i cannot use energy efficient lightbulbs in my house
I can only use incandescent light bulbs. I heard on the news a few weeks back that incandescent bulbs will no longer be sold in 5-10 years, and that use of them will be illegal!
What the fuck am I to do?
My whole house is wired up to turn lights off when people leave the room, and turn on when people enter, and in the middle of the night when you get up for a piss, or to see to the crying baby, it brings the lights on at 30% brightness, so you don't get completely dazzled, and can still see clearly at that lighting level. Surely this is energy efficient ?
It will cost me over £2K to convert back.
( turb0t, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 13:58, 1 reply)

You could use
LED lights. Expensive, but you don't lose your impressive-sounding lighting arrangement.

Alternatively you can get some dimmable-in-stages energy savers.

I'm considering installing Electroluminescent strips or single LEDs around the flat (on the unused faces of doorframes) to give me a low-level "sofa-avoidance" level backlight at night. I'm just pricing it up at the moment so I don't know if it'd be really cheap. Could you try that?
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 12:14, closed)