Let There Be (Energy-Saving) Light
By jmara
Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am in General.
The light bulb should go on in a big way for consumers tomorrow - the compact fluorescent, that is - as a new lamp using half the electricity of conventional lighting goes on sale. The low-energy but high-tech Berkeley Lamp II was designed by the California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis in tandem with private company Full Spectrum Solutions. The lamp aims to solve problems many have found with the energy-saving fluorescent bulbs (pictured above; photo by slightfoot on flickr): dim, less-than-pearly-white light. Fiat lux!
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May 6th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Those energy saving bulbs are great but I can not use the same old lamp shades as I fumble with them trying to mount them back on the different bulbs . I had to bend the wires flat to make it compatible with the twisty ice cream type of bulbs .. Hasnt anybody come up with special adapters that can help old shades fit on the bulbs?
May 6th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Wow, that’s a good point, Gumby! Do you mean that the wires are too narrow for the twisty compact fluorescents? I am going to e-mail your question to my friends at the California Lighting Technology Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They are the experts!
July 25th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
LED lighting is superior to CFLs in efficiency, color rendering, and lack of toxics. If the building codes and regulatory barriers were removed, we would have a lot more options at more affordable prices.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
What is needed in the field of energy is an OTEC (Organization of Technology Exporting Countries). Such an organization could set the price for exporting technology and labor to OPEC countries, or tie it to the price of oil. What can they do, produce their own? I don’t think so. Of course, it would require the U.S, Japan, China, Russia, and others to join. This could stop the transfer of wealth to OPEC countries and stop them from charging what they want for oil while buying technology and labor on the cheap.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Well, that’s intriguing! Could you elaborate a bit on the labor and technology we export to those countries? Are you thinking along the lines of all the technology coming out of Silicon Valley, such as semiconductors? Do those countries import a lot of that sort of stuff?