[TheForge] OT: Government waste

[Bruce .]

Yeah, this light bulb law makes me crazy.  It's okay to heat your home
with electricity -- unless you do it with 100-wat incandescent bulbs.
I'm all for making bulbs more energy efficient but not if we sacrifice
light output.

A year or two ago I bought three "100-watt equivalent" fluorescent
bulbs for overhead fixtures in my basement that can only dissipate 75
watt of heat, and used them to replace the 75-wat bulbs I had in
there.  Suddenly my basement was so dark I could hardly see.  Not only
that, but these bulbs took forever to ignite.  I took them back.  It
seems these things ignite slowly and come to full brightness slowly --
something they don't tell you on the label.  But this does me no good
if I need light in the basement for only 5 minutes.

It's the one-size fits all issue again.  We need to pass a law against
one-size-fits-all laws!


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at centurytel.net> wrote:
> At the BAM meeting last weekend I was talking to one of our members that is
> a park ranger. He said that they just finished upgraiding the lighting at
> his park and visitor center.  He said that the upgrade will save them
> $8,000/year in electricity.  And it only cost us $300,000.  Only the
> government would think that spending $300,000 to save $8,000 was a good
> idea, that's a 37 year payback assuming there is no intrest on the original
> investment.  If you figure in the cost of the money at 5%, they are loosing
> $6,000/year.
>
> But that's OK they had a Fereral grant to pay for it.
>
> Oh yah, now they have a warehouse full of old florescent light tubes that
> they will have to pay to dispose.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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-- 
Bruce
NJ