Yeah. Those old incandescant bulbs will be lonely, languishing in the garage, replaced by those upstart LEDs....
--BenD Crow T. Robot wrote: > I like the idea (and I read that too this morning, BTW) of saving all that > electricity, but just like every other Green "if you do/don't do X, we'll > save the entire planet in one day" idea, I think it has a negative side that > no one wants to see. In particluar, this one begs me to ask the question of > what are all those old incandescent lights going to end up after they are no > longer useful? > > I wonder what the impact on our landfills would be if everyone in the world > bought LED's and threw away their old lights? > > On Dec 6, 2007 1:37 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just read this on one of our company's blogs: >> >> >> http://mddailyrecord.blogspot.com/2007/12/have-you-switched-to-led-holiday-lights.html >>> National Geographic says that if everyone replaced their conventional >> holiday >>> light strings with LEDs, at least two billion kilowatt-hours of >> electricity could be >>> saved in a month - enough to power 200,000 homes for a year. >> >> Has anyone tried them, or seen them in action? >> >> Are they close enough to the regular small lights? >> >> Have they solved the "one bulb is out, all others are out" thing? >> >> This is something I may need to check out. >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247787 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
