And yet, billions of computer monitors, CRT's, and LCD's around the
world are programmed to never go into sleep mode and and reduce power.
Drive past any large company at the end of the day and you will see
fancy screen savers running, instead of just powering down the monitor.
Motion sensitive lights and the fast amounts of money spent to light
the night sky. "Penny wise, and pound foolish".
David Wilburn
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It is possible that the push
to legislate use of CF is an attempt by the CF industry to cement
their
use before LED lighting reaches this stage.
Maybe, but I doubt it, because all the legislation I've heard of is
simply aimed
against conventional incandescents. LEDs will benefit too.
IMHO, the push is driven by two concerns.
First is the desire to "do something" about energy policy/greenhouse
gases/pollution/conservation/etc.,
and reducing the enormous number of kWh used to power incandescents is a
quick fix - or seems
to be, anyway.
Second is the need/desire to avoid building more power plants and
transmission lines
by reducing demand. New York City is doing things like replacing all its
traffic lights with
LEDs for demand reduction.
--
While I'm all for energy efficiency, and use CFLs myself, I would rather
see people educated to replace low-efficiency
devices and systems with high-efficiency ones rather than by outlawing
any particular technology.
There are some applications where incandescents may be needed or
preferred to other
technologies. And CFLs are already cost-effective for most applications,
while LEDs soon will be.
73 de Jim, N2EY
(Elecraft products don't use incadescents at all, IIRC)
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