Say bye-bye to the $1 light bulb

**Usarka** · 18th June 2008, 12:00

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

Hands up everyone who disposes of their batteries properly...

Point being? That it would be ok to make things toxic because people thought them away anyway?

**Flatcap** · 18th June 2008, 12:20

Originally Posted by mowgli

Some green idiot on Sunrise this morning dismissed the mercury issue by saying that we put mercury thermometers in our mouths every day and they're much worse. Bullshit!!! I haven't owned a mercury thermometer for more than a decade and the one we do have (digital) gets used about three or four times a year.

Yes - also I have about 100 light bulbs in my house.....ever so slightly more than the number of mercury thermometers.

**Flatcap** · 18th June 2008, 12:25

And the ambiance at Flatcap Castle will be compromised:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4587346a19716.html

**pzkpfw** · 18th June 2008, 13:01

Originally Posted by Usarka

Point being? That it would be ok to make things toxic because people thought them away anyway?

No! The exact opposite.

The greenies want to force these things on us, and have pie-in-the-sky ideas of how the down-sides will be dealt with.

No matter how many toxic bulb recycling station are set up - many people will still just chuck them in their normal household rubbish.

Perhaps sad, but that's reality.

For the power savings these bulbs give, why not just build another freakin' wind farm?

(Or get rid of that smelter to which the Bauxite is shipped from OZ (using diesel...))

**Ixion** · 18th June 2008, 15:34

Anyone want to try replacing the light in their fridge with one of those things?

And the flickering effect gives some people migraines (I'm told).

And, ultimately, where do the greens egt off, banning the old sort. By all means encourage people to use the new ones. But banning the old ones is way beyond what any government should have power to do.

I use some of the new ones, in palces where I don't want to ahve to change them often. But broken ones just go in the rubbish, I don't recycle (except for the inorganic collections , of course) . I can't be having with sorting rubbish at my time of life.

**vindy500** · 18th June 2008, 16:04

Originally Posted by Flatcap

Yes - also I have about 100 light bulbs in my house.....ever so slightly more than the number of mercury thermometers.

100 bulbs?

**Steam** · 18th June 2008, 18:34

It's not up to NZ, Australia is pressuring us to ban them so they can bring in their ban. Something to do with Trans-tasman trade laws.
So it wasn't our idea, it was theirs.

**imdying** · 18th June 2008, 18:40

Ironically, it's the inefficiency of incandescent bulbs that I rely on to heat my carbon fibre curing oven

**Steam** · 18th June 2008, 18:45

Originally Posted by imdying

Ironically, it's the inefficiency of incandescent bulbs that I rely on to heat my carbon fibre curing oven

What will the little girls do without incandescent bulbs to put in their plastic Easybake Muffin Ovens!?? They might turn into boys! HELLLLEN!

**FJRider** · 18th June 2008, 18:49

Originally Posted by SPman

Been in force over here for a year or so now - no big deal. Get over it people, it's the way the world is turning....

The world is TURNING ??? STOP it then ... I want to get off...

**Flatcap** · 19th June 2008, 08:45

This is just insanity

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectid=10517181

So I am going to freeze when I get out of the shower, piss all over the toilet floor in the night, and my Irish Stew will be the same temperature as my Guinness at the pub

**vifferman** · 19th June 2008, 11:02

Originally Posted by Flatcap

This is just insanity

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectid=10517181

So I am going to freeze when I get out of the shower, piss all over the toilet floor in the night, and my Irish Stew will be the same temperature as my Guinness at the pub

I'm going to be stocking up on incandescent buls before they're phased out. I don't want powersavers in our bathroom fittings, and the dimmers in the master bedroom and lounge are there for a purpose.
But you're right - it is insanity.
Their figures of power saving seem to be based on the average number of lightbulbs in a NZ house (28?) and an assumption that they'll all be on at once.
Also (furthermore), they forget that lighting is not a big part of the typical household power usage - hotwater and heating would be more. In our household, the PS3 would use more than the lights. In any case, who the fuck are 'they' to tell me what I can and cannot do? I pay my power bills, so I'll use the power for whatever I want to.

Fukkem.

I think I'll go and turn some lights on right now, kill a few baby furseal whales.