The Department of Energy, or DOE, announced Friday that it’s strengthening energy efficiency requirements for light bulbs in U.S. markets, in a move anticipated to save Americans $27 billion on their utility bills over 30 years. The DOE estimates that the new standards will prevent 70 million metric tons of carbon from being emitted over 30 years — equivalent to the annual emissions of 9 million homes.
According to the new rule, light bulbs sold or imported after 2028 must have an efficiency level of at least 120 lumens per watt, almost triple the current minimum standard. Under the new standard, a light bulb as bright as an old-school 60-watt incandescent bulb would require no more than 6.5 watts of electricity.
The federal government has already once strengthened its efficiency standards under the Biden administration. Last year, the classic Edison-style incandescent bulb was almost entirely phased out. (That rule, which set the current efficiency standard of […]
p-lease understand as a result of LED exposure ~~~ cataract surgery is now the most the popular medical procedure in the USA.What’s behind this? WELL lets just say our government does not have our best interests in mind.
Also understand that blue light from LEDs was confirmed to be a human carcinogen in 2018 in the Spanish study of Ambient Light At Night (ALAN), with streetlights alone causing a 50% increase in breast cancer, a 105% increase and prostate cancer, and in a follow-on study an 18% increase in GI and rectal cancers.
More than this, the same mechanism causing this – suppression of melatonin production, and the circadian rhythm, and then the hormone cycle, also leads to failure of tamoxifen and related anticancer treatments making the cancers more lethal.
The intense blue light also oxidizes the tissues of the eye beyond the ability of the body to repair in 10,000 seconds. That is 2 hours 47 minutes. After that no one exposed should have any more exposure for the rest of the day. That is part of the safety basis for the LED lights. And it doesn’t even include the added injury from displays and devices.
The blue light also leads to dramatic increases in macular degeneration leading to blindness.
And the 120 hertz flicker from the lights is devastating to part of the population. No flicker at all should be allowed.
Because we handle capital and expense dollars differently, organizations and people have responded by installing MORE lights, keeping the monthly expense the same. As a result, the energy savings largely overstate the reality. Municipalities have to install more that twice as much light as well because the “throw” of the lights is much less.
And none of this accounts to the massive harm the lights cause to birds, small mammals and insects. It isn’t just the bird flu that is devastating bird populations. It is the blue light and the flicker.
Even more, DOE and other “experts” failed to put together the correlation that with blue light causing cancer that it now appears highly likely that the conversion to fluorescent lighting in he 1980s led to the dramatic rise of breast and prostate cancers. A rise that no one to date has been able to explain. The answer was literally right in our faces the whole time.
Today, the cancer impacts mean that this generation of LED lights will most likely cause the deaths of 10 million Americans before we recognize the problem and recall all of these deadly lights.