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An incandescent bulblamp wastes large amount of energy as heat. How to minimize it?

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Incandescent bulbs produce light by heating the filament. So a lot of energy will lose in the form of heat.

It can't be reduced. The only solution is to replace it with LED lamps or CFL lamps.

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