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.

  • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t that the worse way for your outcome? Isn’t there a more efficient method that reliably heats without light ?

    • salton@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well 98% of the energy used by an incandescent bulb is given off as Infrared light that you would sense as heat.

      • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Isn’t that a pretty flawed design flaw then. Why not use a heater as a heater rather than a light bulb ? Or like a heat lamp ?

        • salton@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Sometimes you will just introduce more safety issues if you try to overengineer things. In a lot of cases you have to assume that not everything that you want will be easily available and cheap, available and safe will beat some plastic thing ordered from ali express by Walmart.

          • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            No not in the contest of a heater. Think that’s just being silly now. Something we’ve required since the dawn of humanity.

        • ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          As far as I understand, energy is conserved. Light inside a closed box will ultimately turn to heat too.