Title
High Efficiency Devices, CFL Light Bulbs, Caveat Emptor
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
The PERCOLATOR - the PERC Blog
Publisher
Property and Environment Research Center
Abstract
Starting in January, the common incandescent light bulb becomes illegal, well maybe, in most of the United States. (Some recalcitrant states, SC and TX to name two, seem hell bent on reminding the federal government of the long forgotten 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but wasn’t that fight settled a long time ago?) Advocates of this law say that it encourages the use of more energy efficient lighting sources such as CFL and LED lights. It has been noted that a large fraction of the energy consumed by an incandescent light bulb goes to create heat and not light, and that the newer, high tech devices produce an equal amount of light using less energy.
Recommended Citation
McCormick, Robert E., "High Efficiency Devices, CFL Light Bulbs, Caveat Emptor" (2014). Publications. 9.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/economics_pubs/9