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Those light bulbs took like 10x the power for the same amount of light and dumped 100ws of heat to light a room in a time you might be trying to cool it. I don'
by kcb 3y ago
Those light bulbs took like 10x the power for the same amount of light and dumped 100ws of heat to light a room in a time you might be trying to cool it. I don't think there's any reasonable way to argue incandescent light bulbs as the environmentally friendly option.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoDepends if you are calculating the costs in the summer or the winter. My point is you are comparing to cheap garbage that took components and rare metals from around the world shipped on tankers to China where they were produced in harmful conditions, then shipped back around the world where they work for a year and are thrown in the landfill to sit for 1000. The cost of those lightbulbs is not nearly as easy as the efficiency sticker on the box.
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoI'd be willing to bet the embodied manufacturing energy in a shitty Walmart bulb is greater than the energy it will save over its short 18 month lifespan.
- XorNot 3y agoAlso frankly landfilled electronics are harmless. Climate change is on track to seriously mess up the world over the next 100 years. In that time, a bunch of these in landfill will..still be there, doing nothing. It's like the absurdity of worrying about land filled plastic waste: it's not actually the problem. It was oil in the ground before, now it's much less flowable oil in the ground again. It's the stuff getting everywhere else in the biosphere which is an issue, not material stably stored underground.
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoWhich means they were 100% efficient during winter.