Comments on: Energy Saving Bulbs: Your Home Experiments

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:12:04 +0000

Spreading FUD at a party??? What’s FUD? What happens if I get some of it on me?

By: peter dublin

peter dublin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:51:40 +0000

( more on different lights
properties and advantages
http://www.ceolas.net/#li5x onwards )

By: peter dublin

peter dublin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:48:59 +0000

Also try the brightness comparison test..
as in the daily telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6110547/Energy-saving-light-bulbs-offer-dim-future.html

More seriously, US lighting expert Howard Brandston had
an article about these matters
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574377171050647330.html

also
http://www.concerninglight.com/commentary.html

It remains true that light bulbs dont give out any CO2 gas RE “million tons emission savings”
(what ? yes surprising isn’t it?),
that power stations could be dealt with direstly,
and that if that takes too long, then in the meantime a simple – temporary – tax on bulbs makes more sense
(this is not a normal ban, banning an unsafe product like lead paint – it’s a ban for consumption reasons only, so a tax is more logical)
Taxation is still unjustified in principle – it’s just less bad than ban, also for government ban proponents, who then get money for their renewable projects, home energy schemes, etc… lowering emissions more than any remaining bulb use was causing them…

By: Rankersbo

Rankersbo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:59:05 +0000

I compared a normal bulb to a CFL: there was no difference in either test. Should have gone out and bought an old-fashioned incandescent bulb to compare I suppose.

By: Roger Thornhill

Roger Thornhill — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:25:05 +0000

Another experiment: take one Ed Milibland* and hold a bulb at one ear and look through the other, then repeat with a cfl. Now you will hardly see any difference than looking at them directly. the test proves nowt about cfls but slot about the vacuuity of Ed’s** bonce.

* no, please, just take him; anywhere but here.
** I swear that if Ed and David’s heads touched, they’d stick together like Velcro.

By: EuRat

EuRat — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:15 +0000

Who are you gonna belive – Me or your lying eyes?

By: Constantly Furious

Constantly Furious — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:26:46 +0000

And a third experiment: take an odd-shaped, ugly and not particularly effective ‘green’ bulb and RAM IT UP THE BACKSIDE OF AN INTERFERING EU BUREAUCRAT.

Actually, that’s not an experiment, is it?

Be good to do though..