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Originally Posted by Halk
Perhaps we should be able to put them in our glass bins? We now have 3 bins in my council area; paper, general waste and glass. I suspect the glass bins are sorted through by hand, so things like small electrical appliances, EE bulbs could go in there too.
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Officially you're not allowed due to the mercury.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i think i read that the energy consumed by appliances in standby mode is the equivalent of the entire production of one nuclear generator. i can't remember the exact details, but that's a lot of wasted energy. when i recently got a new stereo, i discovered to my disgust that you can't shut it off completely with the power button, it just goes to standby.  presumably that's how it remembers the radio stations you programme. so now when i'm not using it i unplug it at the wall, and just choose the radio manually. |
Yep. If we turned off the video recorder, it would lose all channels (for example, when we had a poweroutage...) We don't have a radio at home, only two electric bedside alarm/radio/clock devices. And I just refuse to turn off the digital decoder because that's our clock!
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The florescents are being pushed over here, too, though not at the point of flatly banning the incandescents. My local electric utility is one of the groups behind them. They're pushing conservation and energy efficiency because they really don't want to build new generating capacity. Doing so is a political nightmare, as everyone knows it's necessary, but no one wants a plant in their area, nor does anyone want to pay the enormous costs. (And for various good reasons, a new plant probably ought to be nuclear, which would add even more fun to the fractious process of getting it built.)
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Hmm, now you mention it, I should get a few of those 100W lamps! They're going to build 3! coal energy plants here! And those wind energy mills were turned down because they were bad for the environment (birds...). If you go about 4km eastwards from where they'll be building those plants, you'll see a whole forest of wind mills (across the border...)
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Originally Posted by Kostas
Second thougth - there is a real drawback with energy saving bulbs vs. incandescent ones: they cannot be dimmed to get lighting effects!.
Gotta abandon several dimmers I have or find a workaround.
I think that halogen lamps can be dimmed but there's no obvious way to mount them...
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They can and are double the price. Haven't found one in our neighbourhood yet though...
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
I think it's a bad idea - LEDs would be a much better replacement. A lot less energy, and sod all heat from them. And a nice, bright white light.
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Actually, what I'd really like is something that puts out the light of a halogen, and the heat of an LED - I love the light from halogen bulbs, but I'm really not so keen on the heat!
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We are looking at replacing those halegen bulbs in our bedroom (which isn't even finished yet) because of that heat... I never knew they would get that hot!
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I had this same idea about the heat factor, but was quickly corrected by my friend from Panasonic. He tells me that more than 50% of the space inside the new large LED lights will be used for the aluminum 'heat-sink' they require. I was surprised as my LED flashlights seem to put out no heat at all. I have a flashlight here on my desk with 16 LED's in the reflector and it's completely cool even when on for several minutes. My friend says that the LED units required for large area lights put out more heat than current florescents, and require large heat-sinks to keep them from burning out!
Stitchawl
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I have a LED lamp, equivalent to a 40W incadescent. Exactly the same size. And it doesn't get hot to the touch at all.