Posted on 07/12/2009 12:15:29 AM PDT by newbie2008
The Department of Energy and Climate Change admits that it is "concerned" at the mailings – described yesterday by campaigners as a waste – and has agreed to ban them. But it has decided not so do so for another six months to allow even more of the bulbs to be sent out - even though every home in the country has already, on average, received at least eight of them. Experts believe that vast numbers of the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) bulb are stored away, never to be used, and thrown out to end up in landfill, where they pose a potential pollution problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
sheesh when did they rename their DOE that??
What a joke.
The Englander and his Farcical Habitat, from the Land of Eng
and if they try to use bayonet-to-screw adapters, the long ugly things will be even longer.
As usual government programs are clossal waste of time and energy and show how very stupid people operate.
My guess would be that it’s because Edison wasn’t British.
What’s even sillier is a mix of the types, in a similar size to boot.
The bayonet has the virtue of being vibration proof. Maybe that’s why it’s depicted in a room with loudspeakers in it. I’ve seen the vibration from loud sound cause an upside-down CFL bulb on the other side of the wall to unscrew itself repeatedly. Incandescents, being lighter, would be less prone to that. None of this explains, though, why older and poorer houses would be more likely to have the “premium” bayonet socket.
It’s the same reason they drive on the left hand side of the road. They’ve always done it that way, and it’s too difficult to change.
Actually, we in the U.S. will be forced to use these bulbs if we allow Cap & Trade.
My brother installed some of these bulbs in the basement ceiling of my mother’s house some years ago. I took them out. What irritated me was that every time I flipped a switch, it took a while for the bulbs to turn on. Sorry, but I prefer my bulbs to turn on immediately.
How about gas caps? My wife hates them and generally just snugs the cap in rather than snapping the detents in the bayonet fitting. I suppose one can argue that when correctly seated bayonet fittings make a firmer contact, but if a good percentage of the users are just going to leave the gas cap loose, the solution is much worse than the problem.
I think these merucry-laden corkscrew bulbs are going to be a (pun intended) flash in the pan (I hope Al Gore is heavily invested in them).
Governments everywhere are run by busybody do-gooders without a lick of common sense. Tell me again why I want these people in charge of my health...
(btw, the above-mentioned LED bulbs are rated at 30,000 hours, which is 3.4 years of continuous use)
Where do you get them, and do they come in higher power (lumens)?
Who in their right mind would make household lamps with a bayonet base.People who can get the lamps changed faster before the government inspects your home for proper lamp installation.
Who in their right mind would make household lamps with a bayonet base?
The Chinese copy of Lucas Electrics.....
True story: the military bought map light bulbs from Lucas for their aircraft, the bayonet studs on said light were supposed to be standardised and they were, they only worked in the Lucas Map lights on the AV-8A Harrier manufactured in England.
To those of us who have Owned British Vehicles...http://www.hermit.cc/mania/tmc/articles/lucas.htm
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