The BS of "read the small print" is eating our collective capitalist deceitful asses up. When will honesty and or transparency become the norm and not the exception? Damn The Mona Lisa and her smile!
Peace, Doc On Apr 8, 11:14 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | CFLs Causing Utility Woes | > | from the so-very-simple-that-only-a-child-can-do-it dept. | > | posted by timothy on Wednesday April 08, @17:50 (Power) | > | http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/08/2125250 | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > [0]dacut writes "We've seen [1]compact fluorescent lamps start to take > over shelf space at the local hardware store. Replacing a 60 watt > incandescent with a 13 watt CFL seems like a great savings, though > [2]many consumers are disappointed with the slow warm-up times, > lower-than-advertised lifetimes, and hassles of disposing the > mercury-containing bulbs. Now EDN reports [3]they may use more energy > than claimed due to their poor [4]power factor. Mike Grather, of > Lumenaire Testing Laboratory, 'checked the power factor for the CFLs and > found they ranged from .45 to .50. Their "real" load was about twice that > implied by their wattage.' The good news: you're only billed for the 13 > watts of real power used. The bad news: the utilities have to generate > the equivalent of 28 watts (that is, 28 [5]VA of apparent power for you > EEs out there) to light that bulb. Until they fix these issues, I'll hold > on to my incandescents and [6]carbon arc lamps, thanks." > > Discuss this story at: > http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/04/08/2125250 > > Links: > 0. mailto:[email protected] > 1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp > 2.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/energy-environment/28bulbs... > 3.http://www.edn.com/blog/1470000147/post/450043045.html > 4.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor > 5.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt-ampere > 6.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
