4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
8:17 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I use lights with multiple fixtures and put in a mix. And I've certainly
got my incandescent stockpile. That at least gives me the wider spectrum
and warmth partially.
Meanwhile, the California State Ass'y voted to ban plastic bags, so that
we can all either cut down trees and pay a nickel each, or pay the store
a couple bucks for cheapo 'reusable' bags that tear at the slightest glance.
I'll just be making more frequent trips for smaller shopping lists to avoid
using bags at all. Environmental conservation is fun!
Huh? Why? I never use plastic or paper bags. I just take a backpack or
a set of bike panniers (or in extremis both) to the store. Much easier
and comfier to carry, too, and they get used hundreds or thousands of
times.
And yet I see thousands of people filling tends of thousands of
plastic carrier bags with their shopping every time. Why? They are
small, awkward, flimsy, harder to carry, a pain to deal with and
environmentally disastrous.
Everyone travels sometimes. *Everyone* has *some* luggage. Use it for
your shopping!
Disposable bags are just plain evil, nasty and stupid. I'd like to see
a surcharge of 10-20% or ?5 an item on all disposable grocery
packaging, whichever value is the greater. A tax on idiots too
damned dumb to take a bag to the shops with them.
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I've had plenty of fluorescents that barely
outlast incandescents,
despite manufacturers' MTBF claims. Plenty more that exhibit
weakened output after a few months. All of them seem to have output
even when new that's vastly less than the "incandescent equivalent"
rating claimed on the packaging.
I believe the Compact Fluorescents are also more sensitive to how
many times you turn them on and off. ?We have 3 kids, ages 2-7, I try
to put Incandescents where they'll be playing with the lights, and
Compact Fluorescents in other places.