Posts by Gareth Ward
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TVNZ to provide regional advertising on TV ONE from 1st July.
On Sky? How can they do that? One satellite transmission, no?
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Is Freeview getting Prime?
Oh please, and make it proper HD to go with it.
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Ah yep, thanks.
Dimmable is a good sign. Given that the UK, Australia and China are actually of a base enough intelligence to have set energy standards for these things the types and range will only improve -
Keith - links no work (and I'd be quite keen to see them!)
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Hear hear. Can anyone here tell me where I ought to be responsibly chucking the bloody things in Chch?
Company called Interwaste offers a recycling service - you pay $12 for a courier box that will hold 12 bulbs. Once you've filled it you seal it and drop it at the Post Office. They then properly recycle them.
https://www.zeus-sport.com/Interwaste/Shop/Product.aspx?ID=19&InterfaceID=574 -
Um, I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here, but there wasn't a ban.
There was a minimum energy performance standard (MEPS). Important difference.Good point George, it is a VERY important difference and I, for one, shouldn't have used the "ban" term.
I think the dimmer thing is still an issue, and wonder if there are CFLs on the way that can be dimmed? Or is it an unavoidable part of their design?
Given my chandelier is made of burnt and blackened wood the Mr Sparkerel argument doesn't really sway me (although I'm yet to find a candle-shaped CFL to fit) -
Gyro Gearloose attempts a laboured metaphor.
Haha, loved that guy.
Well done Helen - yet again NZ punching above it's weight on the international stage. -
__ Garth George claimed in his Herald column to have been making plans to stockpile the old bulbs.__
I like to imagine that pile is in the same basement as his stockpile of BZP.
Let's follow the logic:
- Garth claims BZP is a gateway drug to P
- Garth is stockpiling lightbulbs
- You can't smoke P in a squiggly bulb
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Don't be silly Gareth, of course the link said that, otherwise the authors' funding would dry up...
No, no, I don't think Steve is a classic denialiserer (it's more fun when you add syllables). He's raising some valid queries for non-climate-scientists like us, but having looked into the same issue it has been pretty well covered and found to pose no problem for the AGW theory.
Although that line is unfortunately still rather common huh...
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How much is an incandescent bulb? CFL's are $2 a pop when subsidised.
But I guess an over-reliance on initial cost is a pretty classic market failure that warrants Govt intervention - i.e. ban. If you ain't going to be rational economic utility maximisers then Nanny will be all up in there!