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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:40:02 +1000
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 16:25:08 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

>On 2024-08-06 03:14:09 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:
>> On 7/7/24 05:38, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>> On 2024-07-07, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> LED bulbs are largely a scam for bulb makers to stuff more money into
>>>> their pockets.
>>> 
>>> Here's some realistic numbers:  I replace a 40 W incandescent bulb
>>> with a LED one.  Aldi middle isle, 2 euros.  Residental power is
>>> about 0.40 euros/kWh here, so the bulb will have paid for itself once
>>> it has saved 2/0.40 = 5 kWh.  It produces the same illumination at
>>> 1/10 of the power of the incandescent, so it saves 40 - 40/10 = 36 W.
>>> 5000 Wh / 36 W = 140 h, so if used one hour each day, it will have
>>> paid for itself in under five months.  If it eventually dies after
>>> 10,000 hours instead of a promised 30,000, so be it.
>>> 
>>> You can plug in numbers that are applicable to your situation and
>>> in your part of the world.
>>> 
>> 
>> 	That is theoretical saving. Down at the Power Company the
>> receipts are down due to power saving so to pay for maintenance
>> and emergency repair service they must raise the price of your
>> power. This is what happened in California at least in the
>> San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company
>> is now mainly a power distribution company and they are putting
>> lines under ground now in sensitive areas which we are helping
>> to pay for.  As well as Battery Farms to save all the wind & solar
>> power generated while the sun is shining and wind is blowing for
>> those times we call night.
>> 	And if stops some wild fires in sensitive areas
>> then it will be worth the additional cost because the day
>> after the sky turns red with smoke it comes down to where
>> we must breath.
>> 
>> 	bliss
>
>Yep. and none of that new greeny nonsense, including LED bulbs, are 
>actually any better for the environment than the old versions anyway. 
>So it's simply a waste of money "look good" promotional exercise.
>
No doubt you actualy have figures to prove that assertion is
correct...