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Livermore's famous bulb celebrates its 110th birthday
Contra Costa Times ^
| 6/16/11
| Jeanine Benca
Posted on 06/16/2011 1:27:21 PM PDT by SmithL
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:27:27 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
4 watts?
That’s a night light.
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:30:25 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: SmithL
Soon to be outlawed by a government near you.
To: SmithL
That is awfult that they’re wasting all that precious energy on a non-green incandescent bulb!!! /sarc
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:31:57 PM PDT
by
cowboyway
(Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
To: smokingfrog
My nightlights are 7 watt, but they don’t last as long.
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:32:03 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: smokingfrog
Thats a night light.Yes, and never turned off, which is the key......
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:33:16 PM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Quiet the Idiot)
To: SmithL
The inventor was murdered by “The Man”.
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:33:40 PM PDT
by
Spruce
To: SmithL
so they can make a light buld last forever? bump
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:35:02 PM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
To: ScreamingFist
How long before Algoe & Co. claim this bulb is killing polar bears?
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:35:31 PM PDT
by
matt04
To: rightwingcrazy
"
Soon to be outlawed by a government near you."
Actually it will be 96 watts short of illegal, but, . . .
Shush! Don't tell the light bulb police. They will agitate to have the law (rule) changed.
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:43:26 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: SmithL
I could stare at that for hours and hours and hours and
To: SmithL
I thought all incandescent bulbs had to be replaced?
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:49:12 PM PDT
by
dirtymac
To: rightwingcrazy
I was gonna say that... ;-)
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:51:35 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
To: SmithL
Oh the horror! It’s been adding to gorebull warming all these years!!
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:51:53 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: ScreamingFist
Yep. They always pop and burn-out when you turn them on.
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posted on
06/16/2011 1:54:32 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: SmithL
It looks like it has a 110 years of dirt on it too!
To: almost done by half
The “dirt” is probably a very thin layer of metal (tungsten?) deposited on the inside of the bulb. This would be the same material as the filament. The bulb has lasted this long due to the lack of thermal cycling from turning it on and off.
The vacuum tubes in Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) lasted so long for the same reason. The old vacuum tube system lasted until the late 80’s early 90’s
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posted on
06/16/2011 2:27:59 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(FUBO, the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
To: SmithL
I have a 1 watt LED bulb that has been going for a year or so of intermittent use.
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posted on
06/16/2011 2:38:45 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Fred Hayek
Yes, just wait until Obama comes in and turns off the switch by mistake.
To: Paladin2
I have a 10 watt CFL that has been burning nearly 24/7 for about 16 months.
That evil bulb is in a small lamp located in the bathroom which has no windows. The regular light switch is not in a convenient location.
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posted on
06/16/2011 3:06:17 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
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