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7. I have an incandescent bulb lamp on the floor with the bulb about 3" above my feet

Reply to Calculating (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 7, 2021, 08:49 PM

Dec 2021

keeping them warm so I can turn the house thermostat a degree further down than otherwise. So the inefficiency of the incandescent bulb is a feature, not a bug, in this application.

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