Those will look beautiful in my chandelier - not.
Let us not light an incandescent lamp rather than curse the darkness. Let us instead revel in darkness and forbid that accursed illumination like the people of that worker’s paradise, North Korea.
And as Rush has said, we turn the lights on in the dark when it’s colder out. Why not get rid of life? It has been known to create generate heat.
When incandescent bulbs are outlawed... only I will have incandescent light bulbs ;-).
I have a flourescent light outside my front door just as a test. It takes about 5 minutes for it to get to full light right now and it’s barely reached zero. It will be interesting to see how it acts when the temp. drops.
Interesting the shape of the new bulbs resembles a screw.
While I use CFLs in most locations of the house, I really think Ms. Harman is out to lunch...
After all, her husband - Sidney Harman, founder of Harman Industries (Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Proceed, Revel, and a bunch of other audio brands) - made his fortune on tube amps (about 5% efficient). And his speakers are - at best - 2% efficient (usually 0.2-0.5%).
If we want to save some electricity, how about Jane turn to her husband and enforce Harman simply doubling the efficiency of all their stereo equipment?
How many bureaucrats does it take to change a light bulb?
The answer is to have fixtures with the ballast in them instead of the bulb, like standard fluorescent fixtures. The ballast can be beefier and cooled better and all you need to replace is the bulb and not a bulb and ballast every time one burns out. The downside is new fixtures will need installed and they are more expensive although this will make the bulbs cheaper.
Another thing to consider is Power Factor. See this:
when Al and Tipper start using the fluorescent bulbs in the lamps by their bed and in their dining room chandelier, I’ll begin to think about using them.
I’ve been switching each time an incandescent bulb burns out. The CFL’s work fine. I bought one that had a harsh light but that was my mistake in not reading the label carefully. With that one exception, I can’t tell a difference in light quality. The big plus for me is that I’ve been able to step up the lumens in a number of places.
Harman can shove it, as Tereza Heinz would say.
I’m generally very happy with CFL lamps. I have had only one go bad, and that was one that runs 24/7 as a night light. It’s replacement now has about 6000 hours on it. My only complaints are that some of them produce annoying RF interference, and there are clearance problems in some older lamps.
Politicians are stupid. These bulbs don’t work in refrigerators or stoves. There are no “night light” compact fluorescent bulbs. They don’t fit in all old fixtures.
The cost of disposal is conveniently passed over, but we all know that the politicians will sooner or later have to impose a disposal tax.
I take it back. Politicians are not stupid. They are fascists.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/led_bulb_replac.php
The incandescent bulb will be killed by “free trade” and globalist corruption.
I would much rather see legislation to BAN DEMOCRATS.
So soon this curly french fry thing will appear over a comic strip character that has an idea?