Lights Out

Starting March 1, Ireland will become the first country to ban incandescent light bulbs. Australia and the Philippines will also soon ban the bulbs.

From Popsci.com...

Stores in Ireland will no longer carry the century-old technology, which converts only between 5 and 10 percent of electricity into light, losing the rest as radiant heat. (Compare this with the 40 percent efficiency of compact fluorescent bulbs.) In its place, hardware stores will stock shelves with compact fluorescents, halogens and LEDs.

We've been using compact fluorescent bulbs for awhile and although they are more energy efficient I'm not a fan of them. They take awhile to light up to full brightness, you can't really use dimmer switches with them, the light is kind of bluish, and since the bulbs have mercury in them properly disposing of them is a bit of a hassle.

In any event, we're going to stick with them and I read that the technology is improving to deal with the shortcomings.

We'll see.