The 60W incandescent bulb uses 60 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity every 1,000 hours. At the rate of $0.11 per kWh, it would cost $6.60 to operate the incandescent bulb for 1,000 hours.

Under those same parameters, a 60W incandescent bulb that puts out 880 lumens will cost about $7.50 per year. Multiply that by the total number of bulbs in your home, and you're potentially ...

2014 will see the phasing out of 40W and 60W incandescent light bulbs. This is what you need to know. I’ve been PCMag’s home entertainment expert for over 10 years, covering both TVs and ...

Left: traditional incandescent. Right: compact fluorescent. Mike Watson, the VP of product strategy for Cree LED, says the LED bulb business is booming, and he certainly sees the phase-out of 60W ...

Say goodbye to the 60-watt incandescent bulb. This year manufacturers started phasing out 100w and 75w bulbs. On January 1 it will become illegal to import or manufacture traditional 60w and 40w ...

With a light output of 800 lumens coming from just 9.5W of energy usage, the Cree bulb is a legitimate replacement for 60W incandescent bulbs, and one of the most efficient household LEDs ...

The Sylvania 12-Watt 60W A19 Soft White ... of each bulb after 3,000 hours of life testing, as compared with the brightness of a comparable incandescent. Efficiency: Efficiency is the comparison ...

Back to our story:Turns out that the consumer’s assumption is not valid: that the LED bulb is just another upgrade like the CFL. As noted, folks assumed that anywhere you had the 40W or 60W ...