[NCLUG] Re: "Green" power.

[Chad Perrin]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:12:12AM -0600, Grant Johnson wrote:
> >  
> I agree.   Also, you can dim LED's.   There are two nice things about CF 
> bulbs:
> 1)  Much cheaper than LED's at this point.

This is, to some degree at least, thanks to subsidies and regulations.  I
have a tendency to favor unsubsidized goods over subsidized goods, all
else being equal -- which is another reason I'm not a fan of CFs.


> 2)  They last a long time (compared to incandescent bulbs), so are good 
> for very hard to reach places like the light above the staircase.

True -- but the relationship of LEDs to CFs is similar to that of CFs to
incandescents; CFs are more expensive than incandescents and last longer,
while LEDs are more expensive than CFs and last longer.


> 
> I am looking forward to LED bulbs being generally commercially available.

They're *available* -- they just aren't very cheap.  People are used to a
particular price range for lightbulbs, and while CFs are more expensive
than incandescents, they are closer to that price range than LEDs.  As a
result, LED bulbs aren't quite as common in stores as CFs which, in turn,
aren't quite as common in stores as incandescents.  I can walk into
Wal-Mart and buy LED bulbs, though, if I want to -- or, at least, I could
the last time I checked (I haven't bought bulbs in months).

I just have to look a little harder to find them on the shelves.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
left (n.): 1. crazy pinko commie agricultural reformer Marxist
theft-culture collectivist; 2. opposite of "right"
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