The most recent data from the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) shows that today’s home is in a state of energy transformation. Energy-saving light bulbs have grown sharply in ...

Hello, LED lights! Goodbye, CFL bulbs. General Electric announced Monday it will phase out compact florescent light (CFL) bulbs and increase focus on LED lights by the end of the year. Compact ...

How do we safely dispose of CFL bulbs in Summit County? Also, what’s the difference between CFL bulbs and LED bulbs? ” Amy Mastin, Silverthorne In this age we live in of being bombarded with ...

Live longer by quitting smoking, drinking moderately, exercising regularly, limiting stress and eating a bowl of porridge every day. Great advice for a human, but terrible for a compact fluorescent ...

While fluorescent tubes are energy efficient, their materials are crappy for the environment. But under current infrastructure (schools, city buildings, etc), replacing fluorescence with another ...

I find myself in the position of having to fully light a house. It's 2016. Should I go with CFL or LED? I have a number of cans in the ceiling that need bulbs, as well as standard light fixtures in ...

Much ink (cyber and physical alike) has been published over the years, both in EDN and elsewhere, regarding the relative merits and shortcomings of various supposed successors to the venerable ...

Unless there is some big action by conservatives to repeal Bush administration legislation that requires more efficient lighting, many old incandescent bulbs (or lamps) will become unavailable over ...

(NEW YORK) -- The future for Compact Fluorescent Lights is not looking too bright. General Electric announced on Monday that by the end of the year, the company will stop selling CFLs and switch ...

What is power-factor correction (PFC) good for? PFC avoids apparent power being drawn from the power grid. This apparent power becomes larger as the phase shift between current and voltage gets larger ...

I have one of those halogen floor torch lamps, the kind that points directly to the ceiling. It's amazingly bright, at 300W, and pretty much illuminates the entire living and dining area of my condo.