Re: Britain to switch off energy-guzzling light bulbs
In reply to Britain to switch off energy-guzzling light bulbs
It's not too little or too late. It's just right, and right on schedule and the New World Order wouldn't have it any other way. :-)
'We have these new super bulbs for you that use 1/5th of the energy of the old bulbs, last much longer and we'll even give you your first 4 for free.' Sounds too good to be true right? Well, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
While it can be argued that these new 'energy-saving' bulbs use less energy than the regular bulbs we've all been using, they are far more complex to manufacture, and the process uses 10 times more energy than the manufacturing of regular bulbs.
Now that regular bulbs which we've all been using for decades are to soon be made illegal and you will be fined or arrested if caught using one, lets look at some more of the differences between the two.
Well for years, I've been able to go down to the shops and pick up at least 4 regular bulbs for £1 whereas these new CFL's cost me about £5 per bulb. That's 20 times more expensive. So for 1 'energy-saving' bulb which supposedly lasts 6 years I could instead get 20 regular bulbs which would last me at least 13 years. Looking at the box in front of me, it says right on the front it lasts '6 years' all big and bold. Then when I open the box, on the inside in tiny print it says 'based on 3 hours a day average.' Living in Scotland, I for one use my main bulbs (ie, the rooms I am in most often) more than 3 hours per day even in the summer when you need them less, nevermind in winter. So already they're telling me they're not going to last 6 years. Then you take into account the fact that in order for them to be most efficient, they have to be kept on, permanently, and if you use them like other bulbs and switch them on and off as you need them, it cuts the lifetime of the bulb. So even if you do use them 3 hours a day, they're not going to last 6 years. If you do keep them on all the time then yes, they will use less energy than your regular bulbs but since you are using them all the time it cancels out their supposed energy-saving and makes them use almost the same total energy.