Incandescent light bulbs may put out a warmer-looking, more familiar type of light than LEDs or compact fluorescents, but they're far less efficient – the majority of the energy they use is wasted, ...

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More than a hundred years old, the incandescent light bulb produces a soft, beautiful glow but 90 percent of the energy it produces escapes as heat. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Incandescent bulbs have just stepped into the 21st century. Energy regulations have limited the old traditional light bulb in recent years because of its inefficiencies – so much of the energy used to ...

As the evenings grow longer and darker, many of us rely more on artificial lighting to create a warm, cosy glow. But using lights more often can shorten the lifespan of your bulbs — and when it’s time ...

Not so fast...incandescent bulbs could soon become more efficient thanks to nanotechnology. Mike Kemp/Rubberball/Corbis It was a dark end for a common household object: In 2007, the United States ...

An incandescent lighting device that reuses some of the infrared light it emits could be as efficient as an LED light but contribute less to carbon emissions. Lighting accounts for about 20 per cent ...

REVEND RECYCLING LIMITED, a UK corporation, announces today the launch of an innovative reverse vending recycling machine for the collection and recycling of domestic light bulbs and domestic ...

Product bans can provide a decisive path to environmental change, but when governments resort to mandates, people resist. One form of resistance is to publicize information about unintended ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's why you might want to consider swapping out all your incandescent bulbs for more efficient sources of light. (Getty Images; ...