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The cartel required 1,000 hour lifetimes, but do note that they could not do anything about the physical reality that higher lifetime = lower energy efficiency.
by ars 7y ago
The cartel required 1,000 hour lifetimes, but do note that they could not do anything about the physical reality that higher lifetime = lower energy efficiency.
People talk about it sometimes as if they made bulbs worse, but they didn't.
- deogeo 7y agoBetter not give consumers the choice though, just in case.
- A2017U1 7y agoPeople in the 30's cared about energy efficiency?
- ars 7y agoElectricity was never free. It was a tradeoff between the cost of the bulb, vs the cost of the electricity used to power it. The cartel tried to set the efficiency figure such that it wasn't worth it to run the bulb at lower efficiencies for longer life. As much as they are criticized they seemed to have calculated exactly the right figure: Bulbs today at still 1,000 hours. No one wants a lower efficiency bulb, and shorter lifetimes are too annoying. If you really want to know more, read the wikipedia article someone else linked, then read the sources it's based on.
- carapace 7y ago> the physical reality that higher lifetime = lower energy efficiency I don't usually do this, but uh, citation needed?