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Won't matter when lightblub manufacturing companies all agreed upon limiting the lifespan of bulbs to increase turnover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Contrived_durability
There are incandescent bulbs that still work from over 100 years ago. Modern bulbs die with less than 10 years of use. Both incandescent and LED. But this new law will, of course, increase LED bulb sales. I'm sure no politicians have increases their GE shares before this.
Technology Connections just released a video about this. Those 100 year bulbs (and long lasting ones) used more energy and produced too little light to be useful for a majority of people.
Technology Connections: Long Lasting Bulbs