Lentil munching loons are going to ban lightbulbs in the UK

[realityhack]

Great - great idea that one...

I really want to bathe every room in my house with a sickening-yellow/green light - a light that doesn't switch on properly straight away - that you have to wait for until it kicks in. A light with a perceptible flicker (not to most people, warranted - but I can see the flicker from fluorescent lighting and it gives me a headache).

Oh - and the most important point for me - I use daylight simulation bulbs at the drawing board in my anglepoise - it's the only way I can do anything close to proper colour-matching, and the contrast produced by blue light far exceeds tungsten, fluorescent and halogen lighting. If this takes off I'm buying all the daylight bulbs I can get my hands on.

[snaw]

Great - great idea that one...

I really want to bathe every room in my house with a sickening-yellow/green light - a light that doesn't switch on properly straight away - that you have to wait for until it kicks in. A light with a perceptible flicker (not to most people, warranted - but I can see the flicker from fluorescent lighting and it gives me a headache).

Oh - and the most important point for me - I use daylight simulation bulbs at the drawing board in my anglepoise - it's the only way I can do anything close to proper colour-matching, and the contrast produced by blue light far exceeds tungsten, fluorescent and halogen lighting. If this takes off I'm buying all the daylight bulbs I can get my hands on.

You talking about the same bulbs - the modern kind like? I use them at home and apart from taking a couple of seconds to get going I don't really notice any major difference.

[realityhack]

You talking about the same bulbs - the modern kind like? I use them at home and apart from taking a couple of seconds to get going I don't really notice any major difference.

Some obviously start up quicker than others then - I got one for the house to try it out and it takes about 10-15 seconds to 'warm up'.

The colour is very different - you won't notice unless you spend a lot of time working with colour/white balances, or you design/illustrate/paint for a living.

[DBA_bloke]

Like most modern-thinking, green-minded folk, I have a single energy-saving light bulb, which salves my conscience as I drive my great big 4X4 diesel-burning Jeep MuthaFecker at 80mph past the local schools, on my way to the airport, for my daily Easy Jet shuttle commute from Luton to Glasgow.

[sasguru]

Like most modern-thinking, green-minded folk, I have a single energy-saving light bulb, which salves my conscience as I drive my great big 4X4 diesel-burning Jeep MuthaFecker at 80mph past the local schools, on my way to the airport, for my daily Easy Jet shuttle commute from Luton to Glasgow.

Is that before or after you've snorted and injected the daily batch of drugs that so clearly addles what you call your brain?

[DBA_bloke]

Is that before or after you've snorted and injected the daily batch of drugs that so clearly addles what you call your brain?

That was so dull.

[KathyWoolfe]

If every UKhousehold installed 3 Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs enough energy would be saved in a year to supply all street lighting in the UK.

Are councils planning to install energy-saving bulbs in all these street lights.
What about all these poorly designed street lights that emit light in ALL directions rather than down towards the ground where it is needed.

Admittedly I don't use it a great deal, but I have a bedside lamp (originally a computer desk lamp) with an energy efficient bulb in that I bought in 1998 and I'm still using the original bulb. is this a record?

[King Cnvt]

Do we really need light?

Blind people seem to cope well.

I suggest we ban light to save Carbon.

[DBA_bloke]

Global Warming: Everyone knows that the sun is the real culprit; never the same since Garry Bushell left.