I'm with you - I'll be atlernately sitting and with the shades drawn knitting in my rocker by the light of my contraband light or out on the stoop, in my rocker again, shotgun across my lap, protecting my motion detector porch light.
Posted on 11/11/2007 7:20:25 PM PST by Westlander
If U.S. lawmakers have their way, the lights may soon go out on Thomas Edison's greatest invention -- the incandescent light bulb. The 19th-century inventor brought illumination to the world's fingertips, but according to Congress, his invention isn't efficient enough for an age anxious about energy supplies.
"Only 10% of the power used by today's incandescent bulbs is emitted as light, while the other 90% is released as heat," Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said when she introduced her legislation to ban standard light bulbs.
To eliminate this waste, Harman has proposed legislation that would effectively eliminate incandescent light bulbs from store shelves nationwide as early as 2012.
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When my grand daughter lived here full time we used the same computer to post at F.R. If one of us failed to log off when we were through, it made for some down right funny posts. Especially when I mentioned my wife only to discover that I was posting from Holly_Ps account.
Bully for you. This article is about Democrat politicians mandating that we ALL march to that beat. No choice in light bulb. Next is toilet paper. They already demand we use low flow toilets. What next?
This is NOT about light bulbs
This is about another suspension of our individual rights = another end run around Capitalism in favor of Communism - for the common good.
I've seen this mindset coming for decades - the government schools have eliminated the teaching of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and our form of free enterprise while denigrating Capitalism as evil - and now people don't even realize they are being led, step by slow step, into Communism...
Too many people pat themselves on the back feeling not only are they smarter that the average bear but that they are so right, everyone else should be MADE to follow their superior example.
It's supposed to be a free county. If I want to keep my motion detector lights inside and the one outside that keeps me from tripping over things - that should be MY RIGHT...and all the superior people can feel even more superior, laughing at the dumb old lady
Immigrants send $$$ overseas too. They wire it home and then apply for government handouts because they are poor (by choice).
Want to cut off Islamic Supremacist terrorist funding? Cut off the head of the snake.
India and China will be paying every dollar that we are no longer sending to those nations. Better to get them to change their dreams of theocratic rule.
What do you do with the heat from your oven?
My neighbor’s kids’ school had a mercury spill a few weeks back. Just a little one, yet they took the shoes from 10 of their classmates and destroyed them and the CLOTHES of one of the teachers. She was sitting in her classroom in just one of those paper robes. Poor thing.
The HazMat Team came out; no one was allowed to go back in to the school for the rest of the week!
And they want us to have LIGHT BULBS in our homes with this stuff? Give me a freakin’ break! Yes, I have been known to break a light bulb or two.
Beside the fact that I hate fluorescent lighting-—my eyes get extremely red (a very attractive look), I don’t want something that is going to be such a pain in the butt to dispose of.
I am making like Nancy Reagan and JUST SAYIN’ NO!! ;^)
It affects us on a subconcious level. We may "adjust" for the color shift and the flicker and tune out the buzz but it is there all the same. (audio/vidio) Recoding equipment will pick it up though.
But other than that it is "the same". < /s >
I cook. When did that become weird?
Yep, that awful stuff that used to be in thermometers that I and a gazillion other kids used to break and play with.
I am 62 years old now but I'm convinced that sometime in the next 40 years or so I will die.
But there are a myriad of ways to cut back on energy - an people could be educated on them - without being forced
Of course there would no new stockholders waiting impatiently for people to buy a product as there's no specific "product" involved
For example, I have an electric stove. I turn the burner off an average of 1 minute before the pan is ready to come off the stove. The residual heat finishes the job.
Now say that's done 5 x's a day - in a years time, that would save over 30 hours of electricity (1-2 weeks of cooking)- and a stove burner uses a whomping more energy per minute than a light bulb.
In the winter, when I have my wood stove going, I have a large 'tea' kettle on it, providing plenty of hot water for the days dishes and washing up, etc. Again, much more saving, electricity wise that a light bulb.
I very ofter cook once, eat twice or more. That is, While cooking, I'll double the recipe and have a second meal for another day. Two meals for the energy cost of one.
Often at night, in the winter, especially if not running the wood stove, I will burn my kerosene lamps. I like them for one thing. If I'm just watching TV, especially, I don't need bright lights. BUT the VERY hot heat coming constantly from the chimneys cuts WAY down on how often the furnace turns on. Betcha I'm saving a hellava lot more energy than many people who pride themselves because of their new bulbs...Hmmm - maybe I should demand laws be passed so that EVERYone do as I do - after all, it's not like it's still a free country
Yeah, but what about when you drop one accidentally? Doesn’t is release mercury gas?
I'm with you - I'll be atlernately sitting and with the shades drawn knitting in my rocker by the light of my contraband light or out on the stoop, in my rocker again, shotgun across my lap, protecting my motion detector porch light.
Thank the Dims Dems. Fascism reigns.
Sign me up too :-).
Please don’t send the GOOBERMENT into our homes and force
us to use communist slave made junk.
In return I won't petition them to come into your home and
force you to eat shrimp cocktails laden with the trichlor, gallium and arsenic
the commies are dumping into your Wal-Mart food.
I'm stocking up on the "old" bulbs - I kid you not. and I have plenty of lamps to last my lifetime - so don't have to worry about the restrictions on light fixtures coming that wont run anything over a 60 watt ...
“For example, I have an electric stove. I turn the burner off an average of 1 minute before the pan is ready to come off the stove. The residual heat finishes the job.”
Having a 100 million households cooking is inefficient, We have the technology and the transportation infrastructure available that we could prepare all of our foods at processing plants.
Food that did not need to be cooked by the individual yet supplied all the nutrition requirements, in other words a more advanced version of our present energy bars would be very efficient.
The media could promote the food and Hollywood could feature it in a popular film to make the public enthusiastic about eating it.
Better processing would also allow us to use some products in the recipes that are presently considered waste, or not currently used in food production.
Isn’t that a wonderful idea?
#6 & #7 is a start. More in depth searching tommorrow. Curious if the ballast heats up differently between pin type and screw in.
http://www.emtfsask.ca/pdfs/compactfluoresl.pdf
Well, let's see. For one thing, I can't see why the 'enviro-nazis' would be for them, there an environmental hazard - containing mercury - and all the precautions of cleaning up a hazardous waste spill if one is broken...not to mention the dispoable process...in glass jars with rubber seals, etc, etc (But no problem. It 'snot like anyone EVER breaks a light bulb in their house)
That said - it may be "inevitable" - but that's for the free market to decide - not the government.
If I want, or don't want, to use the new bulbs, that's MY decision, not YOURS -
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