At a time of such great uncertainty, when the US Goverment feels the need to expand it's powers to include indefinite detention without trial and torture of its own citizens, there are clearly huge changes on the horizon.
The big picture is too depressing today (as usual), so I'm looking for ways to limit humanity's destructive wastefulness beyond crossing my fingers and hoping for the so-called "paradigm shift" (which ain't gonna come soon or without intense human suffering). Let's focus on what we can do right now, painlessly and easily to make things a little better: changing our fucking lightbulbs.
As this infographic clearly shows, incandescent light bulbs are an ancient and wasteful technology: they have a short service life and convert more energy into unwanted heat than light.
CFL bulbs are a lot more efficient than incandescent bulbs, but CFLs put out unnatural light, cause "dirty power" related problems (google it), and contain a seriously toxic Mercury vapor.
LED lights bulbs use less than half the power of CFLs, last 5x longer, put out more natural light, and offer many other benefits. Check it out...
The big picture is too depressing today (as usual), so I'm looking for ways to limit humanity's destructive wastefulness beyond crossing my fingers and hoping for the so-called "paradigm shift" (which ain't gonna come soon or without intense human suffering). Let's focus on what we can do right now, painlessly and easily to make things a little better: changing our fucking lightbulbs.
As this infographic clearly shows, incandescent light bulbs are an ancient and wasteful technology: they have a short service life and convert more energy into unwanted heat than light.
CFL bulbs are a lot more efficient than incandescent bulbs, but CFLs put out unnatural light, cause "dirty power" related problems (google it), and contain a seriously toxic Mercury vapor.
LED lights bulbs use less than half the power of CFLs, last 5x longer, put out more natural light, and offer many other benefits. Check it out...
