Albert Manfredi said:
Most folks? I would suspect infant mortality if the fluorescent has
anywhere close to as short a life as an incandescent.
And the equivalent of the "Black Death" is killing a lot of "infants" around
here then.
Mine have lasted for years and years in every case.
I can only dream of that. No problem with standard fluoro's though!
So far, compulsory is only in Australia. But I'd say that light bulbs
constitute a large load, especially in homes that use gas for their
furnace and kitchen. In such homes, only heavy appliances or hair dryers
require more than 100 watts or so, yet for light bulbs, that's common.
And there are many light bulbs.]
The most commonly used bulb here is 60W, and there are usually only a few
rooms on at any one time. Usually less than 200W in my house, but even
double that will be about one average computer, less than the fridge,
freezer, air conditioner, washing machine, microwave oven, large TV, even
the toaster or electric kettle, each by itself!
Some people do have a hundred QH downlights though, and they should just be
shot to protect the rest of us from their stupidity
At night, with bulbs lit, a typical home probably uses the equivalent of
one or two hair dryers, kept running constantly for hours and hours.
My hair drier uses FAR more than the lights, but it isn't on very long, so
it's rather a pointless comparison.
The ONLY figure that's important to global warming, is how many WHr's a
device *actually* consumes each year.
Compared to what industry currently uses, it IS trivial. It's not that long
ago our state government spent hundred's of millions of dollars installing
power lines just to supply an Aluminium smelter. Any guess on how much power
THAT uses compared to the average household?
Makes a lot more sense to clamp down on that
load, than to get all compulsive about DTV set-top boxes, as the EU has
done.
Really? That is even more stupid.
Still politicians could never be accused of having intelligence!
As long as they don't ban computers any time soon
MrT.
