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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.
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.