I will buy a truckload of old-fashioned light bulbs if they ban incandescents. My issue with halogen and flourescent bulbs? The color, poor quality, and flicker tires and offends my eyes. I would rather write by candlelight.
Use whatever bulb you prefer, but don’t tell me which bulb I must buy. Going green is fine, and I’m on board for the most part, but forcing your ideas on others proves nothing but how unenlightened you really are.
Three cheers for Edison’s incandescents and a ‘BOOO!’ for lawmakers and others who have nothing better to do. ~ N
“Seeing the Light”
by Moira Allen, Editor, http://www.writing-world.com
I don’t often use this space for “advocacy,” but this month I’m going to make an exception. This month, I’m going to take a stand for something that is of rather great importance for writers: Light. Many of you are probably aware that a ban on incandescent light bulbs is scheduled to go into effect in the U.S. in January 2012…What is offered in place of such bulbs is a choice between halogen and “compact fluorescent” bulbs… <<read more>>
Incandescent lights waste so much electricity compared to fluorescent lamps. ^
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