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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.(www.digitaljournal.com)

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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

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They generate lots less heat that an equivalent incandescent bulb. It’s most likely the dirty power problem you’ve described.

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Freeman@lemmy.pub
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They do. But incandescent bulbs don’t have circuitry prone to heating failures. It’s just a filament.

So it’s not an equivalency thing.

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