I'm Hoarding Light Bulbs

[Grayfox]

It may not sound like much but if you can save 800,000 tons of CO2 each year and save people money.
Who are we to complain.

No one in australia really complained about not being able to get the old bulbs, but then again living in Australia is living in hollywood.

It is expensive.
We have the Australia Technology Tax.
We pay more for petrol
We pay more for food
We pay more for cars.

Since we are an island nation things are expensive here.

 

[Exorcet]

It may not sound like much but if you can save 800,000 tons of CO2 each year and save people money.

Except for the money going into to enforcing the law and the potential effect on prices.

Who are we to complain.

We're the people being told our choices and preferences don't matter.

Another way to save money is to simply limit how much people are allowed to spend. You can reduce emissions by forbidding private transport like cars except in extreme circumstances. Both are horrible ideas. The lightbulb ban belongs in the same bin. It is unnecessary, of dubious value, and it places restrictions on everyone while ignoring their needs.

 

[Omnis]

This is why banning things* is stupid.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...-MIT-makes-them-more-efficient-than-LEDs.html

"If you write detailed regulations about existing technologies, you are forestalling the possibilities that scientists and entrepreneurs will discover new ways of doing things in the future."

* Things, not people.

 

[TenEightyOne]

This is why banning things* is stupid.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...-MIT-makes-them-more-efficient-than-LEDs.html

"If you write detailed regulations about existing technologies, you are forestalling the possibilities that scientists and entrepreneurs will discover new ways of doing things in the future."

* Things, not people.

They were going to ban them in the UK but fortunately it never happened. We don't have any LED bulbs in our house, we're old school

 

[ExigeEvan]

This is why banning things* is stupid.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...-MIT-makes-them-more-efficient-than-LEDs.html

"If you write detailed regulations about existing technologies, you are forestalling the possibilities that scientists and entrepreneurs will discover new ways of doing things in the future."

* Things, not people.

I don't imagine the legislation is that restrictive if I can buy filament-like LED bulbs. These will be fine if they do make it to production, but someone will still complain they're not as good as filament bulbs.


One thing I am learning about LED bulbs is that they really show up any poor switches that let any voltage trickle through.

 

[ECGadget]

I've got a mixture of bulbs and bulb types in my house, ranging from LED candle lights to the good old standard lights to halogen spot lights. Good mix, glad to see the lovely filament bulbs making a potential energy efficient return!
Now we just need to get rid of those stupid LED street lights. They work fine on motorways where they have a good 12-18 strips, but on the side roads in towns they are the most useless lights I have ever seen. Someone find energy efficient sodium street lights!

 

[ExigeEvan]

The LED street lights are unbelievably bright in my area, outside my parents' there's a single LED streetlight amongst the Sodium lamps, and every time.I think there's a car with HID coming around the corner.

 

[novcze]

When we are talking about bulbs with E27 Edison screw I use incandescent from old stock of mine and filament-like LED bulbs like this one

because they contain less electronics than fluorescent or ‘CFL’ lightbulbs, usually just bridge rectifier and some resistors (some of them may have capacitor to smooth out 100/120 Hz flicker, but it isn't necessary) ... only drawback is that this type of LED bulb is not strong enough (yet) to replace 100W, at least I didn't see one. I bought them as equivalent to 60W incadescent.

 

[ECGadget]

The LED street lights are unbelievably bright in my area, outside my parents' there's a single LED streetlight amongst the Sodium lamps, and every time.I think there's a car with HID coming around the corner.

They seem to come in 3, 5, 9, 12 and 18 LED strips. 18 are the ones on the motorways, and they seem to use 9 on the main roads here. Then we have these lousy ones with 3. Sad times

 

[niky]

When we are talking about bulbs with E27 Edison screw I use incandescent from old stock of mine and filament-like LED bulbs like this one

because they contain less electronics than fluorescent or ‘CFL’ lightbulbs, usually just bridge rectifier and some resistors (some of them may have capacitor to smooth out 100/120 Hz flicker, but it isn't necessary) ... only drawback is that this type of LED bulb is not strong enough (yet) to replace 100W, at least I didn't see one. I bought them as equivalent to 60W incadescent.

I'm using coated 3-4w bulbs that cost a trifle... about $1-$2... in place of the 25w incandescents that would normally go into our table lamps. Very pleasant yellow glow. No flicker. And they're dim and diffuse enough to provide pleasant night-time illumination. And they cost pennies to operate.

There are LEDs that can give the same lumen output as a 100 watt incandescent... but they're pretty expensive, and large.