Wednesday 1 January 2014

Light Bulbs


Whoah!  Throw away those warm incandescent light bulbs?  Could this be the first conspiracy theory for 2014?  After all, only 10% of our electrical energy supplies is used for domestic lighting, which makes the energy saving claim a little exaggerated, don’t you think?

But they say that 90% of the warm incandescent energy is give up as heat.  Well, where does all that heat go, other than warming up your accommodation ... unless you open the windows, of course.  Oh, I know, I must have flunked neuroscience PhD.

No longer sold at a store near you?  Probably because I bought the last wholesale box of 500 bulbs.  Just kidding ... someone else did.

Will the cold mercury-filled fluorescent lights be replaced later by LEDs?  People will realize soon enough that paying 500% more for a 10% saving could border on the brown envelopes theory.  So, throw away those fluorescent lights.  Wait a moment, didn’t we just do that?

Anyway, how many MPs does it take to change a light bulb.

Have you ever tried to read the newspaper by those twinkling LED lights.  I know, I know, what’s a newspaper?  I’ll get to that later.



Happy New Year


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