New "low energy" bulbs ARE a con

[HairyArsedBloke]

Wasn't that just WW2 propaganda to cover up the invention of RADAR ?

Since when has nuLieBore distinguished between reality and propaganda?

[EternalOptimist]

You can buy 5 florescents for £1 down my local supermarket. Also, don't forget to give up meat and breed like crazy as you know this makes perfect sense.

I was trying to read the resistances on some minute resistors the other day (using the colour bars, without a colour chart to compare them with) and had trouble telling brown from black and red from orange, etc, under my underpowered florescent light. So I tried again under the table lamp, which has one of the old illegal light bulbs in. That was an improvement and the colours changed and became more distinct and differentiable, but even so neither were as good as decent sunlight, as I discovered the next morning. I'd also tried it under a small white LED, and that wasn't much cop either.

Bye Bye Rosie Off You Go Birmingham Via Great Western

iirc

[RichardCranium]

I'd also tried it under a small white LED, and that wasn't much cop either.

That's 'cos white LEDs aren't white; merely a mix of a few bands of colour. They're useless for arts & crafts too. Not like the old fashioned, illegal, think-of-the-children, blue-tinted natural daylight bulbs.

[TimberWolf]

Bye Bye Rosie Off You Go Birmingham Via Great Western

iirc

Surely something with less words than that is possible?

B*B*R*O*Y*G*B*V*G*W

How about : Babroy Gabivrow?

Okay, they aren't proper words, but then again neither is Roygbiv and I use that one. Mostly because I could never remember the rhyme.

[AtW]

They're blue leds with a phosphor.

Crap light.

You can get LEDs with an R, G, and B led in them, which gives white.

But it's still crap because Leds are almost monochromatic.

Can they do yellow then?

[Halcyon]

neither were as good as decent sunlight,

so if I can just find a way of getting a portable hydrogen fusion reactor into a small glass bulb about 4" in diameter at a retail price point around 20p I'll be rich, rich, rich

[AtW]

Not quite hydrogen fusion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodeless_lamp

That's not a good reason at consecutive postings!

[Board Game Geek]

Gosh, the "environmentalists" may have spun us a porkie pie ?

But I thought they had the moral and scientific high ground, and could lecture the rest of us, carte blanche, with justifiable righteousness.

You mean, perhaps they are not as honest as they would like us to believe ?

Oh dear.

I'm very disappointed.

Very disappointed indeed.

[EternalOptimist]

Gosh, the "environmentalists" may have spun us a porkie pie ?

But I thought they had the moral and scientific high ground, and could lecture the rest of us, carte blanche, with justifiable righteousness.

You mean, perhaps they are not as honest as they would like us to believe ?

Oh dear.

I'm very disappointed.

Very disappointed indeed.

A few years ago I realised that if you pay people not to work, they get quite good at it, pay them to have babies, hey presto chav baby making machines.

Now I realise that if you pay scientists to frighten the bejesus out of us, they will get quite good at it. Pay them even more and they are capable of frightening , lecturing and patronising the bejesus out of us.


ranty rant

[hyperD]

Wasn't that just WW2 propaganda to cover up the invention of RADAR ?

Yup

Those old government propaganda techniques are as old as time, aren't they?