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Old May 15th, 2008, 04:50 PM   #33 (permalink)
Kenneth R.
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Man, you sure are pissed off. Instead of trying to club me over the head while you froth at the mouth with hate, calm down and discuss. This is exactly the problem with the whole environmental debate. People jump straight to the conclusion and the result is bad legislation.

You say ethanol is a moot point. I've already said that at least 3 times. We agree.

What makes you certain that the price of LED bulbs will come down? Do you have any physical or financial basis for that conjecture? And as I've already mentioned several times now, savings are not the entire point. While I may save money in electrical bills and save useable energy by switching to LED, I'll pay more at the store for each bulb, and I won't get the quality of lighting that I would with incandescent. Many times now I've mentioned novel ideas like color temperature, emission spectrum, and Diamond45 and I both emphasized the importance of unwanted flickering. These are not cursory issues and they must all be addressed before I would switch to LED. Because of how LED works (and unless it goes through a major restructure - essentially a completely different technology that isn't diode based, and that won't happen) the flicker problem will never be solved.
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