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Three fiberglass circuit boards, one aluminum LED circut board, plastic covers and coatings, epoxies and coating compounds, capacitors, chips and transistors wi
by SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
Three fiberglass circuit boards, one aluminum LED circut board, plastic covers and coatings, epoxies and coating compounds, capacitors, chips and transistors with heavy metals, at least 100 unique components, aluminum heatsink housing... That'll only sit in a landfill for 10,000 years or so and took materials from all around the world to create.
Remember when lightbulbs were thin glass with a bit of wire?
At least the new LEDs are better, hiding their electronics in the screw base and the LEDs are placed on a strip.
- ilyt 4y agoI think the actual problem is that most of them are not made up to the possible LED reliability standard; they either overheat LEDs, cutting usable lifetime to fraction, or have controller/power supply failure before that. LED light bulb might be less ecological but having to produce 40x as much (including packing, shipping, storing etc) incandescent on top of higher energy production required ought to compensate enough for that. But if random LEDs customers buy burn out after few years for bad design reasons that's not great...