The day has finally come. A new rule governing light bulbs has been officially posted in the Federal Register. 75 days from now, the standard for household lightbulbs will be raised to 45 lumens per watt.
That means for a standard lightbulb to be legally sold in the US, every watt of electricity the lightbulb consumes needs to generate the light equivalent of 45 candles.
But now, I’m pretty sure nobody will care. Because whereas the early hi-tech bulbs were those curly things that actually had to warm up, the new LEDs can light up your house like a Walmart. I have a work lamp in the garage that could probably light up the Space Needle, and before someone says, well, you’re lucky to be able to afford all that – these lights use about 1/12th of the energy of the incandescents they replaced, and they last so long they’re almost free. Or better than free. I saw one calculation that replacing a filament bulb with an LED is like finding $150 on the sidewalk.
However, as much as I love this technology, I actually don’t think people should be forced to buy them. In a free country, if you want to burn your money, you should be allowed to.
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