"The tree huggers and green weenie wacko's are trying to get them ALL banned in favor of the LED, and toxic lamps..... makes no sense to me when they had a hissy fit over mercury a number of years back and now these new toxic lamps are the darlings of that movement. Go figure.... "









This guy is CEO of the last of the great Mercury spewing, coal burning power plant operators.


He has special friends in Washington D.C. that  make sure that they can spew Mercury regardless of what citizens want for their children and the environment.


He'd love for you to feel conflicted and somewhat guilty about your choice of energy saving light bulb.


Of course, any business or household can make the choice to dispose of the mercury containing light bulbs in a legal and responsible manner. Responsible management of Mercury waste is entirely unlike his practice of simply spewing his companies mercury waste by product into the sky regardless of it's health impact.






Here's some back ground info:


http://www.greenpeace.org...rcury-safe/blog/38503/


Hug a tree today... and maybe you'll get to hug it again tomorrow.



best regards,
mike

craigb

mike_mccue

Cool!  Forget how much the bulbs are, how much is one of these testers???

They're right about using your digital camera to do that.  A very quick google came up with light meters in the $70-$800 range.  Here's one example of one that's similar to the meter in the photo:  


http://www.markertek.com/...rbWR0bMCFcN_QgodJxwAiQ


It's on the pricier side.  

I just bought an LG refrigerator that uses $.16 Cents worth of electricity a day. Do I get a hug?

We're all in it together Bub.

Thanks!

I was serious about the fridge btw. It says it uses $60 bucks worth of electricity a year if you leave the fridge and freezer settings at default and use energy saver mode. It says in some climates moisture can form on the edges of the door in energy saver mode and they recommend you turn it off if that happens, but so far we've been ok.

I divided it out, and it comes to roughly 16.5 cents a day. It has all LED lights inside, and it has one of those new Linear Compressors. I was leery of the Lin. Comp. at first, but it has a 10 year warranty ... and it was on clearance for 60% off. Last years model, and the last one in the store. It was still a lot of money, but I couldn't pass that deal up.

We don't have any AC so we took a couple of old fridge's, removed the doors and leave them running all day.

I remember visiting a Montana convenience store and realizing that it's annexed walk in "beer cooler room" was actually heated.

mike_mccue

I remember visiting a Montana convenience store and realizing that it's annexed walk in "beer cooler room" was actually heated.

I practically grew up here ...




There back quarter of the building is a cooler room with a huge old oak door.

It's exactly the same as it was back in early 70's. There is a huge house behind the building where the owner used to live. His daughter lives there now. Next time I go back home I'm going to see if she'll sell me the jukebox and a few other things of sentimental value in there. It closed in the mid 80's. Everything is still in there like it's waiting to open up again.

I was fascinated to find out, when I started working on appliances, that refrigerators and air conditioners don't actually produce cold air. They remove the warmth and humidity from the air that gets blown over the coils.

I never thought about it really and was fascinated by that. I always assumed they produced cold air somehow from a cold source.

Bub


I was fascinated to find out, when I started working on appliances, that refrigerators and air conditioners don't actually produce cold air. They remove the warmth and humidity from the air that gets blown over the coils.

I never thought about it really and was fascinated by that. I always assumed they produced cold air somehow from a cold source.

It is fascinating, and still a mystery. Why does that substance ( Freon ) attract that part of the atmosphere? It's tied to heat pump technology. Cold in the summer, heat in the winter, all due to a reversal of attraction of atmospheric elements.