Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: what do you do with incandescent lightbulbs?

[Deborah Mensch (deborahmensch]

Donate them to a local shelter or food bank? You'd have to call around and
see if anyone wanted them.

Or, if you have a group of grade-school-age kids to play with, have some fun
with electricity experiments. It would take a little setup (some sockets,
wiring, switches, resistors, and a battery or other voltage source), but you
can explore current and voltage using the brightness of bulbs wired in
series and/or parallel. These experiments/demonstrations require
incandescent bulbs, because fluorescents don't work well over a variety of
voltages.

Perhaps a local teacher could use them for a similar purpose, or would enjoy
working with you to build up an experimental setup for his/her class.

-Deborah Mensch
Pleasant Hill Cohousing, Pleasant Hill (San Francisco Bay Area), CA

On 1/18/07, Andrew Netherton <andrewnetherton [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> Things are a mite too quiet on the Cohousing-L front, so I'll pose a
> question I've been asking a lot recently elsewhere.
>
> I've been replacing my incandescent lightbulbs in my home (recently
> got an 8-pack of CFLs) but now have the problem of a pile of working
> incandescent bulbs sitting on my workbench.  I don't want to landfill
> them, and I don't want to give them away (where their use would negate
> my replacing them with CFLs).  Are there any ideas out there as to
> what to do with a bunch of mixed-wattage standard-socket incandescent
> light bulbs?
>
> Many thanks,
> Andrew Netherton
> Laurel Creek Commons (gelling nicely!)
> Waterloo, ON, Canada
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