Posted on 01/17/2008 5:16:01 AM PST by fweingart
Not true regarding dimmer switches and especially three-ways. Dimmable CFLs are available, but they are expensive. Three-way CFLs are readily available. The design of a three way bulb (two, separately powered filaments) allows three-way CFLs to be built.
"ALL of the government-edicted bulbs are manufactured in Communist China....our esteemed ally and trading 'partner.'"
And where do you think the 31 cent incandescent bulbs are built?
For my home, the jury’s still out on their lives...and of course their prices continue to drop.
The bulbs I used in my lamps have been in for 3 years now. The floods and globes I have are new, so we’ll see but I have read the same thing you posted from other people.
And I don’t mean to infer that I’m for a law requiring people buy them...that’s stupid.
I've known a couple of epileptics who were sent into seizures by the overhead-bar type of fluorescent lights. I wonder if these will do the same?
Might be a manufacturer issue. The ones I use are 100W “equivalent” manufactured by Feit and purchased at Costco (currently about $2 each) I bought a 150 w equivalent (about $11 from Lowes) for an open kitchen light base up (hanging over the kitchen table), but it hasn’t been there long enough to evaluate.
OK. Sorry. I heard traces of McCain’s “they’ll be more efficient then” reply when he was asked about the ban going into effect in 2012.
My daughter thinks LED lighting will be much more energy efficient than CFL. Anyone here have any info? the web sites I checked were either selling them, or seemed to be out of date.
LEDs will truly be the future. They use like 1/30 the energy of a regular bulb and they have no toxic parts to them. Problem is that right now they’re expensive and brightness isn’t up to snuff yet.
But that’ll change quickly over the next couple of years I’m sure.
As soon as everyone has these bulbs in every light socket in every home and business, it will be addressed. Then they can once again outlaw what we have and demand that we buy the next generation what ever they come up with. In the meantime, there's lots of money to be made!
Thanks, I did find a site that had them a little less costly than others... http://www.ledlight.com/default.aspx
I might buy 1-2 and try them out.
Look back at the TVs and Radios of the 50s and 60s. When you were having problems with the TVs you had to open the back reach into the chassis that contained enough voltage to give a fatal shock, and you would pull the glass tubes out one at a time being careful not to break the pins, and then test them until you found the bad one. I learned some colorful language watching my Dad do this, while my Mom was mumbling in the kitchen about if he would just call the repair man. Solid State components made the old glass tubes obsolete in our radios and TVs. There were NO LAWS banning the glass tubes. It took innovation, and that is how it should be with the light bulbs or anything else.
When it makes sense to replace lights with CFLs we will do it on our own. We all love saving money and lower power bills but the CFL technology has not quite advanced enough to completely replace the old bulbs. In my home there are bulbs that we could and have replaced, but there are others like the decorative bulbs in our entry or dining room, the miniature halogens which light pictures on the walls and such that they just dont make CFLs for.
“As soon as everyone has these bulbs in every light socket in every home and business, it will be addressed. Then they can once again outlaw what we have and demand that we buy the next generation what ever they come up with. In the meantime, there’s lots of money to be made!”
Well that’ll be the hypocrisy come to fruition. The greenies will decry the mercury factor and conveniently forget they pushed CFs to begin with.
The way I saved $$$ on my electric...
Moved from CT at 20 cents/kwH
to FL 11 cents/kwH
Then we append the law and mandate a five year warranty.
Phase 1) These big giants got it their way
Phase 2) Let’s balance the deal and make them back up their claims and include their responsibility for mercury recovery. Since they are so legislative happy, write this into federal law as well.
What a wonderful opportunity. Invest $3100 for ten thousand regular light bulbs today. These would be pre-ban bulbs. Store them for 5-10 years. Sell on ebay for $3-$5 each.
Pennsylvania.
At least, that's what the box claims.
“Had Thomas Edison employed the same business strategy as his 21st-Century heirs at General Electric, he would have lobbied Congress to outlaw the candle in 1879 when he perfected and patented the light bulb.”
No he would have spread a lie-based smear campaign against the “dangers” of alternating current since he was a direct current guy. Edison may have been a great inventor but he was pretty much everything and more that this author presumes in his analogy.
Ha ha ha. Good luck with that. Just who is this "we" you're talking about? Do you seriously think that Kongress is going to to anything to cause financial paid to the big corporate lobbys?
Sounds nice (and idealistic), but if you have a means to accomplish this I'd like to see it.
Well said. This environmental fascism has to be beaten NOW, before it gains even more of a foothold.
The article did make me think, however... how is it the Nanny State Hitlers forgot to ban candles, while they were at it?
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