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Where’s the front-page correction? WashPost Fails Math, Fails Ethics, Fails Readers

March 10th, 2012 · 3 Comments

The Washington Post‘s front page, 9 March 2012, featured an article entitled “Affordability award goes to $50 light bulb” (and the online title: Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag). Reading like a partisan hit job against the Department of Energy’s efforts to use ‘prizes’ to foster technological innovation into the market place, this […]

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Tags: electricity · Energy · incandescent lighting · LED · lighting · Post Watch · Washington Post

Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (Revisited)

October 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (Revisited)

Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or …) lights?  Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I once did, pausing on cold winter nights, white clouds issuing from my mouth, enjoying being in the glow […]

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Tags: electricity · energy efficiency · LED · lighting

Raleigh to abandon incandescents, leapfrog CFLs, and go all LED?

March 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments

According to the Department of Energy, just about 22% of US electrical use goes to lighting. And, satellite images showing so much of America lit up like an overloaded Christmas tree are just one indicator that much of this lighting is wasted.But, while much of the light itself is wasted, the way lighting is done […]

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Tags: CFL · cities · energy efficiency · incandescent lighting · LED · lighting