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If they use heating at all (and not just AC) and have a thermostat as everyone else it would automatically account for the extra heat and not run the furnace as much. This is also why a blanket ban on incandescent lightbulbs is silly.



A blanket ban on incandescents is not at all silly. Your underlying assumption, that 100% is the peak efficiency for electricity to heat, is false.

Heat pumps.


Fair enough, I haven’t considered that. I would still prefer a tax or something over an all out ban but that’s a different conversation.


why tho? given that there are more efficient ways to produce light and heat and there are drop in replacements for incandescents?

Do you just prefer blackbody spectrums?


Yes on spectrums, I’m also sensitive to flicker and it’s hard to find LEDs that consistently don’t (I understand that it can be done with some circuitry - but then again I could just not use LEDs).


Late to the party, but using low watt incandescent bulbs to stop small compartments from freezing in winter is a classic off grid cabin and camper van trick.




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