So Much for the Environment! Options

[Biker1]

Very intersting report on CFL

http://www.thebriefingroom.com/archives/20...ry_in_cfls.html

Ooeeerrr!

We're all in the kack now then.

Better all get off to Barry's first thing in the morning!

But hang on............. what happens when he runs out?

(I wonder how much he will sell the last bulb for )

Probably go underground.....................'ere Barry, 'ow much can you do me a 100W incandescent for....under the counter like?

[Hugh Saskin]

Ooeeerrr!

Probably go underground.....................'ere Barry, 'ow much can you do me a 100W incandescent for....under the counter like?

Pssss - I've got some stashed by my electric meter - 10 sovs a throw, no questions asked, ok?

[Biker1]

Pssss - I've got some stashed by my electric meter - 10 sovs a throw, no questions asked, ok?

Could make a killing on ebay

[Strafin]

In my lounge I have 2 Sainsburys basic 60w lamps attached to dimmers. In my spare bedroom, and main bedroom, I have energy saving Phillips lamps, on regular switches. All went in at the same time, guess which ones I have replaced since they went in. So I have used twice as many energy savers, surely this can't be better?

[Biker1]

And energy savers take a lot more manufacturing, and have a higher carbon footprint, so anyone not using the old style lamps are as guilty of destroying our earth, for us and our children.

So what you are saying is Mr. Forkin is actually HELPING the environment by stocking these bulbs?

Surely someone somewhere has done a great deal of research into both types of lamp before recommending we ditch the incandescent?

I'm confused now.

[Hugh Saskin]

Does anyone else remember installing in a fit of frugality, I suppose, the 30 watt bulbs which were readily obtainable in the 80s - the 1980s that is? No wonder my eyesight is rubbish nowadays....

[On the edge]

Does anyone else remember installing in a fit of frugality, I suppose, the 30 watt bulbs which were readily obtainable in the 80s - the 1980s that is? No wonder my eyesight is rubbish nowadays....

Can go back further, my Gran used 25 watt bulbs - on the stairs and in the bedrooms. Not that they were ever used! She was 'wired up' in the mid 60s - having survived with gas lights - one in lounge one in kitchen. Didn't do her much harm; a school teacher and an avid reader.

[Biker1]

Barry stocks candles too.

(Not sure if they are the low carbon variety.)

[JeffG]

Barry stocks candles too.

(Not sure if they are the low carbon variety.)

He also stocks in-line power connectors for people (like me) who slice through the cable with their hedge cutters. Apparently he sells loads

[Hugh Saskin]

Time for the classic fork candles sketch then - or forkins sketch - now?

[dannyboy]

You call them lamps, - just to be different - so good for you. In Oz, they call them globes, witness going to a shop and asking for bulbs the first time - that's just what you were offered - flower bulbs. In the UK think they will be known as bulbs for a long while yet, though.

having worked in the electrical contracting trade, I can tell you they are lamps.

[dannyboy]

Since he's local - why not go round and tell him?

Having nerver been in his shop in the 31 years I have lived in Newbury, I'm not about to start. He knows what he's doing, anyway.

[Hugh Saskin]

having worked in the electrical contracting trade, I can tell you they are lamps.

So why does everbody else call them bulbs?

[Hugh Saskin]

Having nerver been in his shop in the 31 years I have lived in Newbury, I'm not about to start. He knows what he's doing, anyway.

Nerver - surely you ain't frightened of him?

[Sarah]

And mine. I went there and bought something last Saturday; I wish I had not now.

SHAME ON YOUR BARRY FORKIN; WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP DEFEAT CLIMATE CHANGE??

And I suppose dumping the millions of bulbs still in warehouses around the country would be doing that?

Does it really matter who sells them?

Some people who wax lyrical about energy saving light bulbs do little else to save energy. It never occurs to them to turn down the thermostat, switch off TV sets in empty rooms, use the washing line instead of the tumble dryer and recycle whenever possible.

[GMR]

And I suppose dumping the millions of bulbs still in warehouses around the country would be doing that?

Does it really matter who sells them?

Some people who wax lyrical about energy saving light bulbs do little else to save energy. It never occurs to them to turn down the thermostat, switch off TV sets in empty rooms, use the washing line instead of the tumble dryer and recycle whenever possible.

I've got loads of 100 and 60 watt bulbs in my house (stored) and I use energy savers.

[Sarah]

I've got loads of 100 and 60 watt bulbs in my house (stored) and I use energy savers.

Try recycling them by giving them to neighbours.

[On the edge]

If I'm being really honest - the only reason I ever fitted energy saving bulbs was because the old 'candle type' ones kept blowing - admitted the very cheapest type!

[GMR]

Try recycling them by giving them to neighbours.

They all use the new type. Besides i am sure i will use them eventually in the next couple of hundred years.

[spartacus]

Some people who wax lyrical about energy saving light bulbs do little else to save energy. It never occurs to them to turn down the thermostat, switch off TV sets in empty rooms, use the washing line instead of the tumble dryer and recycle whenever possible.

Or they wax lyrical about how using energy savers could save the world... then bugger off to New Zealand to watch the whales or look at receding glaciers (flying Club Class of course and helping dump megatons of aviation filth into the atmosphere) Although that does help give a nice red sunset sometimes....

These minor tweaks are all cobblers really without the really BIG decisions being made.

I've got a 100W bulb in the dining room.... but it's on a dimmer switch and only comes on full blast when I need it.