I light bulb that is never switched off has less wear and tear. It also has a sturdier fulfillment. Our businesses have no reason to make things that last. When people think of pollution, they should consider all those companies who make things designed to break. They are the biggest polluters.
But I don’t believe it has never been off. Our electric grid is not that perfect anywhere. So its been off. Maybe its never been turned off but it can’ have been on the whole time.
I say the same thing all the time. Raw materials get shipped to China, made into low quality products that last 3-7 years and then they get shipped back, sold at walmart and then get buried in our landfills.
All the transport plus the short life span = 20 times emissions as making something here that lasts a lifetime.
Buy a rebuilt starter or alternator in the last 20 years? It was taken from your local parts store to a central location to be shipped to Mexico for less than 30 minutes of labor to be performed. Chinese components are put in. Then it gets shipped back here and distributed throughout the nation to your local parts store.
Every decent sized town used to have an auto electric shop that did that on the spot.
Which one's greener?
Yeah, everything is political because the politicians have wrecked everything.
You ask if it was ever off.
It is at a fire station. Fire stations have backup power usually a diesel generator so the station can respond to any emergency.
it's in a fire station. they probably have UPS.
Filament?