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Summary
Paul continues this week’s smackdown with Mark, Ashley, Katie, and Kyle, and moves on to reviewing his Building a Better World book, chapter 3.
This chapter is about light bulbs, and although there’s apparently three repetitions of the first paragraph pointing out their triviality, a lot of people seem quite dead set on discussing them to no end and such a point that if Paul was given the opportunity to infect the minds of everyone in the world with one bit of information, it would be to expose the propaganda of lightbulb companies to link their bulbs with saving the environment. Heck, they make so much dough from subsidies and other deals that they hand them out for free with a quick “energy audit” that can often be skipped completely (although to be fair, the one person in the group to try one did find that it actually helped reduce consumption a little). If you just want to save energy, get a clothes line.
If you want to reduce energy use exclusively from lighting, it’d be better to first look at your lighting habits – heck, Paul managed to get down to $8 of electricity used per year for lighting even when using incandescents! Another plus for incandescents is the fact that they nearly perfectly mimic natural sunlight during sunset, unlike most LEDs that are designed to fool the brain into thinking its daylight which can cause various problems related to sleep if you aren’t exposed to enough actual sunset. Despite all of Paul’s incandescent bias, LEDs actually pretty good in places that don’t need more heat, such as with Katie in Hawaii, but in cold places where the extra heat is almost always welcome, an incandescent is going to start pulling dual duty keeping the room warm.
Relevant Threads
Building a Better World in your Backyard by Paul Wheaton and Shawn Klassen-Koop
It is 2021 and incandescent is still better than LED
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