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The Daring Dufas[_6_]

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On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:06:35 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

ransley wrote:
On Apr 23, 3:00 pm, keith wrote:
On Apr 23, 2:35 pm, ransley wrote:

On Apr 23, 7:19 am, Tegger wrote:
ransley wrote :
On Apr 20, 5:25 pm, Tegger wrote:
I am happy to leave CFLs on the store shelf for others to buy.
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Tegger
And you are so blissfully happy paying 75% more for electricity for a
apliance that outputs near 95% of its energy consumed as heat.
Yep. Because in actual dollar terms, that 75% is a trivial amount of
money.
Run 11-100 w incandesants
Most of our incandescents are 40 and 60 watt. We do have a couple of
Tri-lites that go up to 150, but they're normally on at the 100W
setting.
and be happy knowing you AC this summer has to
remove that extra 1000w of heat
Well, that's part of the point. Generally speaking, when I need my
bulbs, the A/C is off. When I need my A/C, the bulbs are off.
Moreover, in the winter, when the need for the bulbs is greatest, the
heat from the bulbs reduces the need for the furnace, so my gas bill is
lower.
And we follow the ancient (and apparently forgotten) precept of turning
the lights off when we leave a room, so there are few bulbs left on
regularly. With incandescents, I can do that. Snap, it's on. Snap, it's
off. No waiting.
CR and Popular Mechanics Mag did
reviews and dont agree with your happiness on color rendition of life
expectancy.
I see threads in this groups with comaplints about color unless you buy
/just/ the right kind of bulb. And being in people's homes with CFLs, I
have to disagree with CR. Also, CR is hard left-wing and as religiously
"green" as they come, so their judgements are unlikely to be bias-free.
With HDs 9 yr warranty my HD soft whites will be free
forever , be happy, stay ignorant.
Except that you had to pay ten times the cost of incandescents to get
that 9-year warranty...
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Tegger
Every building ive covnverted to cfls the electric bill dropped
50-60%,
Cool! They save money on my heat pump, water heater, and oven, too!
Hows that work?

IOW, you're a liar.

I guess you have money to burn because I know of no one who
would not love a 50% reduction. The heat is generated, you put it in,
whether or not the bulb is off, but who only runs the AC when no
lights are on, kinda like torchure isnt it! I bet you never did a
cost comparison of BTUs from Ng to electric because for most all the
US electric is easily now double the cost of gas, you never thought
why electric furnaces and boilers dont sell in your area did you. And
at 1.85 for a 4 pack of cfls, well you just again prove you dont know
any facts you speak of.
I repeat, you need to learn to *think*.- Hide quoted text -

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Dam what kind of Dumb ****s you and teger are, totaly stupid
ingnoramuses. FACT, 94-96 % of the power consumed by incandesants is
output as HEAT, not light you see or use. CFLs are 65-75% more
efficent. FACT, 11, 100 w incandesants output the same heat as a 1000w
resistance heater. FACT, for most of the US Ng is now about half the
price of Ng per BTU. FACT, incandesants waste 75% more energy than
Flourescents. So keep heating your house this summer with
incandesants, and keep running that AC more to remove that heat your
incandesants enter in your home, just Keep a wastin and paying a
higher electric bill. Im laughing hard at this stupidity you two keep
posting.
Holy cow, a 100w light bulb which draws less than 1 amp puts
out more heat than a 1,000w heater drawing 9 amps? I should
get rid of the CFL lights I have and heat the house with 100w
light bulbs next winter and save a lot of money, thanks for
the tip! Dang! I'm gonna save so much money I'll have to call
the newspapers and TV stations so they can inform everyone that
the energy crisis is over! I knew the coming government ban on
100w light bulbs was a conspiracy by government and energy
companies to rip of consumers. SOUND THE ALARM! WE WON'T LET
THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!

TDD
Mr Dufus - I don't think you READ his diatribe very well. He DID say
11 100 watt bulbs. In his (undeserved, perhaps) defense.

Perhaps it was his proper use of punctuation regarding Fact 11.
Look, closely, at, his, use, of, the, comma. To me it meant he
was writing about fact number 11. Some humor is too esoteric.

TDD