Like New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and the US, the UK is phasing out incandescent bulbs. But people being people, some cling to what they know, however (relatively) wasteful and expensive that may be.
Interesting that this article, like those in NZ media, is framed in negative terms despite all the manifest benefits for making this move. I wonder if Crosby / Textor is helping the UK Conservatives nationally as they helped in the recent London elections?
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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I was listening to the radio while tidying my desk last night & turned on the light with the low energey bulbs. The radio immediately went crackly. I turned the light off and the radio returned to normal.
ReplyDeleteI'm not using this to argue against against using the bulbs - just to point out they have their shortcomings and need some improvements before we have no alternative.
hp: Interesting. :-) I've never had that problem, but I'm sure there are good brand / bad brands, properly made / faultily made bulbs. There are a variety of exmaplations for that. I have tended to use the Philips bulbs and had few problems since 1998. I avoid Osram CFLs. The few I bought, I threw out. I have bough some from the Warehouse a couple of years ago for $2.99 each. Until April, I still had the first one I ever bought - 10 years ago - and used it in a shed outside for the dim glow it still threw (they do fade over the years).....but it still worked as of that time. I left it behind when I sold the farm.
ReplyDeleteNever had any trouble with radios, though. If you have other CFLs and the radio is portable, you might try moving it around to see if the effect is just on that circuit in the house or from every CFL bulb. Proximity matters, too, I suppose. I wouldn't have any radios within 1 metre of a CFL. The stereo in the lounge is about 5 feet from a standing lamp with 2 x 20w (100w) CFLs.
The good thing is these bulbs are using up mercury that would otherwise end up in our oceans, poisoning our fish and other aquatic friends vital for saving our planet as well.
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