposited on the inside of the bulb to be redeposited on the filament, as it forms tungsten halides which dissociate again near the filament. See “halogen cycle” description here:
This may be the only successful parodic triolet in history!
I miss the Strange Change Machine™.
Now that was cool.
I’d probably be prouder of that if I knew what a triolet was.
And looking it up, it looks like neither Frost’s original nor my parody is actually a triolet, which seems to be an extremely constrained form.
I had one of those!