You might think that the everyday light bulb is the most common type of lighting today, but actually--if you count all the offices and factories in the United States--the fluorescent lamp outshines the incandescent light bulb as our main source of...

A fluorescent lamp or fluorescent tube is a gas-discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, resulting in a plasma that produces short-wave ultraviolet light. This light then causes a phosphor to fluoresce,...

Look up. Chances are good that the lamps illuminating this very page are fluorescent. More than two-thirds of all commercial and industrial facilities in the United States had installed fluorescent lighting by the 1960s, according to Advanced Lighting Guidelines: 2003 Edition, a document...

Q: When I went to the hardware store to buy some replacement bulbs for my outdoor floodlights, the clerk told me they were no longer being manufactured. What's the deal? A: What happened is the National Energy Policy Act of 1992. Enacted to...

The Philippines will phase out incandescent bulbs by 2010 in favor of more energy-efficient fluorescent globes to help cut greenhouse gas emissions and household costs, the president said Tuesday.Acknowledging similar moves in Canada and Australia, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called for a ban on incandescent...

One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way.The incandescent light bulb, perfected for mass use by Thomas A. Edison in the...