What if – Incandescent Light Bulbs were Invented today?
Congress Overturns Incandescent Light Bulb Ban
Washington Times – 1 April, 2024
Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year.
What If…?
What if, in a strange alternate universe, the incandescent bulb was invented today, and the CFL had been invented first?
Imagine the news.
“New, ultra bright light bulb contains no pollutants”
A lone inventor, Alva T. Edistone demonstrated a new, elegantly simple, extremely bright light bulb based on electrical resistance.
While not as energy efficient as the standard CFL bulb, giving off more heat and having a shorter lifespan, these inexpensive new lamps are manufactured with little or no heavy metals or other noxious materials.
Composed of little more than Glass, Aluminum, perhaps a bit of Brass and Copper, a couple of inert gases and a miniscule amount of tungsten, the revolutionary new bulb, unlike the Mercury laden CFL lamp, costs pennies to manufacture and is 100% recyclable.As a bonus, if people choose to not recycle their bulbs, these new bulbs are harmless to the environment.
Environmentalists are expected to lobby Congress for a swift approval of the new bulbs, and an outright ban on the the dangerous, polluting, expensive CFL bulbs.
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