I must have been unclear. What I mean was Mugabe gained power as the end result of colonialism.
Let the country go under a dictator, was he supposed to invade? Do you also blame the German Chancellor at the time and the Swedish King or are only American presidents supposed to prevent dictators ?
Sure, but letting his people get rid of him is better for everyone. We are not the world police, we are not going to make any friends by taking over yet another country.
No one likes an occupation. No one wants foreigners telling them how to run their nation.
Would they like us to build them power plants? Sure. Would they want us to give them running water? Of course. Do they want us forming their government for them the way we did in Afghanistan and Iraq? No way in hell.
Your first point is wrong. The CFL will last years longer.
Recycling costs me nothing. Dimming an incandescent to 75% its output means you get far less light. You are actually making them less efficient. Buy long life ones and just run lower rated bulbs. If you think this is a good idea, just use an electric stove element for light, lasts a long time.
How do you figure? They save power, manufacturing costs are lower since you need to replace them far less often and 1 milligram of mercury is not a huge issue in the rare case of breakage.
Is there some anti-science place you folks hangout and cook this crap up?
Something you and the rest of the drooling morons on that webpage probably don't know is that there is no ban on incandescents. Only on low efficiency lighting. So you can keep enjoying those that I linked far into the future.
...a lot of things. LED bulbs don't actually illuminate a room . They do a great job of illuminating a direction. Think of a laser beam. That's great when what you want to see is the LED bulb, but it's terrible when you want to see the rest of the room. And diffusers just don't work on point-source lights.
Wrong, they are pretty good these days. Try getting a new one.
CFL is even worse. Talk about a cradle-to-grave problem. They simply consume so much terrible stuff in manufacture and disposal that saving a few watts of power is insignificant in the long run. And of course, as the post suggests, you need a hazmat team to clean up a broken lightbulb. Wrong. They take very little power to make and over the lifetime save a huge amount of power. Just the fact that they last so much longer does that. An incandescent will cause the release of more mercury and "terrible stuff", since most of our power comes from coal. Also you do not need a hazmat team to clean up a little tiny bit, a couple drops, of elemental mercury.
But more than anything, wasting electricity is a good thing. We live in a capitalist society -- which has many advantages. The biggest one being that innovation comes from necessity. Saving 10% on your electricity bill makes the cost of electricity go up. Consuming 10 times as much electricity breeds innovation and makes the cost of electricity go down -- substantially.
Wrong. Saving 10% on your bill saves you 10% on your bill. It will not increase the cost of production. Using more will, as then we have to build more power plants.
At first I thought you were a liar, now I realize you are just an idiot.
The coal power plant powering that heater that happens to give off a little bit of light you keep using for the wrong purpose, releases more mercury than any CFL ever will. CFLs are far more efficient, hell you will make money using them as you will save more than they cost. Consumers are in general morons who will buy the cheapest fucking thing they can find.
A light should not be producing heat, if you want heat get a heat. Heating cord is available, but 90% of the time insulation is where you should be looking first. Again this is the idiot consumer trying the cheapest short term option at the cost of the longterm. No wonder most Americans are broke.
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I must have been unclear. What I mean was Mugabe gained power as the end result of colonialism.
Let the country go under a dictator, was he supposed to invade? Do you also blame the German Chancellor at the time and the Swedish King or are only American presidents supposed to prevent dictators ?
Sure, but letting his people get rid of him is better for everyone. We are not the world police, we are not going to make any friends by taking over yet another country.
Of course they don't then. Tive minutes after you fix the food and random death problems they will care.
No one likes an occupation.
No one wants foreigners telling them how to run their nation.
Would they like us to build them power plants? Sure. Would they want us to give them running water? Of course. Do they want us forming their government for them the way we did in Afghanistan and Iraq? No way in hell.
They would not have had freedom and security if they left the white folks in charge either. So other than non-sequitur what ideas have you got?
What do you mean validated?
Surprise, surprise, the new corporatist puppet has the same dance as the old one. What a fucking shock!
Colonialism gave us Robert Mugabe, Carter was just the one standing around at the time. Not saying he is blameless, just pointless to bring him up.
Honestly, what can we do?
If we topple Mugabe, we will be seen the same way the Iraqi's see us, as what we are, an occupying force.
The people themselves need to be the ones to secure their own freedom.
Yup, just as orange. Spend the extra money and get the sunlight ones.
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-70-Watt-Halogena-Energy-Saver/dp/B001FA07UW
No one says you have to use CFLs. These are incandescents that meet the efficiency requirements.
Running out of lithium?
Are you off your rocker?
Go to wikipedia and see just how much lithium there is.
Your first point is wrong. The CFL will last years longer.
Recycling costs me nothing. Dimming an incandescent to 75% its output means you get far less light. You are actually making them less efficient. Buy long life ones and just run lower rated bulbs. If you think this is a good idea, just use an electric stove element for light, lasts a long time.
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-40-Watt-Halogena-Energy-Saver/dp/B001FA07UM
Will be a lot brighter, maybe you can just use less of them.
How do you figure?
They save power, manufacturing costs are lower since you need to replace them far less often and 1 milligram of mercury is not a huge issue in the rare case of breakage.
Is there some anti-science place you folks hangout and cook this crap up?
What color do you want?
I like the philips sunlight ones.
Do you want natural light or that hideous orange incandescent glow?
Because you have never heard of halogen or LED?
If you can see the 100khz flicker I bet you could get that $1 million woo-woo prize James Randi is giving out.
Here is another light you can have and replace constantly.
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-72-Watt-EcoVantage-Light-Natural/dp/B001FA07UC
Something you and the rest of the drooling morons on that webpage probably don't know is that there is no ban on incandescents. Only on low efficiency lighting. So you can keep enjoying those that I linked far into the future.
No, just into the air you breathe. That is so much better.
They will still be happy you aren't using a heater for light. In California especially since you probably running the AC.
The small amount of mercury is nothing to bitch about if you eat tuna.
Incandescents are not being banned. Just low efficiency lights.
Lo and behold:
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-40-Watt-Halogena-Energy-Saver/dp/B001FA07UM
They are cheaper in the long term safe and do a great job. You are using tools wrong. Do you complain about your hammer when it fails to drive screws?
Use either cold starting CFLs or LEDs.
Yeah, coal power plants put out fairy farts and unicorn breath. No one dies due to the toxic shit they spew.
...a lot of things. LED bulbs don't actually illuminate a room . They do a great job of illuminating a direction. Think of a laser beam. That's great when what you want to see is the LED bulb, but it's terrible when you want to see the rest of the room. And diffusers just don't work on point-source lights.
Wrong, they are pretty good these days. Try getting a new one.
CFL is even worse. Talk about a cradle-to-grave problem. They simply consume so much terrible stuff in manufacture and disposal that saving a few watts of power is insignificant in the long run. And of course, as the post suggests, you need a hazmat team to clean up a broken lightbulb.
Wrong. They take very little power to make and over the lifetime save a huge amount of power. Just the fact that they last so much longer does that. An incandescent will cause the release of more mercury and "terrible stuff", since most of our power comes from coal. Also you do not need a hazmat team to clean up a little tiny bit, a couple drops, of elemental mercury.
But more than anything, wasting electricity is a good thing. We live in a capitalist society -- which has many advantages. The biggest one being that innovation comes from necessity. Saving 10% on your electricity bill makes the cost of electricity go up. Consuming 10 times as much electricity breeds innovation and makes the cost of electricity go down -- substantially.
Wrong. Saving 10% on your bill saves you 10% on your bill. It will not increase the cost of production. Using more will, as then we have to build more power plants.
At first I thought you were a liar, now I realize you are just an idiot.
You can buy dimmable CFLs. Use google.
In the first case try an LED, or spend more on better CFLs. In the second, do that same.
Or a better solution would be just to tax the old style bulbs to discourage their use.
Yes, they are stupid.
The coal power plant powering that heater that happens to give off a little bit of light you keep using for the wrong purpose, releases more mercury than any CFL ever will. CFLs are far more efficient, hell you will make money using them as you will save more than they cost. Consumers are in general morons who will buy the cheapest fucking thing they can find.
A light should not be producing heat, if you want heat get a heat. Heating cord is available, but 90% of the time insulation is where you should be looking first. Again this is the idiot consumer trying the cheapest short term option at the cost of the longterm. No wonder most Americans are broke.