In December 2022, the President Joe Biden's administration proposed a new rule that, if enacted, would nearly triple the current minimum light bulb efficiency level of 45 lumens per watt to over 120 ...

Q: The kitchen of my 1987 house has fluorescent tubes in the ceiling, which is dropped down 5½ inches so acrylic panels covering the lights look like part of the ceiling. I hate the quality of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Even though the transition to LED lighting is well under way, there are lots of TV stations that ...

Families and businesses in Hawaii, Colorado, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Maine will save $2 billion in utility bills by 2050 and have reduced risk of mercury exposure, thanks to new laws that phase out ...

When you start browsing to find the best smart bulbs for your house, you’ll see that most of them are LED bulbs. To a newcomer, terms like “LED” can get a little confusing. Sure, LED bulbs are ...

Hawaii has joined nine states in banning the sale of fluorescent light bulbs. The legislation took full effect Jan. 1, 2026, under the Hawaii Clean Lighting Standards Act, which passed in 2023. The ...

I’m quite often approached by people holding pictures of the sort of fluorescent lights sold at DIY stores as task lighting, and asked if they’re any good for film and TV work. The answer is, well, ...

This is going to be anathema to many people out there, but we have a lot of wiring that goes near, and in many cases, directly across fluorescent lights (long story how it came about). Some goes to a ...

In a common kind of fluorescent tube, a high voltage tears some electrons away from mercury vapor atoms—it's a brief pulse, so that mostly certain electrons and their band of transition energies are ...