pnichols wrote:
Some of you can bad-mouth California till the cows come home ... but I'm still picking tomatoes in our garden and walking the dog without having to wear boots or ice cleats. We also pick the last of our apples in February.
That being said, nationally and internationally I wonder how the energy saved by LED-based home lightbulbs compares to the high profits that LED-based bulb manufacturers are making from the exorbitant profits they're raking in from those ridiculusly high priced LED-based replacement bulbs?
By the way, you can forget about the "approaching infinite lifetime" they advertise for those LED based bulbs ... the electronics required to support the LED chips inside don't last anywhere near "infinitely".
P.S. Right from the beginning incandescent light bulbs could have been made to last just about forever ... but the free enterprise system soon discovered that it had to intentionally limit incandescent lightbulb longevity in order to - you guessed it - maximize profits from incessant replacement by us peasant users.
I remember going to Edison office with my grandmother to pay the bill and exchange bulbs. You took in a dead bulb and they gave you a new bulb.
