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Toshiba Ends Incandescent Bulb Production After 120 Years

Posted by Soulskill on from the bright-ideas dept.

angry tapir writes "Toshiba has stopped production of mass-market incandescent light bulbs, putting an end to a 120-year manufacturing history of the products. The company, which is one of Japan's largest makers of lighting products, had planned to halt production next year but brought up the date by a year. It will now focus on more energy efficient products, including LED (light-emitting diode) lights, which contain a handful of white LEDs and draw a fraction of the power of incandescent bulbs."

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  1. Re:so long... by russotto · · Score: 1, Troll

    And now for the entirely predictable posts claiming low power lighting causes cancer, are crap, and cause global warming...

    CFLs are largely crap.

    Then we attack the lights. They are crap, taking too long to turn on, not being bright enough and so forth. Arguments that might have been true 10 years ago but have been entirely overcome unless you insist on buying the cheapest pos you can find.

    They do take too long to turn on, the quality of light still sucks, and many of them still have noticable flicker and buzz. The passage of time has not decreased these arguments; that's just marketing. Put the same old crap in new packaging and claim the new stuff doesn't have any of the problems of the old stuff.

    Oh, yeah, and they largely don't live up to their lifetime claims, which throws the whole cost and energy argument into doubt.

    Then there is people claiming that CFLs give them headaches, if I had more time I'd point out the studies where people are shown to have similar sensitivity as those who sense EM fields.

    I can sense the EM fields coming out of a CFL; if I couldn't, they'd be useless. Headaches caused by flicker (and yes, some of them DO flicker) aren't in the same category as headaches caused by wifi.

  2. Re:so long... by mustrum_ridcully · · Score: 0, Troll

    100-odd years ago people were saying similarly daft things about incandescent bulbs when electric lighting was replacing gas lighting. I wouldn't be surprised if the same people who complain about CFL now will complain about LED bulbs in a few years time and at the same time extol the virtues of CFL.

    The more things change the more they stay the same...

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