Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/13/2010 6:36:10 AM PST by jenk
Congressman Fred Upton has been receiving harsh criticism of his quest to become chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Republican has co-sponsored a bill with a liberal Democrat to ban the incandescent light bulb, which was originally made available to the masses by Thomas Edison, because, in Upton’s view, it uses too much energy. Upton believes we, as a society, must focus on energy savings since our energy needs will double in a certain time frame due to a study done by God knows who, and paid for probably by a green group.
Upton argued that only 10% of the “obsolete” incandescent energy use was light, and 90% was heat, making the fluorescent a more efficient bulb.
So he introduced a bill to ban Edison’s lightbulb by 2012.
Thomas Edison was a genius. He moved to Port Huron as a child, and frustrated teachers by his constant question of “why?” His mother knew he was not “addled” as his teacher said, she knew he was gifted. She took him home, taught him herself, and he began a business distributing newspapers, snacks and candy that was so successful, he branched out by selling fruits and vegetables. By 14, the boy was campaigning for Abraham Lincoln, the father of the Republican Party. He started his own newspaper, outlining the Lincoln-Douglas debates and was making 10 dollars a day, enough at the time to live comfortably on his own. But he instead used his extra money to finance his chemical lab.
One of his first inventions was the electric vote-recording machine, which was rejected because lobbyists liked to be able to coerce members of the legislature away from their instinctive vote in the Massachusetts legislature during a long, drawn out manual counting of votes.
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A light bulb Photo: James Bowe/Flickr You gotta hand it to German businessman Siegfried Rotthaeuser, who came up with a brilliant run around the European Union ban on conventional incandescent light bulbs- he rebranded them as "Heat Balls" and is importing them for sale as a "small heating device".
Rotthaeuser's website is in German but Google does a passable job of translation. First, he's very clear that the Heat Ball isn't for lighting, stating (in German, the following is translated) "A HEAT BALL ® is not a lamp, but it fits in the same version!"
Further down: "The use of Heat Balls avoids the lack of heat. The intended use of heat Balls is the heating. "
The funny thing about this is that incandescent bulbs are fairly efficient when they are used as heaters, throwing off around 95% of the energy they draw as heat. In colder climates, using the bulbs for lighting isn't always an inefficient choice as the bulbs add to the warmth of the home. "
The production lines are already moved or moving to china. They are not coming back here.
Soon, an incadesecent bulb will be as hard to get as cocaine.
I have a shitload of them, obtained for free. More than I will ever need. Just waiting for the market to stabilize before my price is set.
Same thing happened with crappers. Had some of them too, but all sold out now.
Those who let the federals define the basic premise of their living standard deserve to live in the dark and scrape their own $hit off the floor.
I’ve been stockpiling them for my own use.
I will have to replace my ceiling fixtures if I have to use the new ones. The globes won’t fit back on some of them with the new design. I hate them.
Why does govt have to take every good idea and f it up???
I have roomfull mainly scooped at a Home Depot sale for 10ç apiece. I’m thinking we should get together and fix the eventual price . . .
I haven’t been a fan of Edison since I read how he treated Nikola Tesla. It’s just a freakin’ light bulb, and a very inefficient one at that. Let the incandescent die in history with Edison.
I agree with you but Thomas Alva Edison should have been much kinder to Nicola Tesla and paid him the $50,000.00
Who cares what you think.
does that have anything to do with what i wrote? no I was careful not to say he invented it, Okay?
So he introduced a bill to ban Edison’s lightbulb by 2012.<
This is the most lamebrained ban with which these imbeciles have come up yet. Ban the incandescent, and in its place, put this:
Yep, makes sense to me. After all, everyone knows that halogen bulbs produce no appreciable heat. < /S>
Right back at you!
Yep, we’ll be the incandescent light bulb magnates of the 21st century!! And here I was worried about not having any investments to see me through the coming hard times!!
I’m so sorry, I deeply apologize for having offended you with my mis-directed comment.
Your right to make a decision should not affect my right to decide as I see fit.
I want these light bulbs. They have their place just as fluorescent bulbs do. And it is my decision, not yours or the governments.
Oh yes, I like Edison and I like Tesla. But that has nothing to do with allowing the government to make decisions as mundane as what kind of "a freakin' lightbulb" I purchase for my own personal use. Central control keeps creeping along. We need to draw a line in the sand.
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No problem.
exactly.
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