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Incandescent lightbulbs are now banned in the US (qz.com)

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The Biden Administration's rules seek to make lighting cheaper and less polluting

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am no electrician, but this looks to be applicable to longer sections of pipes. Instead of the heat being focused to just the areas reachable by visible light, this would allow for thawing around bends, longer distances, tighter / smaller spaces, etc.

It still uses power to generate heat, but that 60W will likely be way more efficiently applied to pipes. Bulbs will be quite lossy because heat goes through the air to reach nearby pipes (and any other nearby objects), whereas this is physical wires applied directly around said pipes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Conduction vs Convection, yeah. Conduction is going to be way faster / more efficient.

Might even be able to put it on a variable switch and build some logic with a raspberry pi so you don't need all 60w.