Posted on 04/04/2007 12:36:46 AM PDT by neverdem
As day follows night, we will soon see lightbulb police patrolling the night.
They will be empowered to write up $50 tickets for using the wrong lightbulb. The light police will be paid $50,000 a year, plus health benefits, and be able to retire after 20 years of writing tickets, with full benefits and lifelong health care. In other words, more rat voters.
I also expect to see the seizure of homes for those repeat offenders who refuse to obey the lightbulb nazis.
I hope you disposed of them properly, in a landfill. :)
“They last a long, long time but the light output is horrible (kinda like a russian apartment with one 25 watt bulb) and they are too expensive.”
Exactly. As long as these people are trying to shove us into a communist-like existence, we might as well look the part.
Well in truth, old magnetic florescent tube lights flickered 120 times a second and were a definite issue for some people. Modern CFL’s do not do that - no flicker during normal operation. But don’t tell them... They’re conditioned to believe it...
But their TV’s and computer monitors flicker typically at 60 times a second... They don’t notice that...
It is easy to tell if a light (or monitor) flickers or not. Just wave your fingers in front of the light quickly and see if they are just a smooth blur or rapid freeze frame type strobe affect.
Where do you think the incandescent bulbs are made?
Not here in America...
I'm glad you were so lucky. I have a number of lamps and ceiling fixtures that I have not found a CFL to fit. The problem is that the base containing the drive circuitry is too large in diameter. In order to use CFL's I'd have to either buy new lamps, or retrofit them with larger shade support structures--neither of which I'm willing to do.
GE makes bulbs in Canada and Westinghouse produces some here in America. You are missing the point... CFL’s take more energy to make and to replace 4 billion light bulbs in America alone will cause the chicoms to build one new Coal Fired Plant per week. CFL’s will cost our economy dearly and cause more pollution than they are intended to cut.
Lose and lose!
LLS
Guess that’ enough to keep them out of the home marketplace although I’ve been reading for a couple of years that they were close to producing a light for the home (hype?). That’s too bad because if congress has its way we’ll all be putting in curlicues. I guess I’ll buy enough incandescents to last about ten years.
I know what I’m going to be buying and hoarding in the coming months.....
I HATE dim lighting!
If I turn on a light, it is because I want to SEE something!
If I want “ambience,” I light candles.
Screw those fluorescent bulbs....er...pun intended.
The cost of the energy to make the CFL is included in the purchase price. To say that it will consume more energy to use CFL’s verses standard incandescents is simply wrong.
As far as China building new coal power plants, they’re going to do it anyway. CFL production is a tiny amount of their quickly growing energy needs.
Mercury is the only valid longterm debatable issue. Reports on the Web indicate that overall, power plants would reduce their output of mercury into the environment more than CFL’s will add as a result of using CFL’s. I don’t know if that’s true... But that’s what some claim...
Really? I have a 16+ year old washer and haven't looked at the features on a new one. I often run hot/warm in the winter because my incoming water is so cold in the winter (I think the pipes aren't deep enough) that the only way I can get a good rinse is by using warm water. I've seen that "cold" water for washing should be a minimum 65°F, not the almost ice I get. If you really can't use hot/warm, I might have to hook up my washer's cold intake to a mixture of hot and cold plumbed together externally.
sounds impressive. Not heard of that brand. Will have to check them out.
That's fair dinkum. About 10 years ago I needed a new washing machine. Wanted one with hot/wash; didn't use it often, but if there was sickness, etc. it was nice to have. Anyway, went all over the place, looked and looked and looked. Couldn't find one. Finally asked a salesman. In a nutshell, he said manufacturers haven't made hot/warm for the last several years ( and this was 10 years ago, remember?) b/c Congress had mandated no more hot/warm. Part of the "energy conservation" stuff.
Cheeze, liberals and their shinning path. Like being pecked to death by a a duck! :op
I guess the country is running so well that Congress can now concentrate on light bulbs.
Only if you assume they are planning to ban the bulb, when they are instead going to ban MAKING them, probably as a kind of phased procedure. Therefore you will only need to replace bulbs as they blow or wear out, which you would have to do anyway. So they wont cost your economy any more than you are paying now, and probably a lot less, cos you wont need to make so many CFLs, as they last longer.
I think this is more about the patent royalties. Incandecent bulbs have no royalties or patents to pay.
The CF lighting is under patent and therefore more profitable. No generic competition.
This is a follow the money BS.
The free market is fixing this without political waste of time. CF’s will be replaced by LED lights.
So no I will be using standard bulbs. Didn’t know about the mercury either.
Back to the re-education camps for you!
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