Live longer by quitting smoking, drinking moderately, exercising regularly, limiting stress and eating a bowl of porridge every day. Great advice for a human, but terrible for a compact fluorescent ...

Few talked about solid-state lighting -- known as light emitting diodes or LEDs --except as futuristic technology that would probably come of age in 2020 and beyond. Most consumers considered them ...

The most recent data from the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) shows that today’s home is in a state of energy transformation. Energy-saving light bulbs have grown sharply in ...

A startup is selling a new kind of energy efficient light bulb that costs half as much as a light emitting diode (LED) and, unlike compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL), contains no mercury. The light ...

Since the United States adopted new lighting efficiency standards in 2012, light bulb manufacturers have been racing to develop products that use less energy but perform as well as power-hogging ...

This morning, I overheard my home contractor husband asking a hardware story about the benefits of compact fluorescent bulbs. We are redoing our kitchen right now, and BRIGHT energy efficiency ...

A mixture of regulations and increased energy costs have prodded many consumers towards LED and compact fluorescent bulbs, the former of which in particular comes with a (relatively speaking) high ...

I just picked up a few Cree LED bulbs the other day since I was at Home Depot and curious. So far, I'm quite impressed. They come on faster than CFL, the light quality is quite good, and cost isn't ...