Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:36:51 +0100 (BST)
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
On 03/06/10
19:28, Tony Duell wrote:
Why isn't something similar done now. Have an
adapter containint eh
electronics which lasts for a long time, and just replace the
fluorescent
tube when it fails?
Profit.
The Engineer Says: "I just made a lightbulb that lasts a million hours!"
The MBA Says: "NO! Don't tell ANYONE about it. It'll kill the sales of
our existing two-thousand-hour-lifetime products!"
The Engineer Says: "What if we split the tube from the ballast? Then if
one fails, the customer can keep the other, working bit?"
The MBA Says: "People don't want to buy two separate parts. Also it's
more profitable if they have to swap the whole thing."
Is it me, or is most of the 'green' movement one big con?
It's not just you. The greenie movement is a religion, not a sensible
movement attempting to solve problems in rational ways. If they were the
latter, they would have been advocating nuclear power as soon as reducing
CO2 became a fad.
CO2 emissions have been a concern since the late 70s if not earlier, but
that didn't stop the greenies from lying about nuclear power at every
opportunity and essentially forcing the increased use of coal.
If the USA had built 10 new nuclear electricity generating plants a year
since 1980, our CO2 emissions would be 28% lower now, not to mention the
accumulated reduction in emissions over the last thirty years.
Arguably, the greenies caused global warming....
Jeff Walther