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GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory
pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the US is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s. What made the plant vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014 but rather than setting off a boom in the US manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas. GE developed a plan to see what it would take to retrofit a plant that makes traditional incandescents into one that makes CFLs but even with a $40 million investment the new plant's CFLs would have cost about 50 percent more than those from China. 'Everybody's jumping on the green bandwagon,' says Pat Doyle, 54, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. But 'we've been sold out. First sold out by the government. Then sold out by GE.'"
This is a great solution to the 'too many patents' problem in a story earlier today. No lightbulbs means no ideas right?
unborn fetuses
Thank goodness the born fetuses are safe.
probably from all the mercury poisoning
we need to implement DC lighting circuits in homes and the heatsinks and fans go away. the reason for the HSF is to convert the AC to DC.
Probably mercury poisoning.
I read the internet for the articles.
Wow, that's a badly wroded post. Preview, Naz, preview!
I hate printers.
Who cares? I'm not much of a ceiling fan anyway. The floors, on the other hand... I'm a big fan of those things. They allow me to walk around!
Last one out, please turn off the...
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lgw's law: you cannot make a comment criticizing spelling or grammar on the internet without that complaint post also containing a spelling or grammar mistake. This applies even when criticizing your own posts, of course. Also, as we say here: your an idiot.
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You're an idiot.