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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 17, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
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Thanks for reminding me! I gotta order some LED's for my cabinets.
Pretty hard to sell the client on incandescents there. (I wish I had Cosmic's Photoshop skills)
LED's are such a huge improvement over halogens! Many a halogen has started a fire.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Sep 17, 2012 - 01:11pm PT
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Maybe CFRs are bad news. Maybe the manufacture and disposal of them creates environmental problems. And LEDs may be better in many ways. I'm sure there are some pretty good and sound arguments(some of which are already on this thread).
But don't post nonsense science. You could probably find millions of Google hits on a search about Noah's Ark or dinosaurs co-existing with humans. But the search result count means absolutely nothing about how true either of those things might be. How many of those hits on your search link back to this same meaningless image?
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ec
climber
ca
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Sep 17, 2012 - 01:35pm PT
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LED's rock for under-cabinet lighting - wouldn't use anything else. - Reilly
LED lights do not let one see the true color of the food you're preping. 'Could be some possible food poisoning in someone's future.
'just sayin'
 ec
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Sep 17, 2012 - 02:00pm PT
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Actually, LED's usually make the light most like daylight in terms of color. Tungsten lights need special film to accomodate their reddish color if you have to shoot under them.
Just sayin, factually eh?
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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Sep 17, 2012 - 02:10pm PT
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Ya'll might as well be talking about abseiling.
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Sep 17, 2012 - 03:03pm PT
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All you guys do is complain about sh#t not being how it was 50 years ago.
You should move to a 3rd world country. You'll never say BITD again.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Sep 18, 2012 - 10:34am PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 18, 2012 - 10:39am PT
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"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years
have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching
on a period big with the most important changes." - Thomas Malthus 1766-1834
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:11am PT
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The gravity light is very ingenious, thanks for posting. Curious to see it go head to head with a small solar panel and a lithium ion battery. Those 2 dollar solar yard lights can be used to read by.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:18am PT
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Screw the Africans; we need those here in Third World California
during the Santa Anas!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:29am PT
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Big bad guberment all up in your sockets and yanking your chains. Seems odd to fight for something your esteemed ancestors probably fought valiantly against due to their producing too harsh a light compared to gas lights - and those wires - ridiculous and unsightly.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Dec 27, 2013 - 08:02pm PT
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just saw this headline and remembered Russ Walling stocking up on pallets full of the incandescents…
http://grist.org/list/three-fifths-of-america-doesnt-know-incandescents-are-about-to-disappear/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Dec%252027&utm_campaign=daily
Three-fifths of America doesn’t know incandescents are about to disappear
By Sarah Laskow
In less than a week, on Jan. 1, the most popular incandescent light bulbs — 40W and 60W bulbs — will no longer be made or imported into the U.S. That means, if you’ve got any old bulbs stashed away somewhere, those are all you’re getting, unless you run out right now and buy more. And three-fifths of Americans, according to Osram Sylvania’s “Socket Survey,” have no idea.
The survey, which measures attitudes towards energy efficiency and lighting in particular, found that only 4 in 10 Americans know that the lights disappear on New Year’s Day. (A larger proportion — about two-thirds — were aware the bulbs were being phased out; they just didn’t know when.)
And what will the two-fifths of Americans who are in the know be doing? MNN reports:
[A]n estimated 30 percent of these informed consumers will be raiding the aisles of your local big box and hardware stores, sweaty and wild-eyed, grabbing all of the 40W and 60W boxes they can carry. … A majority (46 percent) who don’t plan on stockpiling incandescents as a result of the final phase-out, “plan” to switch, not surprisingly, to CFLs.
A further 37 percent of the people who aren’t stockpiling incandescents say they’ll be switching to LEDs or halogen, and I guess the rest are just going to sit in the dark.
Anyway, if you were in the unprepared 60 percent, congratulations: Now you won’t be caught by surprise, and you can spend the rest of the year imagining how hard Glenn Beck is going to freak out when he tries to replace a bulb in 2014.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Dec 27, 2013 - 08:06pm PT
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Glenn Beck needs to install a lightbulb into his head. He's got nothing. NOTHING
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2018 - 09:29am PT
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JDF newsbreak: LED’s still a curse....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 16, 2018 - 09:36am PT
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Ever try to do a colposcopy with an incandescent? I didn’t think so.
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Oct 16, 2018 - 09:36am PT
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Now the San Diego sidewalks & boardwalk are overrun with motorized scooters with blinding high beams going 20mph (speed limit supposed to be 8mph).
No LEOs to be found.
Nor do they ever enforce any limits on smoke spewing bonfires.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Oct 16, 2018 - 09:48am PT
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Get off my lawn!!
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