Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/03/2009 9:08:32 AM PDT by Signalman
"Fervently" is how America will henceforth engage in talks on global warming. So said the president's climate change negotiator Sunday in Germany, at a U.N. conference on reducing carbon emissions.
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A San Francisco -- naturally -- couple emerged from Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" incandescent with desire to think globally and act locally, in their home. So they replaced their incandescent bulbs with the compact fluorescents that Congress says must soon be ubiquitous. "Instead of having a satisfying green moment, however," the Times reported, "they wound up coping with a mess."
Although supposed to last 10,000 hours and save, the Times says, "as much as" $5.40 a year in electricity costs, some bulbs died within a few hours. Some experts, reports the Times, "blame the government for the quality problems," saying its push to cut the bulbs' prices prompted manufacturers to use inferior components.
Furthermore, some experts have written a guide saying the new bulbs require "a little insight and planning." The Times says that "may be an understatement."
The bulbs, says the Times, "do not do well in hot places with little airflow, like recessed ceiling fixtures," and some do not work "with dimmers or three-way sockets." And: "Be aware that compact fluorescents can take one to three minutes to reach full brightness. This is not a defect." Well, if you say so. Because all fluorescents contain mercury, a toxic metal, they must never be put in the trash, so Home Depot and other chains offer bins for disposing of dangerous bulbs. Driving to one of these disposal points might not entirely nullify the bulbs' environmental benefits. Besides, the Times summarizes the Environmental Protection Agency's helpful suggestions for coping with the environmental dangers caused when one of these environment-saving bulbs breaks:
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Speaking of dim bulbs...
Is “He Who Dines With Obama” trying to make us think he’s a conservative again?
I use a mixture and I’m glad to have the choice.
I use the cfl’s where the light is mostly on all the time. They stay bright, and last a long time and use less energy.
I use the incandescents where I flip the switch on and off a lot.
I throw any that go out in the trash, I feel the need to negate any environmental benefit from using them.
Until 2014 anyway, when you will no longer have that choice.
Personally, I hate the cfl’s. When we built our house we were using incandescents. The cfl’s cast a nasty tone to my interior paint. I’ll be stocking my closets. That is easier than repainting.
If they are gullible enough to buy into Al "the boob" Gore's movie they may not be someone who would know how to operate anything correctly.
try the 60 watt (uses 13 watts) feit electric “conserv-energy” brand from costco (or others)
the light looks just like an incandescent.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll check them out.
I heard Baraq on tv this morning from France telling the adoring crowd how auto pollution from Boston was causing the polar ice cap to melt.
What a crock........
I think its kind of comical that Brrack acts like he's an expert on EVERYTHING. Not a humble bone in his skinny little body.
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