People relied on cunning, often stealing--not just lightbulbs but chickens, vegetables and soap--to resell.
The lightbulbs flickered their last years ago, and the windows are thick with grease.
Lowe's has hiked average selling prices for refrigerators by 10%, grilles by 7% and even lightbulbs by 8%.
But he says that the next generation of digital projectors, using lasers instead of lightbulbs, will mitigate that problem.
Yet this giant is an eclectic collection of seemingly unrelated pieces--jet engines and lightbulbs, synthetic polymers and Friends sitcoms.
It'll even tell Philips' connected Hue lightbulbs to set a mood.
Smartphone-controlled products like LED lightbulbs and door locks are helping us control our homes with the click of a button.
She said he had rigged up his own electricity supply and lived in near darkness, illuminated only by two low wattage lightbulbs.
Designed by Toro's firm, the space is lit by grids of Edison lightbulbs, contrasting with the dark wooden tables and the gently glowing bar.
Unlike compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL), LEDs do not contain toxic mercury.
At the start of this year the firm, which says it sold 137m compact fluorescent lightbulbs in 2007, said it would take further steps to help consumers go green.
They provide decent light at significant energy savings and because they last longer will also save millions in labor costs as it takes fewer people to screw in fewer lightbulbs.
Unlike other programs, where utilities subsidize energy-saving items like fluorescent lightbulbs and hope that customers actually use less electricity, Duke would get paid only if an independent entity verifies the savings.
Fukuda plans to ban energy-hogging incandescent lightbulbs by 2012.
Now he continues to burnish his image as a micro manager (even store lightbulbs get the Mickey touch) while reinforcing his philosophy of personal service by personally addressing customer complaints.
As with many other products--including tungsten-filament lightbulbs, X-ray machines and jet engines--GE bought patents from an inventor to get into the turbine business, then refined the design and manufacturing techniques ( see time line).
The researchers found that the energy used in pumping, treating, heating, cooling and pressurizing water in the U.S. is about 25% more than all the energy burned in all the lightbulbs in homes and businesses.
First of all, every commuter rail system has full time maintenance crews, and they always have plenty of work: changing lightbulbs in the tube, fixing a signal that got bumped, replacing an on-track communication cable that was vibrated out of place and smashed, etc.
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