I can't see people lined up to buy those really swell incandescent light bulbs, anymore than I can see people lined up to buy cars with those really swell drum brakes.

So if Trump and Jared and Wilbur Ross have secretly cornered the market in incandescent bulbs, I don't see that their speculation will pay off.

Full disclosure: I own stock in GE, which used to crank out those things hand over fist.

There are so many stories that come up when I Google for this:

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=Jy9kXK_RBYyO5wL9n5GICA&q=light+bulb+factory+closes

One story. It goes on for five pages:

Maybe somebody on DU knows differently, but I believe the US manufacturers have retooled already. Most light bulbs are being made in Mexico, or else in third-world countries for the last 30 years or longer. The US manufacturers saw the future and the switch to energy-efficient bulbs has already taken place. I can still get incandescent bulbs at the Dollar Store or Big Lots, but I don't buy them. Why should I? The energy efficient bulbs last much longer, use less power, and they're cost effective.

three-for-a-dollar.

Maybe bulbs for microwave ovens have to be incandescent. I don't know.

Most of them are the small, low-watt appliance bulbs like refrigerator and oven bulbs. Perhaps future appliance designs will address this but for now we still need the incandescent bulbs.

And almost never burn out...

The microwave light over the stove.

Everything else is LED. He was like Captain Ahab. I got to the point my eyes just glossed over. He was even talking about modifying the microwave.

I don’t know how we ended up on that one.

An LED should help cure that

LED recessed retrofit can ceiling lights in every room.

LED bulbs in bathroom light bars.

Also, T8 fluorescent in garage and basement and workshop, as well as LED shop lights.

There are ZERO incandescent bulbs in my home, and it's so nice not having to buy bulbs. I have not had to change one light bulb since this was done.

Started with our flood lights outside--bulbs that we were changing almost monthly--switching to the LEDs. Haven't had to climb up a ladder to replace them since the install. Slowly, we did the same on the interior lighting.

Incandescent lighting isn't coming back, anymore than King Coal.

Most of my ceilings (except the kitchen) are plaster over rock lath. I found a great master electrician to come in and cut 6 inch holes in the ceiling to accept the recessed cans.The guy amazed me...he could lay out a whole room of these things (6 to 8 lights) with a plumb bob, drill the 6 inch diameter holes through the plaster and rock lath, and have the edge of the hole come within 1/64 inch of a joist. All without cracking the plaster.

I put 4 to 8 of these in each room at $100 per fixture and this included both labor and the cost of the fixture. I love these lights. They are 3000k which is a nice soft yellowish light, like incandescent, and they are fed to a dimmer switch. The soffit in the kitchen used to have floods, which were horrible. Like you stated, they had to be changed every month or 2, and I used to dread going to the store to try to find the same bulb.

First pic is old incandescent flood, second pic is retrofit LED.

I should look into this. Great idea! Thanks for the pics.

So in the kitchen, all that had to be done was to replace the old fixture in the can. It literally takes lass than a minute to do so.

It is only where there were no can lights before that the 6 inch diameter holes have to be drilled.

You won't go wrong by looking into this...I'm not exaggerating when I say it is somewhat life changing. You can get rid of all of your table lamps. The fixtures are sleek and good looking, and they provide better light. No more bulb changing, and a noticeable reduction of your electric bill!

There was something like 25 cans. We also did like 12 display spots and a bunch of pendants.

Iirc, we went from over 2300 watts to a little over 400 watts.

I can’t remember the last time I changed a bulb.


Now they have the disc lights that look like cans but mount to regular junction boxes. I installed a couple in my buddy’s place to replace some flush mount ceiling fixtures. They are a little bit more pricey but still better than cutting the ceiling.

Those are almost always incandescent bulbs. But they usually aren't turned on very much.

I'm just talking about the permanent light fixtures on my walls and ceilings.

it's been so long ago though. I wrote the Resolution for the CA party and it made into a bill and passed. I was really into that. I was intent on selling led bulbs. I found my last 1st generation bulb yesterday even. Incandescent is cheap for the manufacturers and expensive for the consumer and planet.

in MO for example, the utility provided energy efficient power strips and light bulbs to all of its customers (I jumped on) and brought a lot of them. Other energy saving items such as appliances, etc. were also offered. Very reasonable.

The utility's rationale in doing this was that if they could get enough of these energy saving devices out there among its customers, enough energy would be saved that additional power plants wouldn't have to be built in MO. Smart, we all save!

Again, the republicans trying to buck market trends and ensure that their monopoly owning buddies retain their businesses longer, and ignore the consequences of bad energy policies and their impact on the environment and consumers' wallets.

Again, just points out a pathetic way behind the times thinking that these idiotic and very obviously slanted towards their rich buddies bias. Nothing about their voters, nothing about the environment, nothing about a
sustainable economy and in fact, totally fact free in determination of appropriate solutions to just about any problem/issue (other than 'tax cut'!).

No one is going to revive those wonderful old incandescent light bulbs.

Image that Trump decided that analog TV broadcasting was a great idea. Can you think of anyone who would go back to watching analog TV?

Going back to the old ones.