Alas, poor Edison. If he were only here.
California to Ban Conventional Lightbulbs? – News and Analysis by PC Magazine — This is ludicrous, of course, since LED’s will already be replacing everything by 2012. This is another example of unnecessary legislation done by a crackpot from California.
A California lawmaker wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs as part of Californias groundbreaking initiatives to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
The “How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act” would ban incandescent lightbulbs by 2012 in favor of energy-saving compact fluorescent lightbulbs.
“Incandescent lightbulbs were first developed almost 125 years ago, and since that time they have undergone no major modifications,” California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine said on Tuesday.
They can fix Social sec, by paying ALL the money back from the general fund. Which on the LOW interest average is around 80 trillon dollars… Which would help ALOT. Also take out those that have pensions Over $10,000 per year. Then get the Congree and reps, to start PAYING in..
If our upper gov was run as a business, HOW many would still have a job?? remember YOU are the Owner of the company.
#41 said: “If our upper gov was run as a business,”…it would be a third world country. Then you wouldn’t see that many Mexicans run thru the borders. Which is a good thing. I guess.
“remember YOU are the Owner of the company.”…yeah, riiiiight.
GE just announced a breakthrough in incandescent efficiency that exposes a glaring flaw in this bill that should have been obvious:
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070223005120
I just read California bill AB 722, and was disappointed to see that instead of sensibly setting efficiency targets (lumens/watt) it specifically singles out a technology (incandescent) and bans it. The assumption is that innovation doesn’t happen. Oops. GE just proved that assumption wrong.
If such a law had been in place years ago, do you think GE would have have funded the research that led to this breakthrough? Thankfully, such laws didn’t exist, and it looks like we’ll have the best of both worlds — high energy efficiency without the slow start, depressing spectrum, and mercury hazard of fluorescents.
I agree with the complaints here about light quality of fluorescents. Although I don’t personal suffer any ill effect from fluorescent bulbs, I know several people who do, including two family members.
Spend your money on these overpriced bulbs.
Up here in Ontario Canada, the government put on a big push for us to use them. We, like sheep, did.
Local utilities, several months later say energy demand is down that good, but because it is, We need to raise electricity rates now.
If that doesn’t suck.
This is what I said on #24…