Light Bulbs

The American industrial state should cease building incandescent light bulbs, except for express space heating purposes. 40% of our light comes from incandescent sources. I read today that a 60 watt plug can be filled with a 13 watt special bulb. That saves over 80% of the energy from that bulb. Additionally, traffic lights can be updated with LED arrays, saving over 88% of the electricity used in them, and they won't need to be changed for 20 years. This could save us many megawatt hours of power annually.

If it is necessary, the state should subsudize the industry to stop major production of incandescents and pick up the slack with modern lightbulbs. This will save us money from electricity and reduce consumption and pollution, and make our energy infrastructure more able to meet growing needs.

Furthermore, we should cease production of old polluting technologies in automobiles, power plants, and other appliances and applications and update them with modern techniques to save power.