Thread: Indoor Lighting: CFLs, LEDs, Halogen? Which is best?
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Old 03-21-2007, 05:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Indoor Lighting: CFLs, LEDs, Halogen? Which is best?
I've heard that for white light, compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) are more energy efficient than LEDs.
The suggestion was that in other portions of the visible light spectrum (red I suspect, amber perhaps) LEDs may have a slight energy efficiency advantage over fluorescents.

Halogen bulbs are typically bright, sometimes 500 watts or more.
And they give off a lot of heat.
Would a 40 watt halogen bulb be more energy efficient than conventional tungsten?

What kind of bulbs do you use?
Do you like them?
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