Re: Long Live the Incandescent!

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Houston wrote:
> Today's NYT has an article on incandescent bulbs that meet the energy
> efficiency mandates that were expected to make them obsolete.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/business/energy-environment/06bulbs.html?hp
>
> And last week, when announcing tougher energy efficiency mandates for
> straight tube fluorescents and reflector bulbs, Obama said that 7% of US
> energy use goes for lighting. That's about the same percent that I had come
> up with using DOE statistics and a far cry from the bogus 20-25% figure used
> by the eco-terrorists and other Wallmart shills.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/energy-environment/30light.html
>
> And here's another interesting read on CFLs.
>
> http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm

Don't bother. LED lighting is the future.

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