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Why LEDs Don't Beat CFLs Even Though They Should
TaeKwonDood writes "LEDs don't beat CFLs in the home yet, but it's not simply because PG&E is getting rich making people feel like they are helping the environment buying CFLs made in China that are shipped to the US using a lot more fossil fuels than they save. It's a problem of indication versus illumination. However, some new discoveries are going to change all that."
It refers to the color temperature.
Just call them "iLED's" or some such and stupid rich people will buy them by the thousands and the price will drop.
Fixed that for you.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
I can't imagine hitting the weight limit of a container with any kind of light bulb.
What about HEAVY bulbs?
BADDUMM TISH!
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Did you just bring a car analogy to a lighting thread?
You're hereby banned from analogies.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
Just make sure to keep them away from the HOT water HEATER....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
just last week I spent about ten minutes walking up close to some and then backing off to see how the view changed.
You don't get out much, do you?
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Can you prove this theory of yours?
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?