I just saw this on Yahoo:
"A California lawmaker wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent as part of California's groundbreaking initiatives to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
"The "How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act" would ban incandescent by 2012 in favor of energy-saving compact fluorescent."
There's more, of course.
It's the kind of legislative deal that used to be decided in smoke filled rooms, but they can't do that anymore either.
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Funny side story. One of my brothers in the 1970's worked for the Los Department of Water and Power. Built in 1965 The DWP headquarters was a palacial brightly lit-up building surrounded by fountains. It's indoor lights shined 24/7 through the glass exterior.
My brothers job was promoting energy conservation. (This was post 1973 oil embargo; conservation was the Big Thing). He was always having to explaining why the DWP headquarters building wasn't conserving energy. Well, it turns out that the building was engineered when electricity was cheaper. Not that they had to pay for it. Anyway, they couldn't just turn off the lights because the waste heat from the lighting was the heating system!
So, for many years, the headquarters building had the lights shining full blast. Built in 1965, it was mothballed around the early 1980's. It has recently been upgraded and retrofitted, so they can now turn the lights off.
For more fun, comparing that building with a new energy efficient skyscraper, see the following link, with some references to regulations that already limit incandescent bulbs in kitchens:
http://archrecord.construction.com/features/digital/archives/0612feature-1.asp
"A California lawmaker wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent as part of California's groundbreaking initiatives to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
"The "How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act" would ban incandescent by 2012 in favor of energy-saving compact fluorescent."
There's more, of course.
It's the kind of legislative deal that used to be decided in smoke filled rooms, but they can't do that anymore either.
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Funny side story. One of my brothers in the 1970's worked for the Los Department of Water and Power. Built in 1965 The DWP headquarters was a palacial brightly lit-up building surrounded by fountains. It's indoor lights shined 24/7 through the glass exterior.
My brothers job was promoting energy conservation. (This was post 1973 oil embargo; conservation was the Big Thing). He was always having to explaining why the DWP headquarters building wasn't conserving energy. Well, it turns out that the building was engineered when electricity was cheaper. Not that they had to pay for it. Anyway, they couldn't just turn off the lights because the waste heat from the lighting was the heating system!
So, for many years, the headquarters building had the lights shining full blast. Built in 1965, it was mothballed around the early 1980's. It has recently been upgraded and retrofitted, so they can now turn the lights off.
For more fun, comparing that building with a new energy efficient skyscraper, see the following link, with some references to regulations that already limit incandescent bulbs in kitchens:
http://archrecord.construction.com/features/digital/archives/0612feature-1.asp
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