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White House announces new lighting standards
State-Run Associated Press ^ | 6/29/09 | LIZ SIDOTI

Posted on 06/29/2009 4:49:42 PM PDT by Crazieman

WASHINGTON -- Aiming to keep the focus on climate change legislation, President Barack Obama put a plug in for administration efforts to make lamps and lighting equipment use less energy.

"I know light bulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and businesses," the president said, standing alongside Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the White House.

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To: just me

B.A.T.F. & L.B’s


61 posted on 06/29/2009 6:00:55 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and businesses
The best way to reduce that 7 per cent figure is to require vehicles to run on batteries instead of gasoline. That will push up the overall use of electricity and solve the other problem, a two birds with one stone approach. Genius. ;')
62 posted on 06/29/2009 6:05:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: muawiyah
If the Obamistas and their running dog lackeys had the slightest bit of sense they'd have asked (begged even) the manufacturers of LED lighting to come up with a standard bracket or brackets that would be available to all producers for use.

The problem I see with that at this point in time is... well, it's still new and evolving technology. All sorts of things are still being worked out, gains made in output and mfg processes.....

Competition is working on it, and the rewards will be great for the one(s) that can make it cheap, versatile and durable. Gooberment getting into the mix at this early stage, is just going to screw things up, and possibly lock us into a less than ideal solution, just for political expediency.

63 posted on 06/29/2009 6:11:01 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Crazieman
7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and businesses

Another Obama lie. Residential and commercial energy use makes up only 10.8% of total energy demand. Lighting makes up less than 9% of that use, meaning that lighting our homes and businesses makes up only 1% of total energy use.

64 posted on 06/29/2009 6:11:22 PM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Crazieman

What’s The Great One’s plan for dealing with the mercury leftovers?
Hmmm?


65 posted on 06/29/2009 6:13:24 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: La Lydia

No automated showers.

WE NEED JOBS.

So I volunteer to be the first ‘shower’ monitor. I am willing to work for only a mere $30 per shower inspection.

It is a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

And as the first inspector, I get to pick the showers I will be monitoring.

Hmmmm. Boy, this could be the perfect job.

Being as the feds are involved, I may need to video some of the showers to accurately document that they are the correct length ...

:)


66 posted on 06/29/2009 6:13:54 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: AFreeBird
Absent a well thought universal bracket standard an inferior standard is being implemented and will waste billions of dollars while increasing health risks to the American people.

Edison had his standard when he went to market selling power generation systems; Tesla followed. For the most part the bracket standards those two men established a century ago continue to be THE standards.

It's pretty obvious that the dramatic reduction in heat offered with LED systems can allow for far better brackets. All we need is a standard.

67 posted on 06/29/2009 6:14:41 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muir_redwoods
Every time I go to the grocery store I pick up a pack of 60 watt incandescent light bulbs. I think the compact fluorescent bulbs suck and when they die, long before their advertised life span is up, I throw them in the trash.

Same here - my goal is to have a lifetime supply by 2012. I may buy extras and sell them at a premium to the suckers that didn't think ahead.
68 posted on 06/29/2009 6:19:10 PM PDT by weef
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To: PLMerite
I’m sure there is (or can be) a low-cost gizmo that can determine if an incandescent bulb is being used in a specific residence. Maybe some function of a “smart meter” or whatever.

A "smart grid" will just identify you as using "more than your fair share", and you will be cut off.

I'll be moving to a small town in MT to avoid all of this creeping communism.

69 posted on 06/29/2009 6:21:04 PM PDT by SIDENET ("Join me or die. Can you do any less?" -Mr. Sparkle)
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To: KJC1
Bump, KJC1. You said exactly what was on my mind...but you put it to words much better than I would've.

Zero makes me ILL.

70 posted on 06/29/2009 6:23:37 PM PDT by Miss Behave (OMG, my tagline is stalking me.)
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To: OpusatFR

Give it time and I’m sure we’ll find it mandatory to carry Obama’s “little black book”. (just like Mao’s “little red book”)


71 posted on 06/29/2009 6:26:35 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Crazieman

As a further sign of the Obummer administration’s commitment to increasing bovine excressence regarding energy initiatives, The Annointed One has announced that the thermostat in the Oval Office will be lowered from the 78 degrees that has drawn the ire of certain arch-reactionary counterrevolutionary terrorist types, to an exaple-setting 65, for a trial period of three months.


72 posted on 06/29/2009 6:30:56 PM PDT by Humble Servant (See y'all in the Gulag.)
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To: Crazieman
How is this for sexy?


73 posted on 06/29/2009 6:37:46 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: muawiyah
Well, the standards they have to work with at this point are (IMHO): 120VAC, Edison socket, and more recently, dimmible with existing dimmers.

Oddly enough, I recently ran across a CFL bulb, that was dimmible, even with an old X-10 lamp module. I don't believe that was government mandated, the consumers were screaming for it.

Look, I'm all for standards, but I would rather the electronic/lighting industries, in conjunction with the end users (consumers), come up with them. Let's keep government out of it.

The Tesla, Edison shootout that you spoke of was conducted w/out government intrusion. Tesla won because he had the superior solution across the board.

Edison's was a Charlie Foxtrot, that only got the hearing it got because of his name. It was still a worthwhile shootout though.

Heck even the world cannot agree on basic electrical standards. What should it be: 120V or 220V; 60Hz or 50Hz; and holy crap, all the different plug and receptacle designs...

Lets see if we can get (here is the US) a 100W equivalent, Edison socket, 120V, dim capable LED bulb I can screw into a 50 year antique lamp, or recessed cans for less than say - $20/bulb to start?

74 posted on 06/29/2009 6:40:58 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Crazieman
This evening Majot Garrett said that President Bush had ALREADY made all the White House energy conversions including installing all sorts od solar panels on the roof and bulbs and everything inbetween.

FAIL again, Zero.

75 posted on 06/29/2009 6:45:32 PM PDT by Miss Behave (OMG, my tagline is stalking me.)
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To: AFreeBird
Or, the same thing with a "new standard" bracket that can easily be plugged into an adapter that screws into an antique.

We've been working on small easily hidden away "grow light" systems and the brackets are a problem. There's simply no need for the new LEDs to "screw in" or "snap in" ~ for many of them it'd make more sense to just give us a flat plastic block where we'd use rubber glue or velcro tabs to affix them.

76 posted on 06/29/2009 6:47:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Crazieman
Mr. President,

You said, "I know light bulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and businesses..."

WE, THE PEOPLE say, "Get off it!!"

America was founded on the FREEDOM of INDIVIDUALS to DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES how best to do that kind of thing, NOT GOVERNMENT, and especially not YOUR twisted, all-consuming brand of government.

You, and your administration pukes, stand down until you get a real grip on what The Constitution says you may and may not do.

We'll be coming atcha through the Senate to ram that damned Energy Bill right back down your wannabe totalitarian statist throat.

Signed,
One more American devoted to helping your assault on America amount to nothing


77 posted on 06/29/2009 6:49:13 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Ma dolate zoor nemikhaim!)
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To: Peanut Gallery
I know, I know... we should all use wick and tallow.

But, but, that's going to add to the carbon footprint.

78 posted on 06/29/2009 6:52:32 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men)
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To: All

Guess the muzzies in the White House won’t be decorating for Christmas this year.
(They’ll use ‘saving on electricity’ as an excuse)


80 posted on 06/29/2009 6:54:05 PM PDT by patriot08
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