60 watts to illuminate just one room used to be the norm. Now it sounds insane. Maybe losing the perfect color rendering index was a worthwhile tradeoff after all.
60 watts to illuminate just one room used to be the norm. Now it sounds insane. Maybe losing the perfect color rendering index was a worthwhile tradeoff after all.
Sitting in my tiny Chicagoland apartment with my AC blown out, I could reach my arm out in the kitchen and feel the temperature from my single 60W bulb in the corner.
A year or so ago I touched a 60W incandescent and about peeled skin. Forgot how much heat comes from a glowing filament!
Anyone still call your power bill the “light bill”? :)
If you are old enough, you can remember the EasyBake Oven.
I recently saw in a series or movie (I think it was Spider Noir) someone grab a naked lightbulb to stop it from swinging without any reaction whatsoever. I was screaming at the TV