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R.I.P. Light Bulb :(

Wednesday, January 01 2014 @ 04:09 pm UTC
Contributed by: masodo
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R.I.P. Light Bulb :(

Authored by: masodo on Thursday, January 02 2014 @ 07:26 pm UTC

I certainly concur with your sentiments gatorwoman and thank you for offering such a thoughtful comment.

I have always been an advocate for energy conservation but find this whole incandescent vs florescent lighting topic just flat-out wrong-headed. I really don't know the complete story behind the dictate to ban tungsten lightning at the manufacturing/consumer level but find this very disturbing. If a product offers true advantages then, it seems to me the superior product will succeed and the inferior product will fail.

This is nothing less than a slap in the face of free market economics. If this travesty is allowed to stand one can easily imagine other products and services that might be summarily outlawed because of flawed logic and manipulative policy makers. This is just the sort of thing that would have been unimaginable 15 years ago. The take-away here is "get ready - the days of the internal combustion engine are truly numbered" - mark my words.

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R.I.P. Light Bulb :(

Authored by: Vijay (Anonymous User) on Saturday, January 04 2014 @ 09:32 am UTC

I suppose now they will have to use the new energy saving light bulbs. Cue strange alien glowing thing that isn't quite as bright and flickers all the time, but at least your ideas won't drain the electricity supply. No foot-long utility bills either.

Vijay

R.I.P. Light Bulb :(

Authored by: masodo on Saturday, January 04 2014 @ 02:05 pm UTC

Hi Vijay - welcome back :D

I have been wanting to do a video where somebody "has a great idea" and instead of the cliche light bulb, a florescent coil bulb (as illustrated above)appears overhead... It should flicker and blink then light dimly and slowly glow brighter (with a greenish hue.) The person responsible for the idea would be looking annoyed at the manifestation occurring above him and finally, as the bulb vanishes in a puff of smoke... our thinker utters "Screw it!"

[smiley::S]

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R.I.P. Light Bulb :(

Authored by: masodo on Thursday, January 09 2014 @ 06:44 am UTC

I heard (a while back) about a company in Germany marketing "HeatBalls" to get around the EU light bulb ban. A quick check on Yahoo yealds a nice article from the Matt Bowles Archive.

Below is a quote from a Reuters Article that reports this bit of "brilliance" (with a link to that article):

German heatball wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban | Reuters (via)

Rotthaeuser has pledged to donate 30 cents of every heatball sold to saving the rainforest, which the 49-year-old sees as a better way of protecting the environment than investing in energy-saving lamps, which which contain toxic mercury.

I am sure there are many applications where incandescent bulbs would out-shine these CFL...

In addition to the Easy Bake Oven and Lava Lamp (thanks Dale - it needed to be said) I would never think of using a CFL in a conventional oven or refrigerator. And what about poor Crush the pet turtle? What shall become of him as he basks under the cold green glow of a CFL?

I really cannot imagine using a CFL in a photographic enlarger so I will be looking to hoard some for that (and the safe-lights while I'm at it.)

Check out those above links and thanks for the comments [smiley::D]

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