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2023-01-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-06 09:08|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Most of us knew about the mercury years ago.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-01-06 09:24|| 2023-01-06 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Mostly only see these in cheap AirBNBs.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-01-06 10:04|| 2023-01-06 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 They were expensive, often didn't outlast an incandescent bulb and yes, the toxic waste issue.

They probably didn't save much energy either once all the raw material acquisition and manufacturing energy use was added in.

Sort of like ethanol.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-06 10:31|| 2023-01-06 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Another Obama gift that has expired.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-06 10:43|| 2023-01-06 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Temperamental things. I had some that lasted years and some that lasted only a month or so ...guess they didn't have the manufacturing down (or were just making cheap products).

Posted by magpie 2023-01-06 10:46|| 2023-01-06 10:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Just wait until they ban Electric Vehicles's due to the batteries...
Then it's back to green, environmental friendly horse-drawn carrages. Except for the elite of course.

Posted by CrazyFool 2023-01-06 10:47|| 2023-01-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 not so fast CF...horse farts are a greenhouse gas

Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-01-06 11:27|| 2023-01-06 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 You will stay in your feudal village and like it, serf!

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-06 11:37|| 2023-01-06 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 So I can just toss them in the trash now, right?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-01-06 12:04|| 2023-01-06 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 "So I can just toss them in the trash now, right?"

I dont know anyone who properly recycled them. Most everyone I knew dumped them into their recycle bin.

Out of spite, I mostly would avoid the recycle bin and use my regular garbage. A few times, I was so pissed after paying 6x for a CF but for it to only last a few months that I would chuck em - bust em - out on a street somewhere.

I <3 central planning under the veneer of capitalism.

Posted by mossomo 2023-01-06 12:48|| 2023-01-06 12:48|| Front Page Top

#11 "Pig Dicks"

I hates them. One of them 2-prong GU24 styles tried to fall out of my kid's ceiling fan onto the wood floor. Pulled an Ozzie Smith and kept my baby's room from being a haz-mat scene.

Just to repeat others' observations - totally unreliable life span, inconsistent lighting, and even flickering.

I wish whoever got a yacht for pushing these sinks off the coast of Samar.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-06 12:53|| 2023-01-06 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Yachts be spendy; i would rather the brainiac behind them were given a 2015 Kia with a mandate to not let it get stolen in Chicago…

Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-01-06 13:38|| 2023-01-06 13:38|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the original issue was that there is little margin on incandescent lights. Retooling for this new high end product is much more profitable if you encourage elected and non-elected government types to mandate your product.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-06 14:52|| 2023-01-06 14:52|| Front Page Top

#14 if mercury is the issue, what about the millions (probably hundreds of millions) of mercury vapor lamps that light up highways, playgrounds, etc.

Posted by lord garth 2023-01-06 15:33|| 2023-01-06 15:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Highway light to go windmill and solar. Sole sauce contact. email me fo mo info:

weiliteu.u.seegood@ccp.net

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-06 15:55|| 2023-01-06 15:55|| Front Page Top

#16 I was an early adopter because in the Oklahoma summers and early fall the incandescent bulbs' 85% goes to heat and 5% to visual light was annoying -- why pay extra for air conditioning? I was happiest with the circular fluorescents and least pleased with the 'curly bulbs'. Glad to see the LED bulbs killing the curly bulbs off...

Posted by magpie 2023-01-06 19:27|| 2023-01-06 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 /\ ...95%. Math B hard and typing be harder

Posted by magpie 2023-01-06 19:28|| 2023-01-06 19:28|| Front Page Top

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