#2 2008-10-05 10:33:52
I'm not a Never Green, but I'm also a person who won't buy something because it's green... I've got nothing wrong with hybrid technology, but so far all of the hybrid vehicles are boring and under powered... I bought a couple of the flourescent bulbs based on the longer life span claim, but don't like the look of the flourescent light... I'm more than happy to go green if I don't have to lower the quality of the things I own doing it...
Offline
#3 2008-10-05 16:03:16
Dirckman wrote:
I bought a couple of the flourescent bulbs based on the longer life span claim, but don't like the look of the flourescent light...
That's the main reason I hate them. I even have tissue paper in the kitchen light because it alters the hue of the ceiling fixture enough to be tolerable.
Offline
#4 2008-10-05 16:14:10
pALEPHx wrote:
Dirckman wrote:
I bought a couple of the flourescent bulbs based on the longer life span claim, but don't like the look of the flourescent light...
That's the main reason I hate them. I even have tissue paper in the kitchen light because it alters the hue of the ceiling fixture enough to be tolerable.
My biggest mistake with the flourescent bulbs was to put them in above my bathroom mirror.... Doing that made every zit I've had since my freshman year in high school reappear....
Offline
#5 2008-10-05 17:47:21
I, too, refuse to buy an item simply because it's been labeled "green" -- for one, these products are usually overpriced and work poorly; for another, greenwashing (pdf link) is rampant -- but I'd love to punch this egocentric asshole in the dick. The author seems to have found the most colossal tool possible to interview for this story.
"I don't care about the environmental reasons and I'll tell you why," Coverley said. "All this stuff about carbon emissions, no one really knows about the output of the sun and yet it's the single most important input behind global warming . . . Are the Chinese going to be environmentalists? Are the Indians going to be environmentalists? Are the Russians? I don't think so."
Offline
#6 2008-10-05 21:15:07
pALEPHx wrote:
Dirckman wrote:
I bought a couple of the flourescent bulbs based on the longer life span claim, but don't like the look of the flourescent light...
That's the main reason I hate them. I even have tissue paper in the kitchen light because it alters the hue of the ceiling fixture enough to be tolerable.
Apart from the spectrum distortion, which is easily fixed (just check at the pet store and see all the different choices to be had by owners of freshwater fish, saltwater fish, planted aquaria, reptiles, etc.) by the phosphors inside the tubes, the biggest problems with fluorescents are the lack of shadows and eyestrain/fatigue. Because they are not a point source, like typical incandescents, shadows are more diffuse and make things flatter in appearance. Even the coily bulb-replacement CFLs have this problem. The fact that they turn on and off 60 times a second causes your pupils and lenses all kinds of stress having to constantly readjust. I'd think that somehow, somewhere, some egghead would have figured out a way for a ballast to power the damned things more or less constantly, or maybe have opposing photon emitters exactly off-phase to each other. But, what the hell do I know? I'm only a Kindergarten teacher.
Offline
#7 2008-10-06 10:14:08
I just want to save money. For me. I don't want to save the planet, the whales or the lesser spiny goatsucker. I just want to spend less money on electricity, water, gas, etc. I don't care about miles per gallon, I care about miles per dollar. If I could burn spotted owls in my wood stove to save on the heating bill, I would.
Now pander to my demographic, dammit!
Offline
#9 2008-10-07 10:17:48
You can't make a bazillion cups of coffee a day and not use a little water.
Offline
