Cohousing-L Mailing List: New bulbs -WAS: what do you do with incandescent lightbulbs?

[Anne Fleck (solianna]

I was recently told by my electrician that the "regular" 4 & 8' style
flourescent bulb were being fazed out. Specifically, they are being replaced
by lower-energy use, smaller diameter bulbs. This will mean either stocking
up ahead of time with lots of the "regular" flourescents or coverting all
your fixtures to the new smaller ones. Has anyone else heard about this?
Anne at Jackson Place


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Netherton [mailto:andrewnetherton [at] gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:07 AM
To: Cohousing-L
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ what do you do with incandescent lightbulbs?

I neglected to mention that this question doesn't start and end with
CFL-replaced incandescents.  There are BILLIONS of incandescent bulbs
out there, all of which with a rather short life span.  Any solution
that can be found for replaced incandescents should also be able to be
used by bulbs that are simply at the end of their filament's life.

Andrew

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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