Re: Jeremy Vine stopped from cycling

On 2009-09-03, Mike Clark <mrc7-urc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
Whilst accepting that there are considerations that moderate the
magnitude of the difference I don't see anything in that list that
offers a compelling argument in favour of retaining less efficient
incandescent lighting. Certainly many of the so called health issues are
either ones that are poorly documented and somewhat controversial or are
in themselves of a limited impact. Indeed many of the issues seem
themselves to be of a largely "theoretical" or even I would suggest
"hypothetical" nature. For example the UV hazard from a flourescent bult
is only a very very small fraction of the UV hazard from exposure to
sunlight. Spend one extra minute a day out doors for every few hours of
exposure in doors to get the same UV exposure.

Also with regard to the chemical hazards such as are involved in the
PCBs and wiring. In the average home there are numerous electronic
devices such as phones, chargers, televisions, computers, games
consoles, cameras, toasters, food processors etc etc. So what proportion
of that is contributed by low energy lights.


As mentioned before I've already made the transition myself from
incandescent to a mixture of flourescent and LED lighting solutions and
I don't have personal experience of the problems that are listed.

Indeed the LED lights I now have for my bicycle are many times better
than the incandescent lights I used to use. Similarly for camping,
walking and caving.

LED is hugely better obviously for portable lights, but I can't see any
compelling reasons not to use incandescent lights at home where electric
power is cheap and plentiful-- besides lights are mostly on in the
winter and you've got to heat your house anyway.

If there were compelling reasons they wouldn't have banned them-- people
would have just all switched to CFLs anyway.
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