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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.
(www.digitaljournal.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The article had an estimate from the DoE. Idk, be mad about it if you want. LED bulbs aren't perfect but what is.
"As the rules reinforce existing market changes, the Energy Department believes that U.S. consumers can save almost $3 billion annually on their utility bills. Similarly, it projects that the rules could cut carbon emissions by 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years."
I can't find such a study, and it seems extremely unlikely to me that any such study was performed recently. The original law was passed in 2007, and then the regulations were in political limbo for more than a decade.
My base hypotheses here, subject to easy refutation by any real evidence, are that: