Hi Allen, That is an interesting link. And, the price is certainly attractive. However, I removed all incandescents from my house about 2 years ago and bought all cfl's. I did that to reduce energy consumption and heat. I don't like the negatives, the non dimmability, the slow warm up, and the mercury. I've read somewhere that power plants put out more mercury up the smoke stack because of excessive energy consumption than the cfl's will ever leak out. I'm not sure whether that's true but I suspect it is. I'm really waiting for led's to become more affordable. I like the two led's I own. I'm satisfied with the color rendering of those. Projected life is great, nothing is toxic, they're instant on, and they're dimmable. I'm OK with the color rendering of 2700K cfl's, but the led's do a better job of mimicking incandescents.
I've studied alternate energy extensively. While I have questions about the constitutionality of banning certain bulbs, I really do think it's best that the country move on. A large power plant can burn a 3 mile train load of coal per day, and puts lots of pollutants into the air. PS, I don't consider co2 a pollutant. If we'd completely switch to bulbs as efficient as led's or cfl's, we could stop burning 1/4 of that trainload of coal. That would help eliminate things like so2 and acid rain, etc. So, it really is in everyone's best interest to move to better technology. Unfortunately, we don't have a good comparably affordable and comparably non toxic replacement yet. Maybe the new laws will help spur that development though. I don't think you would have even seen led's below $ 100 if not for the new laws. Sincerely, Ron Allen Beddingfield <[email protected]> wrote: >Since lighting become a recurring theme, I thought some would be >interested in this. I'm glad to see this compay alive, well, and >successful. >To sum it up, there is an exception for "rough service" bulbs to the >incandescent ban. This company is selling those incandescent bulbs. >They are pricey, but they last longer, and they get around the >brainless government ban. > >http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/12/16/man-who-saved-lightbulb/ > >-- >Allen Beddingfield >[email protected] > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >tech-chat mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat -- Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail. Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen. (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy mailing lists and such. I don't always see new email messages very quickly.) Ron Frazier 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message. linuxdude AT techstarship.com _______________________________________________ tech-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat
