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From: The Real Bev on 13 Dec 2009 20:41 Dean H wrote: > I was outside just now, getting stuff under cover in the Here Comes > The Rain Dance. > Then it dawned on me. > > Sorting our hardware is a noble goal, sort of like world peace; we may > not see it achieved in our lifetime, but that doesn't mean we can't > try to make things better for our children. Gag me with a spoon! One of my children is on the other side of the country and the other allowed a Craftsman 3/8" ratchet to sit around outside for two years. Cost me a whole penny to fix it... I love tools, but life is too short to worry about some stuff. Sorting screws is one of them. > Now it's raining, so I must move to my indoors mess, and maybe some > ebay listing. > > Do you think LED Christmas lights will be more reliable? > > Don't get me going about CFLs. I've been pretty happy with them. Very few burnouts since we started using them maybe 5 years ago. The city gave us a lot of them, we bought some cheap at yard sales, and Costco had some on sale at a good price a while back. I think we have a several-lifetime supply now. The problem is that the damn things just aren't bright enough. I want a 200-watt equivalent for one of my lamps and I can't get it. -- Cheers, Bev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Tell him that the government will give him lots of fish and he will vote for you forever. When he doesn't get any fish, blame the other guys." --A Taxpayer
From: Dean H on 13 Dec 2009 22:37
> > Don't get me going about CFLs. > > I've been pretty happy with them. Very few burnouts since we started using > them maybe 5 years ago. The city gave us a lot of them, we bought some cheap > at yard sales, and Costco had some on sale at a good price a while back. I > think we have a several-lifetime supply now. The problem is that the damn > things just aren't bright enough. I want a 200-watt equivalent for one of my > lamps and I can't get it. If anybody's found a 3-way CFL that lasts more than two weeks let me know. The ones I used from a company that starts with phil and ends with lips all burned out in spectacular fashion, one getting so hot I think it might have been a fire hazard had nobody been home. They actually get hotter after they burn out. Nice feature. <a figurative light bulb goes on> I wonder how much power a burned out CFL uses. How many of those energy vampires will be darkly sipping our juice in a decade? Perhaps we will grow to appreciate the simplicity of the incandescent bulb's built-in fuse feature. *** Nice to have lightbulbs in the hazmat collection now, speaking of having too much junk laying about. randomly selected Incandescent bulb = 28.9 grams of metal and glass. No problem in a landfill or incinerator. Sold safely in paper and cardboard for generations. randomly selected CFL bulb = 83.8 grams with most of the difference being less degradable materials, plastic and even some nice toxic mercury. Sold in a plastic package that is no good for sorting hardware. I saw a CFL collection box at the big orange home improvement cartel. Not that they're in on it. I mean, not that there's anything to be in on. If the elaborate package says green it's got to be true. Kermit was right. |