We can still buy them in Canada, and smuggle them in across the border.
When my analog tv needs to be replaced, I’ll use the spare in the attic. When that too breaks down, that’s when I’ll spend a few hundred bucks on a digital. But for now, I have no need to spend so much money on a picture which is admittedly better, but has no practical value.
I’m not “replacing” my bulbs either, if what you mean is to take out a perfectly good incandescent bulb just to put a CFL in. But I do buy the CFLs when I see them on sale, and I install them as the incandescents burn out.
use CFLs where you could wait the minute for them to come to brightness and where you will leave them on 30 minutes or more.
for room or stair navigation you can use 40W incandescent bulbs or LED (direct replacements are getting less expensive). clear LED christmas tree strings or ropes make good room navigation, hallway, stair and closet illuminations and are inexpensive now.
Seriously, does anyone know about this?
http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Bake-35230-Oven/dp/B001DI4VN0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294607868&sr=8-1 uses a light bulb
Easy bake ovens just prove how inefficient our light bulbs are
We bought our first one for this Xmas, it used a standard lightbulb.
Ah, yes, Fox and their Friends have been pushing the “Light Bulb Ban” lately…
http://mediamatters.org/research/201101040005
Though, unfortunately, any incandescent bulb that meets the standard probably isn’t much use in an Easy-Bake oven.
Even before the Creepy Crawlers toys were sold (and their edible version, Incredible Edibles), Mattel manufactured the Vac-U-Form , a toy for vacuforming plastic sheets. It used the exact same heater element that the Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker would later on. I know, because I had one, and the Creepy Crawler molds fir perfectly into the Vac-U-Form heating element.
http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/instruct/vac-u-form/vacuform01.html
We switched most of ours to CFLs a couple of years ago. While it does take a few seconds for some of them to get to full intensity, the only place it’s proven to be an issue has been in our outdoor porch lights. There, in the wintertime, it’d take several minutes for them to get much above a candle in brightness. I swapped those back out for incandescent bulbs.
I don’t buy incandescent bulbs anymore, but no way in hell am I going to “replace” (ie, throw away) a perfectly good bulb. I’m replacing the incandescents as they burn out.
We had a VacUForm, too, and I was completely underwhelmed with it. Or possibly the next door neighbor boy had one. The Thingmaker was a heck of a lot more fun, and I had both the Creepy Crawlers and the Fun Flowers molds.
I don’t think it matters. Since the lightbulb in the oven is used for heat rather than light, it should easily qualify for an exemption from the ban. I do not know the specifics, but I’m certain that there are exemptions. For one thing, I can’t imagine using a CFL for light in a conventional oven due to the potential for mercury to contaminate your food.
it depends on what country you are in. sensible regulations allow for uses where only incandescent bulbs are suitable. there are exceptions for low power, high power (where there are not substitutes) and other special situations. appliance bulbs would be such a case.
poor media or fear spreading political groups spread confusion or untruths.
We are also replacing incandescents with CFs, as they burn out, and other than the ones outside, there really isn’t an issue. Actually, the light in the dining room has 9 bulbs in it. That one we did replace the bulbs (the old will be used elsewhere). Instead of 9 bulbs60watts each, we now have 9 bulbs14watts each.
We keep our house pretty cool, but the computer room, where many dark winter evenings are spend, used to be much warmer, between 2 people, 2 computers, 2 CRT monitors and a halogen light. Just switching the 2 monitors to LCD and the light to CF means that I may have to buy a heater for that room. Boo!!
They’re right- my wife and I bought our niece an Easy-Bake oven for Xmas this year- it was purchased from Target on or around Dec 5th, and big as life on the box, it says that it requires a 100 watt incandescent bulb.
“Wrong” isn’t quite the word for a grown man who just bought an Easy Bake oven.
Ontario’s phasing them out too. Wonder where the last bastion of light bulb freedom will be?
One of whats his faces quantranes mentions that “the freedom of heat and light will fade last in a place of heat and sweetness”
My guess is that means Cuba.
How about smuggling light bulbs in from Mexico?