Posted on 09/16/2011 3:28:29 PM PDT by bobsunshine
fwiw,
Governor Palin ahead of the Curve on Rare Earth Metals...
in October 2010
The rare earth we are talking about in CFL’s is europium. It’s not necessary for the thing to work, just to get the color balance that is desirable.
Color TV screens contain between 0.5 and 1 g of europium. Of course almost no one is making them anymore...
This is classic dumping at low costs to drive other player out of business and create a monopoly.
Now that they have driven the competition into the ground, they wish to squeeze the rest of the world with their monopolistic policies.
They are trying to do this in many other industries with their unfair, predatory trade policies so perhaps we can get a clue to what the future holds and resist their predatory policies, especially on strategic materials and industries, before they destroy even more of our industrial base.
Gee, who couldn’t see this one coming? Just the greenies, enviro-nuts, democrats and the RINO’s who went along with them!
We all knew China was brown. But seeing how these wonderful “green” twisty bulbs were contributing to the brownness might be a startle even to the hippies. So this product needed some rare earths that were being mined brownly in China, eh? And now China decides to fix it (hurrah for them, but boo hiss for Congress who still is mandating the extinction of the old incandescent bulb).
ROFL!!!!!! (this really isn't funny, but it SHOULDN'T be a bother to us, if not for our damn stupid politicians forcing us to buy such bulbs....)
Some of the countries we’re now reliant upon and will soon be beholden to can easily use energy and mineral supplies as a weapon against us.
The solution? Simply, please don’t elect politicians who cast votes that lock up our plentiful supplies. Please consider the case of China bending us over a barrel as it develops rare earth minerals while we ban mining. Please consider Venezuela and Russia and Saudi Arabia and Brazil (as we subsidize their off-shore drilling) and all other energy-producing countries as the Left locks up ANWR, NPR-A, and other American lands that are teeming with our own needed energy supplies.
“Drill, baby, drill and mine, baby, mine.” Yep, the mantra may be mocked by the Democrats, but serious consequences ensue when we let the Left make us rely on foreign countries to feed us energy. The joke is on us if they win.
Oh well, I guess the 1500 (incandescent) bulbs in my attic might come in handy.
Yes, the government can influence my life, but I do all that I can to keep them from controlling it.
Why don't state governors just order drills and digs to bypass Federal regs and environazi suits? What's going to happen? Will Obama send in the Army? NULLIFY!
I hope so. I have invested/experimented with home LED lighting, and it’s about time that producers got serious. My keyboard light and reading light and hallway light are LED.
Saw an architectural LED “light engine” that could do color washes with 1 cp at 900 feet (pricey but pretty).
As for teh Chinese and critical metals, gosh, we are being treated like a colony- like King George treated US economically!
We didn’t have this problem with light bulbs and Rare Earth 40 years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANrkVF_FkEI
Well I bought up a bunch of incandescents too. At 20 bucks I can get enough to last quite a while.
Probably send in the Feds to shut it down, same way the shut off water in CA central valley to save the “delta smelt” fish and put a ton of farmers out of business
If you look more closely, you might just find that China has purchased controlling interests in such mines, like they have in Colorado
china plays chess while the US plays pin the tail on the donkey.
our government is like some kind of psycho retard who shoots himself in the foot and then blames it on the gun
Why exclude the military?
The only AC-powered light source good for heavy reading is incandescents. Fluorescent, LED, and esp. halogens are tough on the irises because of the more-pronounced 60Hz flicker rate -- someone told me this has been suppressed in newer fluorescents that have ballasts running at much higher cycle rates, but I don't know about that. LED's and halogens would IMHO be toughest on the eyes.
On DC current, halogens are far better, said to be the best. Expect LED's would be there, too, as steady light source for reading.
Caveat: I think most AC/DC transformers produce pulsating DC, so the problem would still be present.
Panic spread by numnutz!
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