Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for September 08, 2013

….. and greener!

you may want to stop you might end up with something worst then the first idea

He’ll probably stop at LEDs.

How did the wiz get back from his teleportation trip?

That last one is a toxic chemical spill (mercury).

That is odd. There was a commit here that I was going to reply to and it just disappeared before my eyes. It was about replacing 500 watts worth of lights in a kitchen with 45 watts of LEDs. What happen to that commit?

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Quick, call the HazMat on the last one there, get some LED light on that!

I’m waiting for a three way equivalent (50,100,150) replacement bulb. The incandescent ones typically last about 4 months until the low one burns out.

“No, that stupid curly thing is not “better.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I am in complete agreement. I hate them.

Start writing to your senators complaining about the toxic levels of mercury being forced into our homes. It’s the only way we will avoid being forced into using them.

Those “curly” bulbs contain mercury. They run/burn hot. They dont last as long in enclosed fixtures compared to the bare bulb. Every light in my home is the “curly” type. .LED’s use less power. Run cool. And dont have the mercury(I think). When LED’s get cheap and plentiful I will be switching.

Williams statement would have it at 50/50. Besides; the 1%ers are probably the ones that developed the light bulb to start with.

OK, but that still does not answer my question where did that COMMENT go?

The curly bulbs also skew toward the blue end of the light spectrum, which makes reading more difficult, especially for those of us with high-order aberrations. There’s also the issue of long-term UV damage to eyes.

Nice.

“No, that stupid curly thing is not “better.””-Sure it is.Twisty lights use less power, create less poluttion and are cheaper over the life of the lights. I’ve been using them since back when they had radioisotopes to kick them off into glowing. GOOD TIMES.

“In the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that if all 270 million CFLs sold in 2007 were sent to landfill sites, around 0.13 metric tons of mercury would be released, 0.1% of all U.S. emissions of mercury (around 104 metric tons that year).”-Versus EPA rules regarding mercury emissions:“Under the new rule, power plants can emit 1.2 pounds of mercury per million BTUs of energy produced. Industry had sought a limit of 1.4 pounds. But the EPA arrived at its figure based on a formula set out under the Clean Air Act, and analysts said the agency could not deviate from it.”-CONCLUSION:Twisty lights have way less mercury even if you break them than the smoke stacks would give off from powering the incandescent lights they replace.-And who goes around breaking light bulbs?Them suckers is expensive and you might cut yourself.

I live in a building built in 1948. I swear the wiring must be just as old. I’m lucky if the hall ligbt sur ives 2 years. That CFL is enclosed in a small airless fixture.