Friday, January 01, 2010
Light-emitting wallpaper disaster on the horizon
It was Angela Merkel who said openly that she could not see very well with the low-energy lightbulbs which we now find everywhere. I have low-energy lightbulbs all over my home and I cannot see well with them either. These new bulbs generally have nothing like the calculated equivalence to tungsten that their packets so optimistically give, and so for an equivalent illumination there is far less energy saving than people believe.
Be that as it may, saving energy is still important, and if people can put up with glowing walls instead of point sources of light the energy saving could matter. But as for saving the planet ? To say that, is only to help promotors to make money at the expense of people's eyesight.
IMO: I may give the new light-emitting wallpaper a try, but I think it would be far better if energy saving could be brought about in other ways. Getting rid of SUVs and other often pointless and dangerous 'luxury' vehicles is only one of these. Spending of 16 billion dollars to provide clean stoves in the third world would cost the West almost unnoticeably little and could help a lot.
Be that as it may, saving energy is still important, and if people can put up with glowing walls instead of point sources of light the energy saving could matter. But as for saving the planet ? To say that, is only to help promotors to make money at the expense of people's eyesight.
IMO: I may give the new light-emitting wallpaper a try, but I think it would be far better if energy saving could be brought about in other ways. Getting rid of SUVs and other often pointless and dangerous 'luxury' vehicles is only one of these. Spending of 16 billion dollars to provide clean stoves in the third world would cost the West almost unnoticeably little and could help a lot.
# posted by uv : 3:58 PM
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