If that doesn’t suck.

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.

“remember YOU are the Owner of the company.”…yeah, riiiiight.

If our upper gov was run as a business, HOW many would still have a job?? remember YOU are the Owner of the company.

37) Leaving lights on 24×7 completely gets rid of the purpose of energy saving. Turning on and off a light uses far less energy than leaving it on, even an extra second on uses more electricity than turning it off and on.

38) The A/C ban post was satire, look it up.

39) There are no true conservatives left in the government. Also, the biggest problem in the government is that inaction is the best policy for those who want to be elected. If they really fix social security, what will they bitch about come election year? If they solved the energy problems, who would they blame for rising prices? It’s all a game to them.

snicker.

Thank goodness, most Americans are finally able to discern the difference between what conservatives PREACH and what they DO — which often are polar opposites.

You PREACH less government but then gave us a bloated government which reached far into our private lives.

First you talk about banning A/C, which is patently ridiculous, then you turn around and mention building nuke plants as fast as we can which I couldn’t agree with more. You’re absolutely right. If we could get to the point where power was so cheap and plentiful that it could practically be given away, 99.24% of all the World’s problems could be solved.

2. Conservation through efficiency is a good thing. Conservation through sacrifice, reducing standard of living or added cost is unnacceptable.

The true beauty of CFL’s is not the energy they save by itself, it’s the fact that because of the energy they save you don’t need to turn them off, just leave them on 24×7 everyhwere.

For all the libs who worship legislation, can we at least throw a bone to those who are unfortunate to suffer from CFL flicker, by adding a rider outlawing headaches to the bills? I mean, legislation solves all problems so that should take care of it, no?

Thats the problem, its a COMMODITY market…

California? Savings? *Snicker*

I believe your #1 suppliers are Canada, Saudi Arabia & mexico nowadays

If you depend from venezuela from now on, it’s like depending from castro for oil, because that’s who’s calling the shots (now his brother). Get better informed.

venezuela is a drug supplier as a route, not as a producer. Not that there are is no production there (since columbian guerrillas operate there now), but columbia still gets the nod in production. venezuela just lets it pass thru.

And I know you weren’t trying but you got it, it’s mini me who bought thru cuba 52 million chinese neon bulbs to bu forcefully installed in venezuelan homes

That’s why the conservative deregulation of utilities is a such horrible idea .
I should say “was a horrible idea” since Enron’s rip off of BILLIONS from consumers has soured everyone expect the most head-in-the-sand ideological conservatives.

I seem to remember that the savings wasn’t too huge. But, I still support it since there is probably no one silver bullet to break us from foreign oil — it will be a bunch of smaller breakthroughs.

The biggest untapped, most green “alternative energy” source is conservation, right?

Bush has said in every State of the Union speech that he supports alternative energy but then he does jack about it.

If Bush want to be a man of action, rather than hot air, conservation is a great place to start.

Some technologies are already in place — like insulation, solar heating and high efficiency lighting. — but need incentives to get wide adoption and economies of scale.

Other technologies are around the bend but need the government to do R&D.