Bruce Wayne
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How drunk must one be to drink something called Moose Drool?
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
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LizzieMaine
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I really can't stand cutesy names for consumer products of any kind, but cutesy names for "craft beers" make my skin crawl. I'm not a drinker, but the names for the fancy beers are so irritating, on the rare occasions when do I have a beer I have a Narragansett just out of spite.
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HudsonHawk
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There used to be a beer out of California called "Alimony Ale". It was billed as "the most bitter beer in he world."
Gregg Axley
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I have to agree with you, at least somewhat.
The name thing we agree on.
I went down the beer isle at Kroger near me this morning, and saw all sorts of cutesy named beers.
Should you admit you drank a "Fluffy Bunny Wicked Orange Pale Ale?"
Somehow you might as well admit they were out of your favorite wine cooler.
countryclubjoe
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Drunk or sober, I think I'd choose Moose Drool over Santa's Butt Porter.
If I'm honest, I'm really not much of a beer drinker (or much of a drinker at all, for that matter) but I do like Killian's Irish Red.
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Retro Spectator
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While they didn't really disappear, the Incandescent light bulb is fading. Pun not intended.
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"Hey, let's force consumers to replace a perfectly good household product with one that contains mercury, so if someone breaks it they'll have to call in a HazMat team to clean it up before it kills them." That's "progress" for you. :frusty:
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Retro Spectator
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The new ones also give off a depressing cold hue. I honestly doubt that incandescent bulbs even used much more energy. I may be wrong, but isn't the source of power more important when it comes to the environment, than the usage of it?
HudsonHawk
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Fluorescent bulbs use about one 1/4th the energy of incandescent bulbs. An LED bulb uses about 1/10th. That's not really debatable.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with source vs. usage. Incandescent bulbs require more energy source. A lot more.
Retro Spectator
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When I said source, I was talking about the power plants. In many places, we still burn coal for power. I might be wrong, but if that coal power is transferred to a fluorescent bulb, the power plant would continue making pollution.
HudsonHawk
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But they'd be making 75% less pollution with fluorescent bulbs. 90% less with LED bulbs.
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Well, let's see:
1. CFLs cost ten times more than incandescent bulbs so they damned well better cost less to use but they are still dim.
2. Yes the damned things are dangerous as they have mercury vapor in them. :doh:
3. A 2012 study by Stony Brook University researchers found that most CFL bulbs have defects that allow UV radiation to leak at levels that could damage skin cells if a person is directly exposed at close range. The study’s lead researcher, materials science and engineering professor Miriam Rafailovich, told National Geographic News that she believes the defects occur during manufacturing or shipping. “This is something that could be remedied,” she said. In the meantime, she recommends that users shield the bulbs inside fixtures, stay one to two feet away from them, and avoid staring directly into the CFL bulb. Real safe between mercury vapor and UV radiation.:doh:
4. You can't use CFLs with dimmer switches. You lose any energy efficiency they might have with them.
5. If it is cold out, CFLs are dim or won't even light up at all. I had that problem with them when I used them for an outside walkway. Incandescent replaced them and work just fine. Good luck in colder winter areas than mine. That porch light will be useless. :doh:
HudsonHawk
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All of those things are true wit CFLs. But there is no denying that they use a lot less energy. LED lights use even less and suffer none of those problems, other than being expensive (though they last 50 times longer).
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I recommend these bulbs: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cree-60W...ght-Bulb-BA19-08027OMF-12DE26-2U100/204592770
Not only are they the closest thing to an incandescent bulb I have found but at roughly $5 a piece they seem like a bargain compared with most CFL's out there. I've replaced every bulb that I can in my house with these LED's and I've never had an issue with them.
Not only are they the closest thing to an incandescent bulb I have found but at roughly $5 a piece they seem like a bargain compared with most CFL's out there. I've replaced every bulb that I can in my house with these LED's and I've never had an issue with them.
Gregg Axley
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I agree on the bulb issue.
The curly cue bulbs put out a weird glow, I can't argue with you there.
Although I'm tempted to get the yellow ones for the front porch, which brings back memories of summer time for me. Bugs can't see them...or at least that was the old saying.
I haven't tried one but they can't be much worse than the original ones.
