It’s Official: Stores Can No Longer Sell Most Incandescent Lights
www.nytimes.com
New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect, relegating Edison’s glowing orbs to the history books.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
    28·
    1 year ago

    I just found out that my mother has 6 or 7 gigantic moving boxes full of incandescent bulbs in her self storage container.

    She tells me they will be needed once the led bulb conspiracy fails. And that they will be worth a lot of money, enough to pay for her retirement.

    I can’t even

    • can
      11·
      1 year ago

      Wow, I’m sorry. What are her thoughts on flatscreens?

    • mrbubblesort@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      “Oh, is that so mom? In that case I’d be happy to take over that pesky 401k from you. It must be so annoying managing it anyways now that you have the bulbs, right?”

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      51·
      1 year ago

      Meanwhile, I occasionally see boxes of slightly used bulbs on the curb as people upgrade