Close your eyes and imagine the fluorescent lamp fixtures from your childhood. These lights most likely hummed, flickered, buzzed, and created harsh, unnatural light. If you stood under one of these ...

Spring is on the way for our friends down under. With that in mind [x2Jiggy] built this compact fluorescent grow lamp to help start the seeds for his garden. He used materials that are easy to find, ...

Like the incandescent bulb before it, the compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb is rapidly fading into obscurity as there are fewer and fewer reasons to use them over their LED successors. But there are ...

Wherever possible, Western Michigan University has replaced all screw-type incandescent bulbs ranging from 40 watts up to 300 watts with compact fluorescent lamps. The lamps range from 13 watts to 68 ...

I get that we have to let incandescents go, but the chilly, shrill light of their replacements doesn’t compare. By Pamela Paul New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect ...

VERMONT (WTEN) – As of Feb. 17, Vermont will become the first state to ban the sale of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) bulbs. CFLs use 75% less energy than traditional light bulbs and can last up to ...

Philips Lighting exec Brian Dundon recently explained his company's take on the CFL controversy, telling lighting industry news service EdisonReport that a typical Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) has ...

President Joe Biden’s Energy Department will unveil proposed light-bulb efficiency rules that would effectively phase out compact fluorescent bulbs and move U.S. households decisively toward ...

Fluorescent lightbulbs use less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, but many contain mercury, a neurotoxin that can accumulate in food sources and ultimately in our own tissues. Removing and ...