31 May
2008
31 May
'08
7:26 p.m.
If you're worried about a ban on incandescent
bulbs for the purpose
of current-limiting device, then stockpile a bunch of them for your
own use.
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
Doesn't make the ban any saner.
I think that the power savings is worth the annoyances
of a ban.
What power savings? During the heating season, there is no savings for
me. None. This is because I, like much of Quebec, heat with
electricity, so any power saved by light bulbs will just get drawn by
baseboard heaters instead. (I think the theory behind Hydro-Quebec's
pushing of CF is to be able to sell the saved power to the USA at
substantially higher rates than the (controlled) domestic rate. But if
so, they either haven't thought about electric heat, they are trusting
that enough people heat other ways, or they are looking for savings
during the summer.)
...none of
which function, electrically, like incandescent bulbs.
Halogen bulbs do. (Well, not
cheap once the ban hits, which is the problem.)
A "ban" such as those
proposed is only a ban on sales of new bulbs,
not on *using* them...