Posted on 10/16/2009 12:32:57 PM PDT by Marty62
Fluroscent lights will prove to be the downfall of modern civilization—— too much mercury inside, too many high voltage and high pitched frequencies, too light in the way of full spectrum lighting.
Bleech. And if you want to use them VOLUNTARILY fine -——why insist that I have to?
You're right - summer comes and the pump for an in ground pool runs 8 to 10 hours a day. Hollywood big liberals aren't going to give up any perks - YOU can give up your TV...
HUMMM. I wonder how much energy a Movie Theatre uses.
Never mind...don’t want to give them any ideas.
These proposed regulations wouldn’t apply to TVs people already own and operate. They would only apply to new TVs, so nobody would be forced to buy a new TV.
Well there ARE theaters that save on power by using lower watt bulbs for their projectors making the screen darker than it should be.
Thanks for the right rear quarter view of the 1968 Camaro, my fav car.
No problem... the government will help you buy another converter to convert the HD signal from last year's converter back to a regular signal.
Obama’s healthcare plan doesn’t mandate that you drop private insurance but he says that within 20 years no one will have private coverage which is the goal.
Yep I agree. I don’t like to be FORCED to do anything.
Interestingly enough, I haven’t heard of movie projectors using any kind of fluorescent lamp technology. It’s always a big hot xenon or halogen lamp.
Did you see that story and do you know if it actually went anyplace?
Oh, yes. It was actually a lawsuit by MA against a NH business. Gov. Lynch (a Dem. believe it or not) came right out and said that NH businesses collecting taxes for MA was not going to fly. The Legislature (again, Dem. controlled!) passed a law that put Lynch's statement into law.
I think the lawsuit itself was still working it's way through the courts, and if you want to save 6.25% off any purchase, just cross the border.
The last tome I bought a TV, there was one of those energy savings stickers on it. A JVC. I thought they were already doing this.
Yes! It’s up to Taxachusetts to (try to) collect its state “use tax.”
OOPS, so much for instant replay.
I am going to make a mint selling AC adaptors to plug in to power outlets/cigarette lighters in Prius and/or electric autos so LA-LA-LAnders can run their TV’s guilt-free.
"Mr. Smith! your morning exercises!!"
There are the Federal “Energy Star” models, which is what you see. Sounds like Fornicalia is trying to go above and beyond.
Film critic Roger Ebert has long been a crusader for optimum film presentation, which he has addressed repeatedly in his Answer Man column in the Chicago Sun-Times, parts of which he e-mailed to me for this story. He reserves particular venom for theaters that don't run bulbs at their full wattage. This is called lowering the amperage, or juice.(I, um, kinda know the guy Ebert quoted.)"I first heard about this shameful practice from Martin Scorsese, who actually visits theaters with a light meter to determine if the picture is being projected at the correct light intensity," Ebert writes. "Moviegoers in some cities may never have seen a properly lit image. The result: sad, dim, washed-out movies. This is stupid for two reasons: (1) discerning customers never return to such theaters, and (2) according to the veteran Chicago movie publicist and distributor John Iltis, the practice does not extend the life of the bulbs!"
In another column, Ebert writes: "Many theater chains routinely order projectionists to turn down the bulb intensity in the mistaken belief that will extend the life of the expensive bulbs. As a result, films look darker than their makers intended. (I) quoted Carl Donath of Kodak in February 1999: 'A dirty secret is that movies are under-lit in most theaters. Films are produced with the intent that they be projected at the brightness of 16 foot-lamberts. Field research by Kodak found that they are often shown at between 8 and 10 foot-lamberts, well under the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) standard for brightness.'
"Ironically," Ebert concludes, "testing shows that bulbs burn just about as long at full power, so theater chains are not only cheap, but stupid. Clip this item, laminate it, and have it ready to show theater managers at a moment's notice."
But it is sometimes carried out in sight of the Capitol and on the site of the temporary Capitol grounds, which later became the Capitol Prison during the Civil War. Witness the 1865 execution of Henry Wirz, who was the warden of the infamous Andersonville Confederate prisoner of war camp.
Of course, the building was eventually torn down to make way for the existing Supreme Court building. So, it could be said that people have been executed in the Supreme Court - try that on for size.
What is the point of this?
Is this whole thing nothing more than a PR stunt?
I mean the list doesn’t seem to have any energy gouging issues.
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