AHHH... Brown 25.
Posted on 09/10/2010 9:48:36 AM PDT by usalady
There is a good reason that Obama no longer touts his "Green Jobs" and "Green Energy" programs. The potential for green jobs to increase under the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Stimulus program continues to turn a deeper color of brown every day.
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Our last lightbulb factory closed. Now all of our lighting, incan, Gorebulb, LED, will come from overseas.
Go Green Jobs! Go China!
Geez, simply a grant to his constituents...has nothing to do with helping the economy. Part of the Chicago way...I’d guess.
Actually, it was the last INCANDESCENT light bulb factory.
The plan was never for Americans to benefit from it because Obama thinks that Americans are raping poor countries to get rich. It was ALWAYS just another wealth transfer scheme.
I don’t think we have Gorebulb factories here. Some plants make the long-tube fluoros.
But no more incans made here.
AHHH... Brown 25.
Sorry I missed it. I was broken-down by the side of the road when my electric car’s battery went flat.
The good news is that a way has been discovered to make LEDs put out genuinely white light. So, in the end you probably won’t miss your incandescent bulbs anyway.
There once was a company called ‘Ultra Cell’ that got alot of government money to develope fuel cells. They were supposed to employ over 300 people.
Last month they just closed. Ted Strickland says he’ll try to find them and get back some of the state money they were given to operate.
Can you say, “Grifters”? I knew you could.
I’ve been buying LED lights. They have a long way to go before they can replace even a 60W incan.
Chromacity is an issue, as is brightness, and most flicker at 120 Hz (an incan and fluorescent are fairly slow to respond so they smooth the flicher. An LED responds in microseconds). And the cost!
I have a reading light that puts out an 18” circle at a distance of 4’. It’s very blue, probably 6500K, and cost $28. it only lights up the book, it can’t light the room.
My hall chandelier got an LED makeover for $15/bulb. I spent close to $80 to replace $12 worth of incans, and while the color is OK, the bunch of them is not as bright as a single incan that got replaced. It will burn dimly for 100,000 hours, though! The energy savings is only 2/3.
They’ll be a niche market for a dozen years, imo.
Solar only works where you have almost constant sunlight - and at best is only 20% efficient. With a $15K investment and 50% tax credit [which doesn’t save you $7500], it takes something like 7-10 years to break even on the deal. And, solar requires maintenance [monthly cleaning] - so, you better have convenient access if the panels are on your roof.
Anything green that could be profitably made... could be more profitably made outside the US where unions are not an issue.
The unemployed will miss the fact that we don’t make incandescent lamps here any longer, thanks to government. Nor do we make the not-ready-for-prime-time LEDs here.
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just where did all those green jobs go? or rather the green money?
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