[Elecraft] Re: FCC rules part 18 [CF bulbs vs. LED]

[David Wilburn]

And yet, billions of computer monitors, CRT's, and LCD's around the 
world are programmed to never go into sleep mode and and reduce power. 
Drive past any large company at the end of the day and you will see 
fancy screen savers running, instead of just powering down the monitor. 
  Motion sensitive lights and the fast amounts of money spent to light 
the night sky.  "Penny wise, and pound foolish".

David Wilburn
dave.wilburn at verizon.net
K4DGW
K2 #5982


n2ey at aol.com wrote:
> 
> From: Leigh at WA5ZNU.org
> 
>> It is possible that the push
>> to legislate use of CF is an attempt by the CF industry to cement 
> their
>> use before LED lighting reaches this stage.
> 
> Maybe, but I doubt it, because all the legislation I've heard of is 
> simply aimed
> against conventional incandescents. LEDs will benefit too.
> 
> IMHO, the push is driven by two concerns.
> 
> First is the desire to "do something" about energy policy/greenhouse 
> gases/pollution/conservation/etc.,
> and reducing the enormous number of kWh used to power incandescents is a 
> quick fix - or seems
> to be, anyway.
> 
> Second is the need/desire to avoid building more power plants and 
> transmission lines
> by reducing demand. New York City is doing things like replacing all its 
> traffic lights with
> LEDs for demand reduction.
> 
> -- 
> 
> While I'm all for energy efficiency, and use CFLs myself, I would rather 
> see people educated to replace low-efficiency
> devices and systems with high-efficiency ones rather than by outlawing 
> any particular technology.
> There are some applications where incandescents may be needed or 
> preferred to other
> technologies. And CFLs are already cost-effective for most applications, 
> while LEDs soon will be.
> 
> 73 de Jim, N2EY
> 
> (Elecraft products don't use incadescents at all, IIRC)
> ________________________________________________________________________
> AOL now offers free email to everyone.  Find out more about what's free 
> from AOL at AOL.com.
> _______________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Post to: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
> Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
> Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
>