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> Find everything that eats fossil fuels and electrify it You start off with a free lunch fallacy. Open an led bulb sometime. You’ll find a large heat sink, a
by SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
> Find everything that eats fossil fuels and electrify it
You start off with a free lunch fallacy.
Open an led bulb sometime. You’ll find a large heat sink, at least one fiberglass circuit board, 30-100 electronics components with their own printing / cases / production footprints, ROHS-exempt parts have heavy metals like lead and mercury, you’ll find metal stampings and plastic coated wire, there will be plastic lenses and injection molded mounts, there will be LEDs themselves of course which have tens of thousands of hours time into their design that come from specialized facilities... all the production and shipping and testing and development that goes into each bulb.
... remember old light bulbs? Glass, a wire, a metal thread.
Remember the argument that LED bulbs will last 10 years? They don’t. Tell me... which one do you think will be better in a landfill?
I still think it’s the right move to go with LED bulbs overall - but I’ve been around the world, I’d like to think I have a sense of scale.
When I see people write “just make it electric” i think of things like but not limited to my bulb example and I’m confident that person doesn’t understand much on making things at scale.
- tito 7y agoNever said it would be easy. But fossil fuel powered light bulbs aren't the long term solution, and renewable-powered bulbs definitely are.