What kind of lightbulbs do you use?

What really bothers me about is that the video at no point mentioned that incandescent are banned in the EU since 2008. And btw, LED bulbs were available back then already.

I live in a developing country ... and whenever people see incandescent most would be shocked. No one, even the poorest who lives on a budget of less than $3 a day, uses incandescent anymore. Worst would be fluorescent, most are using LED. What the hell America.

The incandescent bulb in Asia are usually still being sold and used by farmer as heaters for hen and incubator for eggs.

As they say, it's expensive to be poor

Long story short: Buy LEDs and save money over time.

"The race for efficiency really heated up." This is so ironic because more efficient lights create less heat.

Wait I’m confused at 5:01 44% fluorescent 14% LED 6% incandescent So where’s the remaining 36%? Candles? Phone flashlights?

Who doesn't use LEDs or fluorescent in 2019?? Here in Italy incandescent lights are so rare...

In India, Government was providing LED bulbs for 80 RS that is almost $1

A thing to note is that LEDS are also incredibly adaptable in form factor. There's a bajillion ways to arrange those diodes. So much so that there are LEDs which mimic the old Edison filament bulbs using tiny strings of LEDs. They look amazing

Life Hack! you can buy LED bulbs at "Dollar Tree" for $1. My whole house is LED now, also you can buy them online, even less then $1. At this point there is no issue because the cheap LED bulbs are basically the same price as incandescent and getting cheaper, and the bulbs last 5 times as long and 5 times cheaper energy cost, its not the end of the world, people are naturally converting to LED without needing to force them.

Speaking on a personal basis, I can state that our household (in the UK) started switching over to high efficiency lamps during the 1990s. Because these lamps tend to last for a very long time, we have accrued a box full of spares. The spare lamps had been in a box for so long that I had forgotten that they were there, and had needlessly purchased a replacement in 2018 when one had failed.

Bulbs? I am from Serbia (European country, less developed than US, average salaries around 400-450$), and i installed LED light stripes to whole house. Investment cost around 100$, and after 3 year not the one light point died (or how you call them). Everyone of thousands of them work until now. Electrical bill is lower, light in house is lot better. I even convince my family to do same in their house, and they are very pleased with result. Bulbs are past. LED lights stripes are future. Maybe i will install new one. I seen many great ideas what I could do with them on YT.

Ive been working with LEDs for past 7 years, They Last 2+ times more than the rivals, its worth paying 2 or 3 times the price. Its super cheap these days

As a student, I swap out the bulbs in the place I stay, if I have to pay for power, with LEDs, and swap them again when I leave, they’ll last around 10years, no way imma let my land lord keep em.

2:30 don’t screw it by the glass. It may break. Screw it by the base of the bulb instead.

There are warmer CFLs that are more incandescent. I appreciated the spectral distribution curves and loved it was more technical but also should've mentioned CRI and color temperature. Also most LEDs don't get a warmer color as you dim as an incandescent bulb would.

Who cares what orange man says, just buy LED lights and you’ll be happy

5:01 Is the other 36% still using candle light? This seems like a bigger issue to me...

To me regulations do not matter, I will choose a more efficient and cheaper to run source of light, I used to use CFL and now I use LED, 100% of my house is LED lit.

when she said "a decade ago" i thought the 90's but then i felt old cuz a decade ago were the 2000's

Would like to see more research on the psychological/physiological effects of exposure to the limited wavelengths these new bulbs produce.

I only use high pressure sodium lamps in my house. So yellow

I’m in Australia and an electrician called us and asked if we wanted to swap our lights to LED for free. They swapped em, no money paid. Pretty sure it was a government program. America step up.

Good story, but misguided on LEDs being too expensive for poor people. Here in California, one can buy high quality CRI > 90 LEDs at the 99 Cent Store or Dollar Tree. Our electric company, So Cal Edison subsidizes these (says right on the box). I've tested them against my $17 Costco bulbs (no joke), and the light quality is just the same.

One thing I like Is that they've gotten energy efficient enough to handle them whilst on without being burned. Can remember you couldn't do that several years back.

One thing that's worth noting is that not all LED bulbs have a high CRI. However, most of the bulbs you'll find in stores nowadays have pretty good CRI, and you can easily look for really good ones if you need that, since most have it printed on the side of the box.

As a lighting engineer, this video oversimplifies some things about lighting technology, especially the lighting spectra. Just in the past 2 or so years, we have been able to make LEDs that come quite close to the spectrum of sunlight (e.g. Nichia Optisolis, Bridgelux Thrive, Seoul Semiconductor Sunlike-although none are widely available in finished products yet), much closer than the typical "blue spike" spectrum shown in the video. We are also able to cut down blue for evening applications (e.g. in my product, Bedtime Bulb) to reduce circadian rhythm disruption from blue light. Nevertheless, this video is very helpful for understanding the context of the rapid shift toward LED, and the rollback of the "incandescent ban."

Here in the UK if you go to a discount store you can get a 1400 lumen / 15w LED bulb for £2.99

Just stumbled across this channel very entertaining and informative thank you!!! ( just subscribed )☺️

One of the great options with LEDs is that you can buy them in strips for lighting in lines rather than point sources. This works great for kitchens, shops, and even under counter and shelf lighting. It giver a nice source of almost omnidirectional light, and is great for standalone solar lications where energy efficiency is important. I know this probably sounds like an ad, but we tried a few strips here, and they really helped. I'm going to try them in every room.

Wait a minute. Incandescent bulbs are cheaper ? On Amazon a 24 pack of Sylvania 60w equivalent LED costs $23. A 16 pack of Amazon basic 60w incandescent bulbs costs $24.

100% LED throughout my home. Every lamp, even the ceiling fan.7

I remember being in high school math class and graphing trends of energy use versus upfront cost of light bulbs. The other option was halogen instead of LED. We compared incandescent, CFL, and halogen. LED existed, but it was very expensive.

Learn a lot from this, thanks

I like LEDs They dont heat up my room (Australian here)

Although almost all of the lights in my home have been replaced by CFLs or LEDs, I still keep and use some incandescent light bulbs. They're warm, the color is pleasing, especially suitable for reading in cold winter days. And its color rendering index is unbeatable. Incandescent lights will always be with us, for they still have some special use cases, but they won't be mainstream any more. We really don't need to worry too much about what kind of light bulbs we use, for keeping the lights off when you're away makes a bigger difference. 🤔

4:35 quite misleading. LEDs can be chosen to be narrow, cheap LEDs for lighting are terrible leaning into bluish light, worse than a CFL.

If you live in a part of the country where it is below freezing, an incandescent bulb is a really good source of heat. It is expensive heat compared to natural gas heating, but it does add heat to the house. In the winter when the temperatures would drop to sub-zero levels (below 0 F, -18C) my grandmother used to put a lit 100 Watt light bulb under her car's hood to heat up the engine and a large blanket over the front grill to keep the heat from flowing out the front, and it worked, it kept the engine warm so it had no problem starting in the morning (now we have synthetic oil to avoid that problem). If you have areas of the house that have a light that gets turned on, then off a few seconds later (like a closet), then a simple incandescent bulb is all you really need. If you have an OVEN, and it has a light in it, you need to use an incandescent bulb there as anything else will melt in the heat. But generally, in almost every spot in the house, it better put an LED lamp there to save on electricity costs.

Can you stop for a moment and applaud her excellent voice and explanation skills. 🙌👌

We have coloured Philips Hue throughout the house. They are brilliant!

I was in the lighting game for several years back in the late 1990’s, and yes - LEDs are the best answer nowadays. Like CFL lamps though, we ought to consider the full life cycle costs. The end-to-end materials and fabrication costs and energy footprint are important.

When I bought my house 13 years ago, I ran out and purchased CFLs and replaced every light in the house. Worst decision I ever made! The quality of the light was horrible! The big problem was the constant flicker. I have eyesight problems and I found the CFLs to be impossible to read with and found the light tiring (they bothered my nystagmus). Within a year, at least half of them had been disposed of and I swore I would never use anything but incandescents again. With LED lights, I have taken a more cautious approach. I find them glaring, even in the warm white that I usually buy. There is a noticeable flicker, but not nearly as bad as the CFL bulbs. I have about 85% of my lights replaced with LEDs now, and the other 15% may never be replaced. Most if not all of them are in places where I care about the quality of the light. This includes my bedside reading lights (used around 30 minutes per day), the chandelier in my dining room (used probably 2 hours a week), my bathroom lights (it is hard to shave with the flicker), and my Christmas lights (used 5 hours a day, for three weeks each year). None of the lights that I intend to keep incandescent are used heavily, most are low wattage and I am happy that President Trump gave me the option of deciding what is is the best for me. Oh, and here in Ohio the worst use for LED lights is in stop lights! The LEDs don't melt the ice and snow so the stop light is often not visible! The best use for LED lights: closets! They are less likely to start a fire, but as little as closet lights get turned on, you will never save money here!

Thanks for reminding me to buy a lightbulb

"There are incandescent, fluorescent, LED... It's a lot" Actually no, basically are just these 3

If it wasn’t a ban, and people could still have them if they wanted, what’s the problem? What would the paper really achieve

Nicely informative, thank you.

The price factor argument is wrong. If you go to Walmart a 4 pack of led 60 watt equivalents are about 1$ a 4 pack of incandescent 60 watt bulbs are almost 4$.

“There are incandescent, fluorescents, LEDs, it’s a lot...” I counted 3, that’s manageable

We've recently made the swtich from halogen to CFLs in our studio. They're great! They produce more light (at 5600K), produce significantly less heat (if any at all), use a lot less power, and have 20 times the life (5000 hours MTBF). Pretty amazing. Thanks for this video.

In Australia the state governments subsidised the replacement of incandescent bulbs with energy saving ones. They had energy companies visit your home to do the replacements with the best suited bulbs.

Wait, America still uses incandescent??

What the hell America. What the hell. It's almost 2020 and you have to educate people about the advantages of LEDs? And you have people chanting in favour of the incandescents? It's a fu**ing antiquated waste of energy.

But nobody stopped to consider the health implications of some of these newer Technologies. For people like me with chronic migraines fluorescent light bulbs are an incredible trigger I cannot be around them

Were the manufacturing processes taken into account? And the bi-products of those processes?

Jesus. Never screw in a CFL like that!

i need to say that, incandescent lamp is more romantic in café XD

One thing left out is that many municipalities or utility districts may offer rebates for buying LED bulbs. My local utility offered a decent rebate on our electric bill for replacing each fixture.

i like the way "all sides" of the bulb are presented,,,so i subbed!

Wait what, the USA still sells incandescent lightbulbs? It has been forbidden in Brazil since ... well I can't remember, even the poorest uses CFL lightbulbs, it's rare to see incandescent lightbulbs, people really care about having low energy bills, or bright if they are stealing energy...

lol i am from india and have never seen incandescent bulbs for a long time now

I would like to add that you can now purchase CFL bulbs that are much closer to 6500 Kelvin which is more = to sunlight. IOW warmer lighting.

I worked with a company that gave free energy upgrades to low income communities in the Bay Area, it included installing free LED lightbulbs along with educating the homeowners about little things they can do to save water and energy in their daily lives, all for free! The best job i've ever had!

It amazes me how people even in the end of 2019 still don't understand that CFL phosphors have actually been able to be further engineered to produce more color types. She was using a cooler CCT CFL and criticizing its 3500+K color temperature as if all CFLs looked like that. BS. Even in the past, phosphors were developed to allow for CFLs to put out soft white light much like an incandescent bulb

I'm from Canada and pretty much the only time I ever see incandescent bulbs anymore is for a specific asthetic. To look artsy with shaped filamants in restaurants and homes, that kinda thing. It's rediculous that LEDs still aren't everywhere, the technology has been around for decades...

Feels like this was made 10 years ago. In Europe this isn't a discussion anymore, and CFLs aren't used anymore, and incandescents were banned some years ago.

The heat from incandescent is not "waste" if you need to heat your home anyway.

Another advantage of LED bulbs over incandescent bulbs is that you need to spend more money on electricity for extra air conditioning to overcome the extra heat produced by the old fashioned kind.

5:00 44+14+6 = 64 not 100... did i miss something?

While there is a total focus on the issue of "efficiency" in this video, nothing is mentioned about what medical research is revealing about low frequency lighting (380-440nm) being linked to irreversible retinal damage, macular degeneration, and after several years of exposure, certain kinds of cancer. Just a little oversight.

I haven't bought an incandescent bulb since 1999. Sadly I still have a few halogen bulbs left in my kitchen but I live in Scotland so the additional heat in winter doesn't go to waste and it's light most of the time in the summer

Yea I really like having over 11 different options of toothpaste when I shop. Make me feel powerful.

if you guys just looked around you find out the Dollar Tree sold LED light bulbs now don't tell me that's not cheap it's literally a dollar

My local power company subsidizes leds at Walmart, I can some times find them on sale for $1 for 4

I got some LEDs from the pound shop. I wonder how long they will last? I also have lots of the incandescent strip lights under kitchen cabinets and in the bathroom but I don't know what to replace them with.

i use led everywhere, but have some old lightbulbs lying around to screw into my desklamp if i want to take nice pictures since in my experience leds still usually dont outperform incandescent bulbs another benefit is that u can point incandescent bulbs at ur body and u get a nice warm spot similar to outdoor infrared heaters

America should be offering free replacements of incandescents like some Australian states are doing

what is the polarizer like device used to check the spectrum of the bulbs ?

I recently switched to LED bulbs and I find them to be far superior to incandescent and CFL bulbs. I can't imagine why anyone would want anything else.

The market will go with LED's so let's just relax everyone.

Now, how much extra energy do those smart lights use? I mean, they are always connected.

I was a lighting engineer. LEDs that last forever where developed 30 years ago. The industry soon realised this technology would render their industry redundant in a few short years, so it seems they have removed this technology from the market.

Great video

Doesn’t even mention how LED light bulbs come in two frequencies, 30 and 60 hz. 30 gives people headaches

How many chiropractors does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but it takes six visits.

I was an early adopter of CFL and later LED. I have Incandescents in my Glitter Lamps *only*. 15w in each one.

Nice touch on 4:17 !

I miss incandescent bulbs. Better color of light produced regardless of price comparison.

There's going to be a time when we look back on incandescent bulbs like the way we look back on candles. They look cool but they really aren't very good at the job.

One can still buy incandescent in EU, it's just that they're not popular anymore, since only small shops sell them "for industrial lighting only". Reality is that led and fluorescent are way more expensive initially, though in the long run are definitely cheaper because of the lower energy they require.

Really liked it.

I absolutely adore videos like this.

At 5:01 I think there’s a problem with your graph : it adds up only to 64% : what do the leftover 36% represent? Good video otherwise!

The problem I'm facing are all the old first gen LED bulbs I have around my house. They don't work well with dimmers, have a terrible CRI and light distribution patterns, yet they just refuse to burn out. I'm anxious to replace them with some nice modern warm glow dimmable LEDs that got incredibly cheap lately, but can't convince myself to throw the old ones away. CFLs were advertised to have a similarly ridiculous long usage life, yet almost all them have failed over 10 years or so, not the case with LEDs.

most led bulbs(my sample size is small, but still) I had died really quickly in comparison to the incandescent ones. I don’t mind paying a little more for one but I don’t want to change them twice as often

Didn’t even know you could still buy those old incandescent lights, USA move with the times..

You know, I just figured out that lightbulbs flash on and off, or at least as I saw it with the slow-mo on my phone.

Draper point is the temp that the tungsten filament can start glowing

Incandescents have one good use: as heaters for reducing relative humidity for storage of welding rod, in repurposed old refrigerators. You disable the light switch by the door latch, and you use higher rated bulb than OEM, like 40-60 watt. If you ever walk through lighting display area of large home-supply center, you'll immediately sense the infrared heating. Unless you're little-donnie.