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Stewards of the Earth
explicit:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 13 Feb 2015, 23:17 ---Personally, I'm more worried about monoculture, and people like Monsanto owning the imaginary property rights to our food, than I am about the safety of such foods. I wash everything anyhow, but I can't stand the idea of farmers not being able to save seeds for the next year, even though there is genetic drift happening which causes them to get sued into oblivion, or indenture.
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Which is why Monsanto is continually voted one of the worst companies in America. They have lost the last couple to Comcast though.
LTK:
I think EA was in the top spot for a good while above both of them.
--- Quote from: explicit on 13 Feb 2015, 22:39 ---I'm with the people who say a GMO will give you cancer because of it's structure though. That and even if you try to stay away from all GMOs I can almost guarantee that you eat them on a daily basis.
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Wait, are you sure you wrote this right? You think a GMO will give you cancer?
explicit:
--- Quote from: LTK on 14 Feb 2015, 02:28 ---I think EA was in the top spot for a good while above both of them.
--- Quote from: explicit on 13 Feb 2015, 22:39 ---I'm with the people who say a GMO will give you cancer because of it's structure though. That and even if you try to stay away from all GMOs I can almost guarantee that you eat them on a daily basis.
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Wait, are you sure you wrote this right? You think a GMO will give you cancer?
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Yeah, I forgot the "not" I often write so fast I skip over words, my bad!
pwhodges:
Carl_E suggested I copy my blog post here:
My kitchen is lit by twelve 50W low-voltage halogen lamps. Well, it was; today I replaced them with twelve 6W mains-voltage LED lamps (removing the transformers took most of the time). I now have the same or slightly higher light levels, and more uniform, because some of the halogens had lost brightness with age and not all had the same beam width. I calculate that the saving in electricity consumption will be about £1 a day - for a capital outlay of under £120 (bulbs and GU10 tails for the fittings).
I have another room with similar lights and usage which I will make the same change to soon, and a third that is little used so can be left till last.
Eighteen months ago I put into a new extension what at that time were the first LED lights I'd seen whose quality was satisfactory for domestic living. The new bulbs each cost one fifth as much money - that's how fast things have changed.
I now also have LED bulbs in my desk lamps and in corridors. Lighting is a major part of many people's electricity usage these days, as higher and higher standards of illumination are expected. Changes that cut the cost by a factor of seven while additionally decreasing wastage associated with the short lifetime of incandescent bulbs are a significant and now reasonably affordable way to help reduce the pressure on resources.
Carl-E:
I'm wondering about LED performance in extreme cold. I have many twisty CFL lights, and they cut our consumption by quite a bit. One of them is a yellow bug light on the back porch.
Now, the old one (lasted about 8 years) was a regular twist in a yellow shell. The shell would hold in enough of the bulb's own heat so that it shone about as brightly in severe cold as it did in warmer temperatures. The same is true of the two CFL floodlights I have aimed into the yard and the street (for the steps up into the house). A CFL in a floodlight reflector and lens.
But when the bug light burned out, I couldn't get a new one in a shell like the old one. So I have a yellow painted twisty CFL. And in the severe cold we've been having, it's not giving much more light than a night light bulb! The one in the garage is about the same - it's a 100 watt rated (so about 26 watts), but shines like a 20 watt bulb when the temperature's near 0 F. It just never warms up!
Does anyone know - before I go investing in them for the outside lights - how LED bulbs perform in severe cold?
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