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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

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[–] raptir@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you still have a fridge or oven that takes incandescent bulbs, isn't it better to replace the bulb than the fridge? If the point is minimal environmental impact then I think that makes sense.

[–] Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well sure but you could just replace it with an LED bulb...

Edit: missed the word oven. My question is just for fridges

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think you can put an LED bulb in an oven, well I mean I guess you could try but good luck with that, I don't imagine it would last very long at all.

You can put an LED bulb in a fridge though, I put LEDs in mine. I don't really need to worry that much about my oven though because it's a small oven and doesn't have a light in there to begin with.

[–] ober9000@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I mean why would you force LEDs for ovens in the first place. The place they are in is supposed to get hot. And that's what the ineffeciency in incandescent light bulbs normally is. They get hot. Doesn't seam like an issue that they make the place that's supposed to get hot hot.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

That's true, but that's also still a lot of incandescent light bulbs. I guess you have to compromise somewhere, for now at least.