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Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
While we all know from reading the internets that Wal-Mart is irredeemably evil, the world's largest retailer has committed to get compact fluorescent lightbulbs into 100 million homes this year. CFLs are found in only 6% of households today. These energy-saving bulbs use 75% less electricity than incandescents and produce far less greenhouse gas to manufacture and use. Wal-Mart seems determined to use its marketing prowess to do what hasn't successfully been done in the CFL's 25-year history: to convince consumers to pay more upfront for large savings over the product's lifetime.
...does it take to change your light bulbs?
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One to screw it in the socket, and two to lock the employees of the store that sold it in for the night.
I find that with my solar powered walkway lights, CF porchlights and the 1KW sodium (security) lamp over the driveway, I can afford to completely prevent my neighbors' kid from using the telescope he got for Christmas.
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Seriously, where are we supposed to find these "women"? Are they over on Usenet? Fark? Digg? Homestarrunner? Where?
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It's not that Walmart is suddenly "good" for selling compact fluorescent bulbs.
It's that compact fluorescent bulbs are now irredeemably evil.
At 6AM in the morning, the delay is a welcome "feature".
Most Wal Mart customers don't read much anyway. So for them it's not a problem.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Clearly this is a move by WalMart to boost its holdings in the waning mercury market.
Women are like electronics: you don't know how damaged they are until you try to turn them on.
That's because they're brighter (the CFL--not the woman). We know from experience that women find these two things odious:
Most women expend incredible amounts of time and effort to avoid being seen, either by altering their appearance cosmetically to mask or otherwise obfuscate their features or by insisting that you turn the lights off during sex.
When confronted by a well lit area, a reasonably intelligent woman, upon realizing that you installed the new light, will complain that she "doesn't like the way it throws off light," thereby marrying her distrust toward optical clarity with her natural prejudice against new technology.
Heat is heat, its all kinetic energy.
Obviously you are very knowledgeable on the subject, using big words like that.
Break them open first to release the mercury vapor. Then they aren't toxic anymore and you can just throw them away! :)
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To compensate for the light delay I show up 2 seconds late to work everyday day and exclaim, "darn lights didn't work I couldn't see anything." So far it's been 2 months and no one has noticed that I've skimped total of 1 minute and 20 seconds of work.
Of course here in So Cal we don't get many, er, elements. Hey, how's that weather, Colorado?
Busy making your water so you don't die.
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You feel a lot more comfortable if you have warm feet, even if the actual room-temperature is slightly lower than normal
I noticed this too. Instead of installing underfloor heating everywhere I just spent $10 on some nice slippers.