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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those with 2700 K are closest to incandescent bulbs ... The Cree Lighting 60W 4Flow Replacement A19 A Better LED Bulb is part of the Lightbulbs test program at Consumer Reports.

“Stock up on incandescent light bulbs before they are completely discontinued ... 40W bulbs must draw just 10.5W, and 60W bulbs 11W. But the result is the same: Incandescents simply can ...

essentially spelled out the death of the incandescent bulb. That death was planned to start in 2012 and extend to 2014; on the first day of that year, 40W and 60W incandescent bulbs will no longer ...

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 ...

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 ...