LIght bulbs going "metric"

[Nickgray]

You'll probably get a really good deal on them too.

 

[c_canuk]

So don't buy into it.  We all know that this is the internet, where any one person's anecdotal evidence trumps any number of laboratory studies, that must obviously be part of some government conspiracy or other.  Do you think the Illuminati might be involved?

I'm only saying that I'm not getting my 10 000 hours of life they say I should on the packaging, and thus the ROI may not be what they say it is.

Perhaps I have dirty power in my area, I am close to the industrial zone and have a small power plant literally down the street, so it's possible I have power that is not what the average person has, causing my CFLs to burn out early.

Maybe I should get a main electrical pannel surge protector and see if there is a difference.

I am buying the bulk boxes of 8 or more, so perhaps those are inferior quality compared those packaged in 1s & 2s


I'm storing them in a milk crate, and I put them out for the once a year the city picks up Hazardous stuff like paint and batteries. it's not that bad, theres only 5 or so there now since november

If it is a conspiracy it would have to be an organization from the "Dark" ages and thus that would make the Illuminati a prime suspect.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

It's all a Nazi plot! This whole thing is Hitler's fault.

The Nazi, the Genius, and the Nature of Light

"Electric companies had commissioned Planck to discover how to get the most light out of light bulbs with the minimum energy. Planck found that by imagining the light as little packets of energy, instead of waves, his equations worked out perfectly."

http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=284

It's blogged. It must be true

 

[KingKikapu]

FWIW lately I have been buying incandescent bulbs that emit more natural (read: mimics the spectral output of the sun) vs traditional NaII bulbs.  They make for great reading light, but god damn are they ever a) pricey and b) prone to early failure.  I'm sick of having them last only a few months on me.  The minute somebody makes a truly convincing natural LED light is the minute I switch.  Given how low the gate voltage is on your typical diode, I'm having a hard time coming up with a cheaper light source of the future. 


Regarding the comment on Mercury in CFL: all flourescent bulbs contain an extremely small amount of mercury (for colouring), but the amount is vanishingly small.  I have done the spectral typing myself dozens of times in the lab, and the emitting peaks for Hg are almost washed out in the test equipment noise.  You really had to know it was there before hand to even make note of it.  Truly a non event.


As much as I respect Einstein for receiving a Nobel for the photoelectric effect, it's chump change compared to his work on relativity.  Sadly, even the Nobel prize is highly political.

 

[c_canuk]

As much as I respect Einstein for receiving a Nobel for the photoelectric effect, it's chump change compared to his work on relativity.  Sadly, even the Nobel prize is highly political.

What? you mean Al Gore got the nobel prize just for making a Video about a highly political theory and not actually contributing anything...  ;D

 

[KingKikapu]

What? you mean Al Gore got the nobel prize just for making a Video about a highly political theory and not actually contributing anything...  ;D

He won the peace prize.  Yassar Arafat won one of those.  It might as well be made of toilet paper for the amount of bloodshed he tried to stop.  The day somebody wins a Nobel Prize in physics for public awareness is the day the scientific community turns its back on the Nobel.

 

[Journeyman]

Actually, he won half a Nobel Peace Prize -- Gore




Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
~Sideshow Bob

 

[1feral1]

Both lumens and watts have been on boxes here since I came out in 1995.

Regards,

OWDU

 

[Rheostatic]

When you folks get tired of picking the flyshit out of the pepper over power vs luminosity units of measure, you'll perhaps notice what forum this is in, and the quotation marks in the title.  Look closely and you may also find some vestige of context in my comment leading the first post.  Or, just ignore all that, and carry on.

Hah sorry. Let me rephrase: How dare those dang You-row-peans take away our God-given Watts? Just another cheese-eating socialist conspiracy cooked up by the Flux Illuminati. Change is evil!



Conceivably, industry will try to continue to make more efficient lighting, making power consumption an even more unreliable measure of brightness. Might as well get used to it now. Actually, reading some of these other replies, I think we ought to continue to list both. (lm/W= luminous efficiency?)