SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS
More Stories by Mary Beth Breckenrige
- Readers offer strategies for deterring deer
-
Nature’s ways improve backyard gardening
-
Book helps house hunters think logically
-
Curved shower rod is tension-mounted
- Tell the ‘Does It Work?’ team what you think about products
- Home and garden happenings — week of May 18
- Ask Mary Beth: Ridding ornamental grass of weeds
- Vegetable and fruit plant families
-
School garden will teach healthy eating from the ground up
-
Steal this idea! Decorating inspiration from Designer ShowHouse 2013
-
Garden featured on Bath home tour
-
Bag clip closes large sacks
-
Book covers upholstery basics
- Home and garden happenings — week of May 11
- Tour details
New LED bulb will replace 100-watt incandescent
At last we're getting a standard-shape LED bulb that's bright enough for most home uses.
GE announced today that an LED replacement for the 100-watt incandescent bulb will reach store shelves early next year. Its 27-watt Energy Smart LED bulb, developed at Nela Park in East Cleveland, will be introduced this week at the Lightfair International trade show in Las Vegas.
The bulb produces the same amount of light as a 100-watt incandescent bulb and has the familiar pear shape and approximate size of an A19 bulb, also called an Edison bulb. It's also dimmable and reaches full brightness instantly.
The bulb should last for 25,000 hours, or 22.8 years if it's lighted for three hours a day. Unlike compact fluorescent bulbs, it contains no mercury.
Until now the brightest LED replacement bulbs produced light levels akin to a 60-watt bulb -- fine for lower-level ambient lighting, but too dim for task lighting or for brightening rooms significantly.
No word yet on how much the bulb will cost.
