Lunacy dims Edison's invention (GE bulb factory to close - Algore's fault)

TriValley Central ^ | 9/21/10 | Alan Levine

[Libloather]

Gotta turn this boat around.

[wally_bert]

Or at least all stop and then full reverse.

[J Edgar]

It’s not lunacy. It is corruption, pure and simple. Phillips company bribed enough Congressional members to mandate buying the light bulb that they have a patent on.

[Sacajaweau]

Absolutely ridiculous for the government to mandate the curly bulbs....especially when we know what’s coming...environmental cleanup w/ fines....Just like asbestos...and lead paint

[PGR88]

It’s nearly unbelievable that Al Gore and the Government are going to force me to stock up on incandescent light bulbs before they are banned.

Just ridiculous.

[QBFimi]

Hint to the “slow to catch on”:
Time to stock up. (Rumor has it three 3-way incandescent production will stop soon.)

[ontap]

I wonder how many of these workers vote democrat!

[onedoug]

Bush´s fault.

He signed it into law.

[Vaduz]

The boat from China will turn around after dropping off shipment of bulbs.

[hosepipe]

Another thing he stOle from Tesla...

[Yo-Yo]

Phillips company bribed enough Congressional members to mandate buying the light bulb that they have a patent on.

You sure about that?

http://greenpatentblog.com/2008/04/20/lights-out-for-prolific-pro-se-cfl-inventor/

[MissAmericanPie]

This is an example of why it is a bad idea to owe so many trillions of dollars to a foreign government like China. Because we owe them so much cash they can demand we buy all our light bulbs from them, so the ones we produce have to vanish and they are.

Reading the instructions on the precautions needed to be followed when cleaning up after the breakage of a light bulb made in China, one almost needs to wear a hazmat suit, not to mention what toxic mercury waste they will add to our landfills.

Wonder what the dollar value of our freedoms will be when those get sold off?

[J Edgar]

Yes, Phillips did the bribing of Congress after getting license from Nilssen. This information was contained in a FR post around the time that Congress passed the ‘Green Light Bulb’ legislation.

From you link:

” ... Nilssen ... had entered an agreement to license the technology to Philips Electronics ... and had actually licensed some of the applications to Philips. ... “

[Yo-Yo]

Yes, I read that, but the rest of the article says that the patents were found to be unenforcable. So nobody has a patent on the CFL.

I did find another article that says that Philips enjoys a higher profit margin on CFLs than on incandescents, and that was their motivation to lobby to ban incandescents in the EU.

The Unholy Alliance between Philips and the Greens

[Cacique]

Give the left a few years and they will ban all types of lighting except for candles..

[J Edgar]

I think the bottom line for all of this ‘Green’ legislation, is to establish ways to take money form the masses and deliver it into the hands of the politically connected elites.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Another thing he stOle from Tesla...

Quite a trick since Edison held the patent on the threaded base and the method of evacuating the air from the bulb. How did that happen? In fact, Tesla had to design around Edison's patents.

I don't mean to take anything away from Tesla as he single handedly invented the modern power distribution system. Both men were genius caliber inventors, and both men had serious flaws which blinded them to their own mistakes.

Regards,
GtG

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Tawiskaro]

[Elsie]

Another thing he stOle from Tesla...

Oh?

Rumor has it that Tom bought the patent from a couple of Canadian fellows...