Then we were all encouraged to abandon them and take up LED bulbs, which initially looked sort of like this:
This took some getting used to, but I did.
But then I was just in the hardware store looking, for the first time in a while, for new bulbs, and found that now the LED bulbs are the same shape as the old incandescent bulbs, just with different insides. They look rather like this:
These are the right ones, right? I'm just trying to catch up here.
The middle ones aren't LEDs, they're compact fluorescent bulbs or CFBs. Totally different tech.
ReplyDeleteThen that's not a picture of what I had, it just looks sort of like it. Which is what I said.
DeleteYou missed a step. Before LED bulbs came along, we were "encouraged" (i.e., mandated by Congress) to buy compact fluorescent bulbs — which in fact is what is pictured second here. Fragile, mecury-vapor-laden fluorescent bulbs, which had (have) to be disposed of only at "authorized" collection sites, and which, if one breaks, the EPA "recommends" you "clean up" by removing all pets and children from the room, opening a window and airing the room out for 10 minutes, turning off any central air system, and avoiding vacuuming, all lest the mercury vapor disperse even further. (But hey, what's a little mercury poisoning compared to saving pennies on electricity?)
ReplyDeleteThen what I had were definitely -not- fluorescent bulbs, because I never heard any of these warnings. They were LEDs that looked a lot like fluorescent bulbs, and I posted a picture of what evidently is a fluorescent bulb because that's all I could find online.
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