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If the goal of the fine was to make sure power efficiency was good, they should have made a fine for having bad power efficiency, not a fine for lasting too lon
by Thorrez 2y ago
If the goal of the fine was to make sure power efficiency was good, they should have made a fine for having bad power efficiency, not a fine for lasting too long.
- viraptor 2y agoAt the time there was one way to make the usual commercial lightbulb and the only one the group was regulating. I don't think it would make any difference even if the threshold was lazy / technically wrong.
- Thorrez 2y agoI would think there would be a lot of variables that could be tweaked, such as shape, composition of the filament, gas, glass, filament support parts, thickness of the filament, shape of the filament, temperature that the filament was treated at.
- Workaccount2 2y agoThe fine was in industry speak because it was only for industry. This is a chronic problem where commoners read stuff they don't actually understand, but think they do, and then completely freak out about it.
- alanbernstein 2y agoIt sounds more like the chronic problem where rules are written without thinking very much about unintended consequences.
- Thorrez 2y ago"Industry speak" sounds like it's just a debate about terminology. But I'm not simply suggesting changing the terminology, I'm suggesting actually measuring something else.