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18547 Re: Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed
   micro, did you hear about the lady who broke one of those new bulbs in... 		DGpeddler   RANT II   22 Jun 2011
 6:14 PM
18541 Re: Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed
   Something must have gone wrong with the experiment, micro. Ohm's law i... 		Tour   RANT II   22 Jun 2011
 5:34 AM

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Re: Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed

By: micro in RANT II
Wed, 22 Jun 11 4:31 AM
Msg. 18533 of 20747
(This msg. is a reply to 18515 by Tour)
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Hi Tour!

Time for me to weigh in on the "great light bulb" topic.
Those new marvelous spiral shaped bulbs with the mercury inside versus the good old incandescent with tungsten filament light bulb.

The hype on the new bulb was it was going to save us energy because it uses less wattage to illuminate so many lumens.

Wekk, as an experiment well over a year ago, my wife and I purchased over a dozen of these and installed them in our chandeliers and ceiling fan light kits.

We put them in some lamps as well.

Now we had a house full of these things.

My home is totally electric. No gas.

The electric bill the next two months was no different than the previous one when we had incandescent bulbs in those sockets.

Since it is only the two of us who live here, nothing changed.

We should have seen a decrease in electric consumption. We did not.

I realize this was a rather unscientific method of trying this out, but the claim from the lobby pushing these is that they will save us money versus the old reliable bulbs.

That is utter B.S., kinda like a certain software company we know.
It saved us nothing while costing us a whole lot more to purchase a bulb. Substantially more per bulb.

Also, if one reads the packaging the new bulbs come in, they have extensive directions written on them on how to clean up after them in the event one should break in your house.

Now, here is the kicker for you.
I have an entire closet lined with shelves and on all those shelves are boxes of new incandescent light bulbs, mostly 60 watters and a bunch of three ways as well.
I will be doggoned if the fed is going to tell me I can no longer use a regular lightbulb when I want to.

This amounts to nothing more than over reach by an administration pushing an agenda.

Anyway, just thought I would share my personal experience with the light bulb thingy.

Too each their own. Not up to me to tell anyone else what they should use or WHY either.
The best,

micro...