The point of the progressive agenda is always to make energy more expensive, not less. If you keep this in mind, many things that otherwise would make no sense, make perfect sense. The Left loves high energy costs. If you just accept that premise, everything they do on the energy scene makes sense, even the bad things (which is most of them).
The government should stay the hell out of regulating light bulbs, dishwashers and a whole host of appliances including efficiency standards for autos.
That said... I love LED light bulbs.
I use incandescent bulbs, and I have have a stash of them as backups. If I want more, I just order them via eBay or Amazon from an overseas source.
Yep, LED Lumens do not necessarily make the illuminated object more clear to the eye.
Just wait until the Feds are done effin’ us with EVs. It’s only the beginning....look at how dependable green energy is...and cost effective too! Kinda like obamacare, whenever the government opens its mouth....lies pour out like, well, diarrhea.
The entire light bulb thing has been a scam from the start.
We have plenty of the “new, efficient” bulbs in our home and have been changing at LEAST one of them every month, for years!
Incandescent, we changed once in a while. Never, ever like this new CRAP.
The worst part is, how hard it is to even know which damn bulb to buy! Ugggghhhhh, I’m stopping now before I go Full Old Lady.
One thing I like to point out is that Incandescent bulbs can be 100% efficient in your home in a cold climate. This is because all the heat losses simply heat your home.
Over all though the LED bulbs can make a noticeable difference in your electric bill. Some of them last for years and others not so long because of those cheap power supplies in the base of the bulb. I don’t see congress regulating those.
Sorry, George76, but this article is the biggest pile of bullshit I have ever seen posted on FR. It has more errors that a Swiss cheese has holes. Whoever wrote it is a scientific illiterate.
I have beveled glass fixtures in front of my garage. The best bulb is a clear incandescent light that gives it a natural look. I stocked up on the bulbs cause the LED bulbs make you feel that you’re in a waiting room at the hospital.
Oh absolutely. And if the ice cream vendor uses LED lighting instead of incandescent lighting in his ice cream freezer, the cost of freezing the icecream will decrease because he is not using gasoline to generate the electricity to melt the icecream that he then has to use more gas for to run the condensor on the freezer to remove the heat that his engine is working to dump into the ice cream.
I swapped out my ‘heat bulbs’ for CFC and later, LEDs.
Saved a ton on my electric bill.
Engineered obsolescence is a thing. There is a lightbulb burning in a Californian Fire House for 116 years. It’s dimmer than it was when it was originally installed, but it’s burned all those years with only a 22 minute rest when the fire house was moved. The company who made that bulb partnered up with three other bulb manufacturers and came up with a plan to make sure their bulbs burned out at around 1,000 hours, making sure there would always be a need. Engineered Obsolescence is most definitely a thing. One other example, I had a hydraulic cylinder that was in use for over thirty years. When we took it out because it had finally failed, I told the rebuild shop to put it back to OEM specs. They wouldn’t do it. Not good for business. Nowadays, I get maybe seven to ten years of service. Pathetic.
This idiot clearly didn't get a 1st year engieering understanding of the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics or he wouldn't have written this idiocy.
Joke [not so much]: [Texas A&M] Aggie principle of thermodynamics - there is not free lunch.
Seeing this thread i just went a bought a bunch of incandescent light bulbs
LED lights really are very good.
They have about the same “efficiency” (GE taught us to say “efficacy”) as high-pressure sodium vapor lamps had, but with white light (instead of that salmon-color that used to be ubiquitous in urban areas at night).
Until LEDs, high pressure sodium vapor was pretty much the best lumens-per-watt ratio you could get.
“If LED light bulbs are truly unquestionably superior, you would not need to pass a law stopping consumers from purchasing incandescent bulbs. Consumers would make the switch themselves to save money. Good ideas don’t require force, as they say.”
That’s the money line. The best working option will become the best selling option, all other things being equal.
I use 100 watt incadescent bulbs that cost me about 50 Cents each.
I have seen LED bulbs as high as $7 each—that is a 14 to 1 ratio.
When the curly bulbs came out, a friend just HAD TO HAVE THEM.
WHENEVER I was in his office-——I had IMMEDIATE HEADACHES-—and they flickered. I quit going there for any length of time.
I bought when I hope are enough regular bulbs for the rest of my life.
YEARS AGo-—I hd my Dad & his girlfriend visit me in So Calif. She was the biggest PITA I think I have ever known.
I went to work-—I came home—still in daylight—and picked them up to take them out to dinner.
She bitched all thru dinner, but that was to be expected.
We get back home-—AFTER dark—and I turn on the house interior lights.
WHAM-—I THINK I HAVE GONE BLIND-—I CANNOT SEE!!!
SHE HAD CHANGED OUT EVERY SINGLE 100 Watt bulb in the entire house for 40 Watt bulbs!!!!!!!!!!
I am very near sighted-—I KNOW what light I NEED.
That whole incident led to an hours long fight & I threw her out of my house-—forever. Dd finally calmed me down, as they were leaving the net day-—but it was the LAST time they were here.
SHE also RE_ARRANGED ALL my living room furniture one day.
I lived in EARTHQUAKE Country-—I never changed the furniture.
Some well-connected bums made money from the LED scam. Just like in every other “green” business venture on this planet. Freon, etc.
I like the writer’s logic technique. Thanks for posting.
“LED lights are not more efficient in a meaningful economic sense”
What other sense of efficiency is there?