This Christmas season, a decades-old favorite decoration - became banned and isn't for sale in stores anymore.

The reason for the incandescent light bulb ban (effective August 1st, 2023) is that they’re not energy efficient.

Neil degrasse Tyson weighed in on these outdated relics of the past: loading...

“Not that anybody asked, but do you ever wonder why the old lightbulbs get hot and the new LED lightbulbs don’t?

In the old lightbulbs - 90% of the energy you were paying for - 90% of the wattage - was coming out in a band of light that you could not see.

It’s completely useless to you.

And what band was that? Infrared.

We detect infrared as warmth and in the extreme as something very hot and that can burn you.

So what LEDs do - is take all the energy you need and want a lightb

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