Over the past couple of decades, the incandescent light bulb has come under fire for its inefficiency to the extent that its use has been banned in some places. People and businesses have been ...

The Dept. of Energy's ban on the sale and manufacture of most incandescent light bulbs took effect on Wednesday more than a decade and a half after such a ban was first proposed.

It can also last far longer than incandescent lightbulbs, with a "useful" life of 30,000 to 50,000 hours or even longer, compared to just 1,000 hours for incandescent light bulbs.

America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly. A rule issued in 2007, rolled back by the Trump administration, and updated last year by ...

You can't buy incandescent light bulbs anymore. With a few exceptions, the bulbs – patented by Thomas Edison in 1880 and a common fixture in American homes for more than a century – have ...

Incandescent bulbs produce light by using electricity to heat a wire filament until it glows. The drawback is that the bulbs use 90% of their energy to produce heat . CFLs use about 80% for heat.

The incandescent light bulb still isn’t dead — but ‘normal’ ones are now truly banned. 45 lumens per watt is now the bar.

Kevin Szmyd became obsessed with incandescent lightbulbs a few months before they were banned. He spent $1,700 to stockpile more than 4,800.

An unprotected incandescent light bulb sparked an apartment fire Wednesday evening just north of The Citadel mall, the Colorado Springs Fire Department announced. The fire started about 6:30 p.m. in ...

Light bulb manufacturers have argued that too rapid a pivot away from incandescent bulbs would damage their bottom line and lead to a glut of stranded inventory — in other words, bulbs already ...

The incandescent bulb also only converts about 1% to 3% of total energy used to power the bulb into visible light, whereas LED and fluorescent light bulbs convert closer to between 75% and 90% of ...