A federal rule that took effect on Tuesday will largely consign one of the world's great inventions — the incandescent light bulb — to the technological dustbin.
While LEDs have advantages over Thomas Edison's revolutionary design, they haven't completely snuffed out the conventional bulb. Some consumers, like Tom Scocca, an editor who has written about LEDs, argue that the energy-efficient fixtures can't replace incandescent lights because they tend to lose their color and brightness over the years and aren't quite compatible with dimmer switches.
"There is a world, almost within reach, in which LED lighting could be aesthetically fabulous," Scocca wrote in anFormer President Donald Trump, among others, famously criticized LEDs."The bulb that we're being forced to use, number one, to me, most importantly, I always look orange," heStill, usage of LEDs is on the rise. The number of households using LEDs as their main lighting source increased from 4% in 2015 to 47% in 2020,The market for LEDs in the U.S.
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