Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Rules Requiring More Energy-Efficient Bulbs

Last night I stayed at a hotel with horrible blue lights. The hallways were too bright and too blue. The parking lot was lit up with “daylight” blue-white LEDs. It looked like someone decided the lot wasn’t bright enough, and they added supplemental LED floodlights (not even compliant with state law, let alone city code) to the poles to fill the lots with extra light.

The free standing lights in the room had proper shades and pleasant 2700K “warm” CFL bulbs. The ceiling light at the door was blue, the bar light above the bathroom mirror was blue, and the light over the toilet was blue.

The hanging lights in the lobby were fine, but the spotlights in the ceiling were obnoxious.

I wonder if the hotel got ripped off by a fly-by-night energy efficient retrofitter.

Science has determined precisely how blue lights hurt people. It’s too bad the country replaced safe light bulbs with fundamentally defective bulbs prematurely.

I’d like the legislatures to protect the public from blue-white LEDs.

I have a theory that at this point there exists a subset of decision makers who _want_ massive climate change to happen and are actively pushing for it. I assume they want to be ready to take advantage of the new world we’ll all be living in. To be king of the ashes, as it were.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Incandescents should never have been banned. Electricity is already a commodity with a price tag. Halogens get labeled as energy efficient even though they use a lot of lower and produce a lot of heat. LEDs are great, but the light isn't the same. Phillips unsurprisingly lobbied to get bulbs banned. Making certain light bulbs illegal solves nothing. People can make their own decisions.