The 75-watt would improve or disappear on Jan. 1, 2013, the 60-watt and 40-watt on the first day of 2014. View full size AP file The new halogen bulbs look like an ordinary household bulb ...

By contrast, most LED bulbs will get you 75 lumens per watt, or more. What is not banned? Not all incandescent light bulbs are banned as part of the new rule, according to the Department of Energy ...

Or a 150-watt incandescent bulb. Or a three-way incandescent light bulb. Or one with a more durable filament for “rough service” applications. There are literally dozens of loopholes.

That’s because traditional incandescent bulbs provide just 15 lumens per watt, according to light bulb manufacturer Philips. By contrast, most LED bulbs will get you 75 lumens per watt, or more.

The beginning of 2013 saw the phasing out of incandescent 75 and 100-watt light bulbs. High efficiency incandescents cost about $1.50 each, compared to 50 cents or so for the old bulbs.

The average incandescent bulb produces 15 lumens per watt, reports Gizmodo ’s Kevin Hurler. LED lighting efficacy ranges up to 150 lumens per watt, per the DOE.

So long 100-watt incandescent light bulbs — California is ordering them off store shelves starting Jan. 1 in an energy-saving move. For now at the Home Depot in Redding, Calif., the bright ...

On January 1, 2014, in keeping with a law passed by Congress in 2007, the old familiar tungsten-filament 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured in the U.S., because ...

You're a very special kind of person -- our kind of person -- if you're the type to drop a good $65 on a single light bulb only because it's made up of 150 warm white LEDs. The 308 lumen (and 594 ...

For example, an LED bulb with comparable brightness to a 60-watt incandescent will typically only draw 8 to 12 watts. Imagine you see two LEDs sitting on the shelf at the store, each of them ...

You can’t just buy a 150-watt incandescent or a three-way bulb — the ban covers any normal bulb that generates less than 45 lumens per watt, which pretty much rules out both incandescent and ...