Why doesn't Bush recommend for people to use florescent light bulbs to save electricity?
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While I have very very strong opinions on Bush's political agenda of robbing from the masses to give to his ultrarich handlers, I think it's best to focus on the technical side of your question regarding fluorescent bulbs verses incandescent bulbs.  Fluorescent bulbs (and yes, that's spelled right...lol) are four to six times as energy efficient as incandescent ones.  Meaning, for example, that a 15 watt Fl bulb produces as much light (in lumens) as a 60 watt Inc bulb.\n\nOk, great...we save three fourths of the energy...sounds good, right?  Sure...but it's not gonna happen.\n\nMany people won't switch because of up-front costs.  To replace all the light bulbs in your house would be a very very expensive feat.  Yes, it would save you a lot in the long run, but most of us just don't have that kind of investment money.  Another factor is that fluorescent light and incandescent light just isn't the same spectrum.  Most of us, in our own homes, prefer the warmer light provided by incandescent.  Think about how sterile a doctor's office, or a walmart, or an office, feels.  Not the way we want our homes to feel most of the time.  Switching may be smart money in the long run, but it's not really what most people would do given the choice.\n\nIf, by the way, you want to save massive amounts of energy...the way to do it would be to weather-strip every house in America...that's cheap to do and EVERYONE would like the result in their house!
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Alternate energy sources are our next step to stabilize our economy and lessen the dependence on other countries to provide us that need. However, they are extremely costly and hard to come by. Wind mills are a disaster in terms of the amount of space it needs to operate. Solar panels are not effecient everywhere, say Seattle or Alaska. Nuclear fission is the next step but since it is potentially dangerous as nuclear bombs, it's being closely monitored thus dampening the research process. I guess we are still depended on oil is because it is so universal and exremely easy to use and harness everywhere. I agree with you, if I had enough money to fund researches like these, I'd do it in a heartbeat!
200962
Turn off and on is the best way, change your bulbs to ones rated for Energysaving, change your appliances to Energuide branded.\n\nMake sure all your windows and doorways are sealed (helps with fires too!), adjust your heating and cooling for a moderate temperature
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She could be right assuming that the power sources are the same. You are drawing more current ( however slight which has the compound effect of causing more current draw) using both lamp and fan from the same source, thus producing more heat in that circuit ( heat produced is wasted engergy) It is unlikely unless you are doing this throughout your house that you would notice the difference in your electrical bill. Using two separate circuits and devices you theoretically would produce a slightly less amount of heat thus less wasted energy. Remember we are talking minute amounts of difference in heat produced.
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I agree with Day Light Savings. I don't think it is stupid. In summer, I don't want to wake up in mid afternoon. Also I like long evenings.
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Modern day systems are designed to use very little power actually..loaded for bear or not. printers use a heck of a lot more and a server is a computer generally speaking.the power use would epend on what you made it accomplish ie: is it hosting a zillion things or just one?\nI think in either case a 100 watt bulb or two would probably burn more energy if left on constantly than a comp does, especially if you set it to go to sleep or power down when you're not using it
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Safety, colour, energy efficiency, use of the space, luminosity, age of room users, dimming and mood, position of bulbs, light shades.\n\nFluorescents are more energy efficient than incandescents (20% compared to 5%) so they are cheaper.\n\nAreas for close up work should be lit more brightly. Intensity decreases according to distance from bulb^2 so intensity 2 m from a bulb is 1/4 of intensity at 1m.\n\nOlder people need more light. A 50 year old needs four times as much light as a 10yr old for the same task (This is why children can read by torchlight under the bed.) Make sure the occupant of a desk does not shadow their light source.\n\nIncandescent bulbs have more red -yellow in their emission spectrum, fluorescents vary but white ones are similar to daylight. Note: the apparent colours of furnishings can change dramatically with a slightly different colour bulb.\n\nFeature lighting can be used to highlight objects eg plants, books, artworks on a shelf, hidden strip lights (eg under pelmets) soften the strip light.\n\nIn many settings, several wall mounted lights create a better atmosphere than a single central light.\n\nCheck that light shades don't colour the light or cast annoying / weird shadows around the room. This is more likely if the light is the only source in the room
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The light bulb can't be screwed in by the Bush administration, regardless of how many people or tax dollars they throw at it.  Owing to their lack of credible intelligence concerning the appropriate strategy to pursue, they will attempt to screw the bulb in upside down.  As it would otherwise entail admitting a mistake, the administration will stay the course indefinitely, trying in vain to get an upside down light bulb into the socket.\n\nThose who point out the error of their ways will be labeled "liberal defeatists" who hate freedom and who want the United States to crumble. Their telephone records will seized and Dick Cheney may ultimately shoot them.\n\nIt doesn't matter what the Republicans do to us as long as we remember that it's done in the name of freedom.  God Bless America  (and God help us survive this incompetent boob)
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The light bulb uses radiation which is not as effective as convection in this case.
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if President Bush is consistent with his history of setting the agenda of debate on current issues he will recognize certainly that the light bulb needs changing. He'll give a speech somewhere alluding to the urgent need to change the light bulb thus getting the country motivated and more importantly, on his side. Instinctively the Dem's will savagely oppose President Bush's recommendation to change the light bulb and throw up numerous lame reasons for the opposition. Eventually, just as Mr. Bush intended he'll get that light bulb changed but in the process he'll have made the Dem's look once again, rediculously bad in the eyes of the country  for being against the urgent and necessary issue of illumination....what a crafty guy dat Buuush!~~~
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This is a perfect question for the section called 'corporations'.\n\nThe answer is 'NO'. Even though you leave the light switch on, the burned out bulb breaks the circuit and uses no electricity.
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I am a certified electrican btw.  A ballast in a flourescent light fixture provides the right voltage supply to the flourescent light tube.  The ballast is basically a step up - or step down transformer, which means just an increase or decrease in voltage to the lighting tube.  The ballast also controlles the voltage/power from the actual power supply from the building, beacuse this power can fluxuate up and down, and/or have a very messy sign-wave.  The volage must stay in a certin small limit range for the light to work properly.  Ballast are getting better for the quaility of light they put ie, colour, less flicker.  And they are also now more power efficent - ballast with a T8 marking on them are the newer kind, old T5's can be very hot to the touch and could also contain PCB's with are harmfull to your health.  Contact an electrian if you find an old ballast that is leaking , that does not have the saying "PCB free, or doesnot contain PCB's.  LOL this is prolly more then you asked for but here it is anyway.  And if this isnt enough here is an intesnse explination of a ballast \nhttp://home.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question337.htm&url=http://www.thekrib.com/Lights/fluor-tech.html
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you gotta convince people that not only can they make a difference in a good way, such as being environmentally friendly, or patriotic by not giving money to terrorist muslim countries, you have to show that it is easy and if not actually profitable at least it wont cost them more money.  large corporations are even getting into the act, the scale they work at it does make sense and saves money.  Just convincing some people that going out and buying a seven dollar energy effiecient light bulb would save them money in the long run is a tough sell in the united states, the land of instant gratification and no long range planning.  I guess you just have to crunch the numbers and throw it in their faces over and over again.
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I'd probably choose luminescent due to the cheapness and effectivity of the lightbulb; I personally don't like the light a incandescent light bulb gives off.
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This is completely dependant on the atomic structure of the source filament. Once at capacity, the atoms will only give off photonic energy at a specific rate that is inherant to that specific type of atom. Most household filaments are designed to handle standard electrical current,without being at full capacity (atomically).\n\nSo in a standard household bulb, it will release more photonic energy and appear brighter.\n\nIf it is already operating at max capacity (atomically)\nthen there will be no change to the appearance of the bulb, because the atoms are already filled and giving off photons as fast as possible.
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Electricity is a tool only to be wielded by the Lord himself.  Man is not capable of controling lightning and to harness it within bulbs is blasphemous.