lake mead to dry up?

I here you Eric, when I was in Panama on a shoot 2 months a go, we rented a Toyota Hilux diesel truck.

Hot DAMN what I wouldn't do for one of those here....damn EPA import restrictions....
 
Interesting discussion. I've seen changes in climate in my life too. Twenty plus years ago I went hiking way up on Mt. Hood here in Oregon, and many many times since. The glaciers have definitely shrunk in that time frame. I've seen it with my own eyes, and I don't mean annual snow melt differences. I mean true glaciers. It's alarming.

We've converted almost all of our light bulbs in our house to fluorescent. I'm wondering if anyone here has attempted to install any kind of LED lights in their house? This seems like the future for certain.

In Medford (Oregon) the local municipality is putting up large solar panels out of cost efficiency. The panels came down in price, and they estimate even with maintenance, that they will save thousands of dollars per year over having so much hydroelectric and coal fired power. So there are some good signs on the horizon.
 
We've converted to CFL in every fixture that will take them. Anyone else notice they get nowhere near the hours they're rated? Then, you're stuck with a mercury-laced lump that nobody is recycling yet.

I like them, but they aren't the magic bullet. LEDs have a ways to come before they'll be appropriate for decorating in my home. I don't live in an episode of Miami Vice.

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We've converted to CFL in every fixture that will take them. Anyone else notice they get nowhere near the hours they're rated? Then, you're stuck with a mercury-laced lump that nobody is recycling yet.
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Have you noticed a significant amount in savings?

I can't stand fluorescent lights, I never turn mine on in my office, don't think I could use them in my apartment.
 
No. We have a pool and the HVAC is all over the map depending on the time of year, so it's really difficult to track anything.

All I know is that we're not getting 10,000 hours out of them. Based on that, I should be able to run one continuously for 416 days. Based on 6 hours a day, 1,666 days. That's 4.56 years of operation per globe.

I've lived in my home for five years and replaced almost every CFL three or four times in the two years we've been using them. We have modern electrical service and cycle-up / cycle-down isn't supposed to affect modern CFLs.

Anyway, the manufacturer's math doesn't seem to tell the true story.

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