Posted on 04/25/2016 6:58:38 AM PDT by The_Victor
It is an efficiency-based standard.
believe that God was kind enough to not let our imagination exceed our grasp, that if we can imagine it then it can be done by us.
IOW, IT’S A LASER!..............................
I do NOT want my incandescent light bulbs to be more efficient. They warm my home in the winter.
He even said so, in Genesis 11:6:
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Obama’s Green Jobs Factories are empty
Actually, Thomas Edison invented a better incandescent light bulb a long time ago. I remember when I visited his lab as a kid they had original light bulbs still burning 75+ years on. I think he just realized that if the light bulb never burned out, you could only sell one set to each customer, so he included “planned obsolescence” in his product.
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I don’t know what you were told but the above is simply not true, it is true that some of the bulbs his company made are still burning in his labs but they are running on a greatly reduced voltage, they produce very little light, only s slight glow.
The money making part of Edison’s light bulb was to sell electricity. He reasoned if he sold the light bulb cheaply enough everyone would buy it and then buy electricity every month to run it.
Thomas believed in the opposite of planned obsolescence, he tirelessly tested all his commercial products to get the most life he could from them. Many of his products had competitors and one of his selling points were always the extended life of the “Edison” products.
The hallmark of liberalism is telling other people how they should live their lives.........and then forcing them to do so................
For crying out loud...don’t tell anyone that you have a large supply of that which is now FORBIDDEN. You will wake up to a knocking at your door.
Mine are hidden away, and strangely, the contraband in my light fixtures seem to be lasting quite a bit longer than in the past. Can’t figure why, but I’m not changing them even one a month. No complaints.
I like incadecents . I will use incadecents . The jack hole that introduced the ban ought IMHO be publically castrated .
One of the big problems with incandescent bulbs was caused by the industry it’s self.
Early incandescent bulbs had a vacuum inside the glass envelop. about 3 decades ago, they found that they were much cheaper to manufacture, if instead of evacuating the bulb, they filled it with the inert gas Argon.
The vacuum of course doesn’t conduct heat, leaving it inside the bulb. Argon conducts the heat to the outside of the bulb, raising the temperature of the glass and wasting it into the environment.
This was the point where incandescent bulbs became very much less efficient.
This is the same government that thinks they know best about our healthcare.
And we have let them get away with it.
Why can’t people who have their own well and septic systems use 5 gallon flush toilets? Fascism.
I have had an LED fade waaaaay ahead of schedule and another simply not work.
But I hope the rest last as long as they are supposed to.
Too bad they won’t work in my EasyBake Oven, though.
Unfortunately, I only bought enough to last until about 2020.
Some of you on Freep gave me a link to hotel quality bulbs made by FEIT.
I bought a bunch before the ban. Ten year hotel versions. Amazing. Haven’t replaced one of them yet.
I often wonder how much Mercury was dumped into the environment by all those CFL bulbs.
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