Very true, all new inventions do cost more at first. That's why investors were invented.
Now a few companies have learned how to get various legal entities to mandate their products find a market. -doug On 8/24/12, Ken Javor <[email protected]> wrote: > The EMC Compliance screen room has less than optimal HVAC, and in the > winter > all the light fixtures are fitted with 100 Watt incandescents for their > heating value. These are now illegal in the USA, but EMCC has a ³stash² > that > should last longer than its proprietor. > > In the summer months, all but one or two incandescents are replaced with > CFLs to limit heat generation in the room. The CFLs are turned off during > RE scans in frequency ranges where they compromise the ambient. > > Both the EU and the USA made command economy decisions in banning > incandescents. I totally disagree that such market interventions were > necessary. I myself have installed CFLS in areas of our home where I deem > them to make sense on the basis of saving electricity (NOT saving the > planet). Mainly my concern was limiting heat dissipation, because in our > climate, shedding heat is more important for more of the year than > generating it. > > All new inventions start out expensive and then as the initial investment > is > paid off and volume picks up, costs decrease and prices with it, and > eventually, totally without any command economy market interventions, > alternative light bulbs will become cost-competitive with incandescents, > when product life and energy usage is taken into account. > > Ken Javor > Phone: (256) 650-5261 > > > > From: "Pearson, John" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:27:04 +0100 > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Conversation: Light Bulb provokquium > Subject: Light Bulb provokquium > > Hi > > Any opinions on this? > > http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/blogs/skirting-eu-law-the-rebranding > -of-incandescent-bulbs-as-heat-balls > > Do the members feel that the legislation is working or is it > counterproductive in respect of ecological aims not just from energy saving > from cradle to grave (including manufacture and hazardous material). And > what about the claim that the lost heat in colder climes needs to be > replaced with other sources. > > John > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. 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