I live in the south of New Zealand, and for 10 months of the year or more have thermostat controlled electric heating.
Any waste energy from a bulb will heat the house and the heaters will spend proportionately less time switched on. I.e. NO waste whatsoever.
Yet another good reason to let people decide - there are too many variables for a broad sweeping law like this to work.
Oh, and given this argument, all of a sudden the negative aspects of CFLs considerably outweigh their non-existent advantages. Therefore where I live CFLs have MORE reason to be banned than incandescents.
So where does the heat go then? if you can get rid of it from the cooler, then you can just get rid of it from the chip. My point is a piece of metal would cool until it warms up its self, then no more unless it was cooled. I can see the difference if it was working like they describe, but the thermal insulation between the two sides would be impossible (IANAPhysicist, but i doubt insulation like that, even a perfect vacuum, would work).
Hang on, what is the difference between this and a 2mm thick piece of sheet metal, except for the fact that the sheet metal is 100% efficient in moving heat from one side to the other as it uses 0 current, and produces the same result?
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I live in the south of New Zealand, and for 10 months of the year or more have thermostat controlled electric heating.
Any waste energy from a bulb will heat the house and the heaters will spend proportionately less time switched on. I.e. NO waste whatsoever.
Yet another good reason to let people decide - there are too many variables for a broad sweeping law like this to work.
Oh, and given this argument, all of a sudden the negative aspects of CFLs considerably outweigh their non-existent advantages. Therefore where I live CFLs have MORE reason to be banned than incandescents.
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So where does the heat go then? if you can get rid of it from the cooler, then you can just get rid of it from the chip. My point is a piece of metal would cool until it warms up its self, then no more unless it was cooled. I can see the difference if it was working like they describe, but the thermal insulation between the two sides would be impossible (IANAPhysicist, but i doubt insulation like that, even a perfect vacuum, would work).
Hang on, what is the difference between this and a 2mm thick piece of sheet metal, except for the fact that the sheet metal is 100% efficient in moving heat from one side to the other as it uses 0 current, and produces the same result?