Change: Traditional frosted bulbs (left) are to be replaced
by energy-saving bulbs
Posted on 05/09/2009 6:37:35 AM PDT by yankeedame
... The EU is banning every type of opaque 'incandescent' bulb from September, from the conventional 100 and 60 watt 'pearl' bulbs to the more specialised frosted 25 watt and 40 watt bulbs shaped like candles and golf balls.
At the same time clear 100 watt bulbs will also vanish. Instead, shoppers will have to buy low energy compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) or low energy halogen bulbs.
Change: Traditional frosted bulbs (left) are to be replaced
by energy-saving bulbs
The rest of the clear bulbs will be phased out from September 2010.
The Government says frosted bulbs were in the first wave of the ban because they were 'the least efficient of all incandescent bulbs'.
[snip]
'Consumers will realise in the end that the alternatives provide substantial savings and have equivalent light quality to incandescents,' a spokesman said. Major retailers began to stop selling 100 watt bulbs under a voluntary agreement at the start of the year.... The voluntary ban follows the withdrawal of 150 watt bulbs last year.
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How would you like to live in a country where the government has so much power that it can even mandate the type of light bulbs you must buy? That is where we are headed, friends, unless we act to stop it now.
So it's not true that you have to have CFLs.
They've infiltrated the military's favorite gripe ... and by dictating what food we eat ,, the "what color?" will be next.
Everytime I go to the grocery store or a dollar store, I pick up a pack of bulbs (not GE, though)and store them away in my garage. I figure in a couple of years we won’t be able to buy them anymore. They will be like cigarettes in Sing Sing. Stockpile...yes!
I see how it works, instead of just taxing the energy to let the free market decide what to get, they ruin the free market first then screw you on energy anyway.
BTTT!
I mean ... the turbines turning at X rpm still turn at X rpm, right?
And isn't THAT where the energy consumption is?
"Back 'er down to X, Joe ... they've sold out at WalMart"
ditto.
I don't imagine that it's much different than living in a country the tells you how much water is enough for a flush.
Already happening here. WalMart used to have 100 watt GE bulbs. Now they carry 97 Mexican made bulbs and you have to hunt for them.
I found a few 100 watt GE bulbs at Tractor Supply co near here. I use them to keep my well house warm in winter, and to adjust light along with a fluescent, when I am doing a oil painting.
I have a stash that may last 10 years if I use four bulbs a year.
Now frosted incadescent lightbulbs are to be banned by EU in favour of mercury-bearing hazmat bulbs.
I needed to correct the title.
One:they're *all* made in China
Two:they contain mercury (which is about the only "environmental hazard" I really *am* afraid of).
***The same idiots who scream about “mercury contamination” in their children’s innoculations causing autism will replace every incandescent light bulb in their house with mercury containing compact fluorescent light bulbs without saying a thing.***
I noticed on a package of fluorescent bulbs that there are the letters HG (Mercury). No other warnings about disposal. I hav several that burned out. What do I do with them?
Send them to your congresscritter.
Not being in the electricity generating business I know nothing about this stuff but one would think that if electricity demand drops,say,10% during a particular period one would think that they could take one or more generators off line (that is...shut them down) or,perhaps,slow them down until demand increases...thus using less oil,gas,coal,etc than they otherwise would have.
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