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Reply to: New "low energy" bulbs ARE a con
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Previously on "New "low energy" bulbs ARE a con"
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Handy Hint:
Do not use energy savers or fluorescents as a light source if you do any wood or metal turning (Lathe work), the minute strobe effect makes the workpiece in the lathe appear to be stationary, not spinning fast enough to take your arm off.
This was a warning given out in a hobby magazine.
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I'm always a bit confused about this topic. It's not like there is a shortage of energy hitting the planet or available from wind or tides etc etc or even pulling apart a few atoms.
What seems to be missing is the willpower to harness it.
Which is strange really, because if I want to use lots of electricity and am prepared to pay for it, you'd think that someone would tap that market and produce the electricity somehow.
So what's the real reason that govts are always trying to make us save power? *
*conspiracy theorists, this is your moment to jump into the thread...
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Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View PostYeah, I have a few of them. One blew after 5 days use about 3 hours a day last week. It's working out damned expensive this malarkey.
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Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Postyou don't have to stop missing the "traditional" bulbs, there are Halogen type bulbs now that are dimmable too, use approx 30% less 'leccy.
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"Don't fix it now, wait until it's really bad!"
Would make a good slogan I admit.
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I do not know why we should be placing ourselves on the wheel for this.
Siagon, Bangkok and Peking you can hardly catch a breath for the polution.
When they sort their act out...
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you don't have to stop missing the "traditional" bulbs, there are Halogen type bulbs now that are dimmable too, use approx 30% less 'leccy.
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Yeh but the old bulbs didn't glow for 5 minutes after you turn them off.
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Dont get me started on those "environmental" bulbs.
The 100 watt equivalents are so dim (more like 60 watts), I'm going to start hoarding traditional lightbulbs.
And when the bulb blows, it leaks mercury vapour.
I would advise anyone to open windows in the house when that happens.
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Next they'll be tessling us that Solar Panels aren't efficient in the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8386460.stm
"Cloudy northern countries like the UK could wait further, possibly up to 2030. But the day would come when solar panels on homes would be cost-competitive without a subsidy, even in Britain."
Well at the least the governemnt is listening, this week offering a tax rebate for installation of solar panels
http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...s-1836032.html
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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostGosh, 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.
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
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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.
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