How to Replace Incandescents with Warm, Dimmable Light
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 04.19.07
Now that governments are banning incandescent lights, we offer this solution to everyone who whines is concerned about Compact Fluorescents' colour balance or dimmability. As your last incandescents burn out you can convert them into these very warm, very dimmable lighting units, just adjust the length of the wick. Additional benefits include the ability to go completely off the electrical grid, and to keep old lightbulbs out of the landfill sites.
If you do not want to make your own, the unit shown is the Edisun Lamp from Opossum in Germany, designed as an homage to Thomas Edison, which you can buy from Singulier for 65 euros. ::NotCot 3926
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On the plus side, as the wick burns and releases its carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, you'll contribute to Global Warming, so your heating bill will incrementally be reduced by even that much more.
Vote: Not Green.
So what about the fuel? Even if it's a bio fuel, the efficiency of an incandescent bulb is higher than a flame like that... Not quite the sustainable solution, although the design is very nice indeed.
Just for comparison: if you go to wikipedia, it has an article on Luminous efficacy (link), and it shows you that a regular candle (which is comparable to an oil lamp) is about 30 times less efficent than an incandescent lamp... Even if we take an oil lamp to be 3x more efficient than a candle (link), it's still uses as much energy as ten incandescent lamps of the same light rating! (or 40 CFL's for that matter)
Makes you wonder how this got posted on a this site.
It wouldn't be all the advertissments for lamp sellers and lightbulb merchants that appear right below this post, would it?
Shame.
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editor note: The ads you see are Google Adsense (you can look it up). They are automated ads, we have no control over what they display and they do not affect the content we write.
Maybe you should re-read the Google AdSense FAQ.
In point of fact, you have complete control over what ads appear on your website and have the ability to screen out offensive advertissements from lamp merchants and lightbulb websites.
Of course, you'd have to give up the revenue also.
http://www.google.com/services/adsense_tour/page7.html
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editor note: What I meant is that at the time we are writing the content, we do no know which ads google will display so it doesn't affect our content. We alreayd have blocked a bunch of ads for hummers and such, but we can start trying to block all the thousands of sites that sell lamps and whatnot - it would be a full-time job and we're a small team.
Oh, c'mon! Get over yourselves with the "whining" thing already. You'll notice that most of us who were complaining about how CFLs still have a long way to go know about that because we were still actually using them, even with their faults. They're not perfect, so why treat 'em as such? The holier-than-thou thing is so off-putting; seriously. Are we supposed to praise a product simply because it's green, and ignore where there's room for improvement? Yeah, that'll make the green movement go far.
And what a silly, overpriced, overpackaged (though pretty), inefficient product. Is that really the best you can come up with as retort?
Use adsense for firefox and hide all ads if you don't like what they may show.
Oh come on! It's just a cute tongue in cheek article at a cute, but not very green, product made out of a modern icon of wastefulness.
To be even greener, buy one 2nd hand. I have reluctantly put mine up for sale on Amazon.