Posted on 03/19/2008 5:20:17 PM PDT by yorkie
Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry officials and some environmental scientists, who warn that the bulbs poisonous innards pose a bigger threat to health and the environment than previously thought.
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Modern CFLs do not.
Yes, but the fact in your example is is that the market made that change happen, not a forced government policy. It’s one thing when people (the market) wants a better processor voluntarily, it’d be another thing when government says ‘you can no longer buy Pentium 1’s anymore’ and the Pentium II’s are still very expensive because the market hasn’t adjusted their prices down naturally....
Yes, I still have small incandescents in our kitchen lamp on our dimmer switch. Our fridge and oven have incandescents.
I am not yet ready to pay what they are asking for CFLs that work on dimmer switch circuits. I may just not even get them and get the white diode lights instead when their prices come down.
This flickers around 20kHz.
I am a retired maintenance mechanic with a strong electrical background BTW so I know all about bulbs. I simply buy the brass base incandescents for about 50 cents a box more and no problem. The 128/256 voltage was a far larger issue on my electric bill and bank account in general due to replacing things like water heater elements and pumps etc than my lightbulbs ever were.
We’re all waiting for LED bulbs. Hopefully soon.
The knock on dimmable CFLs is that they do not dim 0%-100%, but only down to about 30%.
I’ve only read this, and don’t know if (a) it’s true or (b) how much of an issue it truly is.
Other ideas:
1. Force home owner associations to allow solar panels for anyone who wants them up (greens, anybody in Arizona)
2. Stop tearing down hydro dams for fish spawns. (Maine has done a couple.)
3. Outlaw cities outlawing home offices. People’s eBay businesses, home offices for law or writing or programming, are technically illegal due to zoning (because businesses want rent) Want to save gas and energy? Let people work from home.
4. Encourage home schooling. Less transportation needed.
5. Get rid of limits on geothermal heating/cooling/power systems - and let people build.
We were running hot her for many years....~129Hz.
We only had to call once. They actually apologized (!) after fixing it.
Snopes attempts to cast John Kerry's egregious anti-Military voting record in a positive light.
"The credibility that they've established is based on the laziness of reporters who have used them as a source."
if any of y'all have other examples of Snopes having a slant, please let me know!
Hooray! Hooray! Trashes properly those PC jakes at Snopes!I've visited the Snopes site several times over the last few years, generally from links in mail and news discussions and, while there's nothing explicitly bogus about the site, there's something about the tone which I've found consistently off-putting. It's reminiscent of the too-smug, overly-glib style of the Skeptical Inquirer which caused me to let my subscription lapse in the early 80's and, perhaps, set in motion my long migration from CSICOP to Psi-perp.Unlike NASA, [SNOPES] did not identify the source (although it had been identified on newsgroups long before Snopes posted this article), and the Snopes commentary itself contains two or three factual errors, depending on how you read it, and misses three of the most obvious things which identify the picture as not taken from Columbia.
Snopes posts 17 truths to shove an 18th lie in the mix. (IN MY OPINION!)
Snopes is the most prestigious of all urban legend research sites. But is it biased to the left? Some, including yours truly, believe so. However, judge for yourself.
It's what called a back door rate increase LOL. Seriously that is way too high for any house. 120/240 should be a mandatory upper voltage limit allowed for residential service drops. Anything above that is waste as it generates heat and nothing more.
I did fine till TVA ran a 180,000 volt transmission on my place which feeds the new substation my utility built two miles away. When the line was finished the utility to pay for it jacked up the voltage from 115/230 to nearly 130/260. They can't say it's harmless as it leaves no room for surges. Things began burning up and I began checking. At first I thought my Volt/ohm meter was out of whack till I used a second one that confirmed the problem. The utility director tried to tell me it was for future expansion etc and I said B.S. come and fix it or I go public.
When I collide with them --- you wouldn't even believe what happens... :)
Now all the fluorescents I buy produce rock solid light, and are as quiet as my pet rock ;).
If those who still get annoyed by fluorescent didn't mind stating, I'd be interested to know if they were younger than say 40 or 45 years old. I just turned 60 myself.
~129 volts is hot.
<grin>
None.
This is a recurring theme in the reasons people from southern latitudes like them.
For those of us practically on the Canadian Border, though, days are considerably shorter in the winter, the time of the year the "waste" heat is a welcome addition to our homes, and much longer in the summer, (IOW, who needs to turn the lights on?) in the summer. The 'extra heat' isn't wasted here, and does not work against the Air Conditioning when we do run it.
The only problem is getting the kids to bed at 11:00 PM in July while the sun is still shining.
("But Papa! It isn't even dark outside!")
So, as usual, we are stuck with a one-size-fits-all solution for a problem we did not have. YMMV
Mandrake! plug in these halogen flood lights!
“Just build more nukes already.”
So great i am making it my tagline.
You whipper-snapper, you! ;-)
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