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The Light Bulb That Can Change the World
An anonymous reader writes to tell us FastCompany is reporting on the latest and greatest version of the compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL). While CFLs of the past may have been efficient, they certainly were not effective. However, according to the article, CFLs have come as far as cell phones have since the mid 80s while still maintaining that high efficiency. From the article: "if every one of 110 million American households bought just one [CFL], took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary 60-watt bulb, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people. One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island. In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads."
Hey, where have you been living? These have been arround for 20 years and have become more effecient all the time. For anybody _not_ using them should be very ashamed by now for wasting energy for many years. I guess this is a US thing. (North-/west-)Europe has been aware of these energy savers and been using them for a loooong timg.
I tell you that there is a very wide range of CFL 'warmths'.
I also tell you that I read a lot, and the right ones make reading easier on the eyes.
Stupid selfish bastard.
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Stupid selfish bastard. - wow. That's a nice way to carry a conversation. Feeling a bit Flamebaitish today, are we? That kind of a statement generates this kind of a reply: fuck you too.
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My maintenance fee is 480$/mo, all included. Why in the Universe would I care about extra power consumption? I am overpaying as is.
You can't handle the truth.
There was never a people in all of history so interested in shooting themselves in the foot, than the American working class. They waste money on crap that nobody with an ounce of sense would buy. They get gargantuan vehicles that will cost them more money than they will ever have (and then bitch about the cost of fuelling the behemoth in question). They vote for leaders whose openly stated plan is to deprive them of their social safety net, their jobs, and their rights. It's mystifying. The American working class is the best argument for reproduction licenses that require an IQ test to pass.
I changed all of my bulbs to CFL's, but not for the "enviroment".....I HATE changing burned out bulbs, which, as we all know, go out at the worst time. I changed them so I don't have to change them for a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGG time. Global warming is a bunch of hogwash anyway. Data from so called "experts" is only 50 years worth, AT BEST.....which is what in the grand scheme of things? A BLINK in the history of the earth! Plus, the OUTPUT from the sun has been on the increase for years.......hello? hotter sun = hotter earth? Everyone crying about the icecaps melting which will cause the sea level to rise. Well, try this trick. Fill a glass with water with ice cubes. Fill it RIGHT TO the edge. Now, let the ice melt and see if the water runs over the top of the glass.......buzzzzz....it won't! The melting ice will displace the volume and weight of the solid when it becomes a liquid. Once again, more scare tactics of the looney left anti-capitalist, anti-western, anti-American idiots. I know, socialism will really really work, it just hasn't been tried by the right people yet........LOL!
Nope.
They die not of the heat - but of not being acclimated to the heat. (I grew up in Florida - where the conditions are far worse because of the humidity, even though the temperature is lower. I know whereof I speak.)
Again, that's not because of the heat - but because of your failure to acclimate yourself to the heat. I've spent *weeks* sleeping with my bedroom temp in the 90's.
Right. That's why nobody lived in Arizona (or Florida, or South Georgia, or Texas) before the invention of air conditioning.