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Them bulbs, them bulbs, them dryyy bulbs, doooooo the work of the
Lawd,,,,

And there was Light.
What will Ford Motor Company (Ford has a better Idea, CLICK!) do if
Incandescent Light Bulbs are outlawed in America?
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On Jun 11, 1:37*am, "Brenda Ann"
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"Bill Baka" wrote in message

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On 06/10/2010 08:44 AM, wrote:
Them bulbs, them bulbs, them dryyy bulbs, doooooo the work of the
Lawd,,,,


And there was Light.
What will Ford Motor Company (Ford has a better Idea, CLICK!) do if
Incandescent Light Bulbs are outlawed in America?
cuhulin


I think they are already on the government's hit list.
Sodium vapor lights? Turn on and wait for ignition???
LED's will probably be packed into a headlight assembly.
I have a 5 year old Cat Eye LED bicycle light that is fair to middling in
the light output category. Newer LED's are brighter but require some
serious heat sinking, something that is do'able in a car for mass
production.
I think they would be more reliable too since I have had one filament
break while the lights were on and I hit a big bump. The filaments are
fairly robust when cold, but very weak when heated to make light.
All 4 now,
Bill Baka


Our PX has some fancy Samsung LED floods in the parking lot. 75% cheaper to
run than the metal halide lamps they replace, and even a bit more light.- Hide quoted text -

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So long as they're aimed downward and don't illuminate the night sky
with wasted energy, I am all for them! ;-)

Metal Halide lamps, especially unshielded, are the pits. Brilliant,
sky-obscuring, and hard to overcome with normal amateur filter
equipment.

Bruce the Amateur Astronomer


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On Jun 11, 6:42*am, dave wrote:
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Them bulbs, them bulbs, them dryyy bulbs, doooooo the work of the
Lawd,,,,


And there was Light.
What will Ford Motor Company (Ford has a better Idea, CLICK!) do if
Incandescent Light Bulbs are outlawed in America?
cuhulin


Incandescent panel lamps will still be allowed for a while at least
won't they?


*Something* with a dimmer switch. Runs on a battery anyway...
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LED traffic lights and LED sidewalk lights don't put out any heat to
melt the ice and snow in the Wintertime.There were problems with that
last Winter, especially with traffic lights.Sooooo, if they have to wind
up rigging up some way to keep the ice and snow from obscuring those LED
lights, where is the energy savings? Last Winter, in some parts of
America, they had trucks going around and spraying deicing
fluid/whatever kind of fluid on some LED traffic lights.Not much savings
(Money) there either.
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On Jun 11, 8:29*am, wrote:
LED traffic lights and LED sidewalk lights don't put out any heat to
melt the ice and snow in the Wintertime.There were problems with that
last Winter, especially with traffic lights.Sooooo, if they have to wind
up rigging up some way to keep the ice and snow from obscuring those LED
lights, where is the energy savings? Last Winter, in some parts of
America, they had trucks going around and spraying deicing
fluid/whatever kind of fluid on some LED traffic lights.Not much savings
(Money) there either.
cuhulin


I cannot speak to traffic lights, because they are necessarily aimed
sideways into weather from *some* direction - but for general
illumination, all you need is a housing that keeps the snow and ice
off them. Not that hard to construct, and would serve the double
purpose of eliminating light trespass and light pollution.

Bruce
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Durn Tootin! Drill em Full of Lead! ~ George ''Gabby'' Hayes.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...?ArtNum=290913

And the way B.O.Plenty used to spit in those old Dick Tracy comic books
I used to read back in the 1940s.

I got an email yesterday from that married Irish woman wayyyyyyyyyy over
yonder across the big pond.She said she hasen't heard didly squat from
me in quite a while.
I reckon I better email her.

http://ingeb.org/songs/othentel.html
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Two Helicopters have crashed in Montgomery County,Arkansas.Governor Mike
Beebe said a temporary morg has been set up.About 300 people at a
campground there.
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