Tony Blair announced this week that we should all switch over to energy light bulbs and the normal light bulbs should be banned in two years time. That's fine but you can't use flourescent energy light bulbs with dimmer swithes so is there another type or will we all have to buy new dimmer switches?
2007-03-10 07:34:12 · 8 answers · asked by magic-man 1 in Environment
No. Recently a few high efficiency bulbs have become available which can be used with old fashioned dimmer switches. They are a little more expensive I believe. See references below.
2007-03-10 08:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by Mambo 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In California, where blackouts from too many people using too much energy is a real problem, I can see the banning of less efficient light sources becoming a reality. The newer lightbulbs use 25% less energy than incandescents. Solar power is very expensive to install and not everyone lives in an area where the sun is readily available at all times of the year. Wind sources are becoming more and more popular, however they are being blocked in some areas - where their use would be phenomonal - by military whose radars pick up the propellors as aircraft. Living in a free society does not mean you get to live in it free of responsibility. We have laws against rape, murder, assault and theft because people can not be entirely trusted to self regulate. Likewise, we have laws regulating corporations and the products they make, because organizations of people, like individual people themselves, can not be entirely trusted to self-regulate. As for why cigarettes are still legal.. that's easy. Two reasons. One, we've tride outlawing a harmful and popular drug before - alcohol - and that only made violent crime go through the roof. Two, cigarettes have paid off more politicians to keep it legal.
2016-03-28 23:16:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are now new dimable energy saving bulbs.... at 3 times the price of standard ones
2007-03-10 13:17:50 · answer #3 · answered by skipper409 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mambo is correct.
But what is UK coming to? More and more rules, more and more laws, more and more constraints, obligations, interdictions, frustrations.
UK was the country of FREEDOM twenty years ago.
Now life is free-er under any dictator anywhere!
What are the Britons thinking? Doing? Becoming????
A bunch of sheep going to the slaughter with a condescendant smile on their faces? Where is your past PRIDE?
WAKE UP BRITONS!!!
Next year, you will be taxed to have a pee...
Gosh I am happy I left, never to return...
Do the same!
You can report me for abuse: you will only show what you have become.
2007-03-10 08:22:37 · answer #4 · answered by just "JR" 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Artists need 'daylight bulbs' and there are many other special types of bulbs people need
Tony, just f**k off, were tired of this
2007-03-10 07:42:33 · answer #5 · answered by Northern Spriggan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of any; best to replace the dimmer switches now.
2007-03-10 07:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another reason I am proud to be an American.....President Bush can't tell me what kind of light bulbs to buy......lol
2007-03-10 07:39:31 · answer #7 · answered by justmedrt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haven't heard that one... but we'll see. I'm gunna ask my husband he should know some thing about it cuz he is an electrician and wires new houses
2007-03-10 07:37:26 · answer #8 · answered by Robyn T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋