Re: the light bulb police are coming

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:02:03 GMT, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote in
message  <45f7e0a9.1866152781@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/business/14light.html?ref=science
>
>The article uses figures for the percentage of electricity used for lighting
>that are about 7.5 times the figures given by DOE web sites. Either the DOE
>is incompetent or the people hoping to profit by forcing everyone to switch
>to CFLs are cutting their figures from whole cloth.
>
>I've cited this page before.
>
>    http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recs2001/enduse2001/enduse2001.html
>
>Table 2 indicates that lighting represents 8.8% of 2001 US residential
>electricity use. From other DOE statistics, residences use about 1/3 of
>total electricity with industry and commercial sites using approximately the
>same 1/3 fractions. That means residential lighting uses 8.8/3 or 2.933% of
>total electricity, not the 22% claimed in the article.

Wrong.

The article does *not* say that _residential_ lighting uses 22% of
electricity.  Dave simply makes this up.

It is not that "the DOE is incompetent" or that " the people hoping to profit
by forcing everyone to switch to CFLs are cutting their figures from whole
cloth" but rather that Dave makes stuff up because he painted himself into a
corner years ago and is getting even more frantic, and more careless, and
more insulting, and more contemptuous of the actual work of others to
actually deal with real issues.

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org