Six states currently ban landfill disposal of CFLs and fluorescent tubes: California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington. What Is the Best Type of Light Bulb for Your Home?

Halogen bulbs, a type of incandescent, remain an option but will cost you more than twice as much to power as LEDs and CFLs and don't last anywhere near as long. LED technology is evolving rapidly.

Like the incandescent bulb before it, the compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb is rapidly fading into obscurity as there are fewer and fewer reasons to use them over their LED successors. But there are ...

DEFINITION: CFLs are a type of energy-efficient lighting which typically use around 60-80% less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs and have a lifespan of around 10 years – five times that of ...

Take a fluorescent tube, form it into a bulb-like shape and give it a screw base, and you’ve got a CFL. Both types of bulbs produce light by the excitation of a gas, and the problem they create ...

CFL’s are commonly long, cylinder shaped and usually coated in white. They are considered energy-saving and are meant to substitute the older incandescent light bulbs that existed prior to these; ...

Regis: Hi, Barbara. Are you using the new light bulbs? Fluorescent tubes have been shrunk into white spiral bulbs called compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). They use less energy! Barbara: Well, I just ...