We Don't Need No Stinking Twisty Bulbs

And I am freaking going blind because my lights at home are too dim.

Eye doctors will be making a fortune.

See, we are going back to the Dark Ages, just like the Luddites want.

Speigel is spelled Spiegel. It means 'mirror' as in 'Daily Mirror' in Britain.

Do any of you know if they've started selling the normal bulbs again? If yes, where (in Canada).

I will continue to send dead and broken bulbs to Dr. Fruit Fly.

The people who are active in the current environmental movement probably look at dystopian works like George Orwell's '1984' and the 1973 movie 'Soylent Green' as being desirable places to live.

This is interesting,

Just yesterday, while running water as I usually do before drinking it, it occurred to me that those that calling for water conservation are not thinking about unintended consequences.

The longer water remains in a reservoir and in the pipeline without moving, there is more chance for variety of living things that grow in stationary water, to grow.

It would seem that once the water leaves the water treatment plant, it shoud be consumed relatively soon in order to keep it fresh.

Barlow lady is wrong as most socialists/fascists with their bombastic ideas to control anything that is the earth environment.

There is a lady in the hiking club in Calgary that objects to anyone that picks a rock and throws it. Not making a joke here. Sometimes do exactly that to see the reactionary action.

It is obvious that many people have so much empty life, they pick on the smallest, no important things. Perhaps it is to be noticed, maybe it is to irritate for lack of more fulfilling activity, it boggles ones mind.

There is a letter to the editor in today's Calgary Herald that complains about brown houses, not thinking that the color of his house is insulting to others.

Sheesh

@FAVILL

I know the co-op in airdrie sells em ...but the y do tend to sell out quite quickly , i personally try to by a few packs of each wattage each time i go i almost have a five year supply of each now!!

other than that i have ni ideer where they are sold...hey here's a joke for the northeaster namerican friends

what do you call a deer that has no eye's?

NO IDEER

what do you call a deer that has no leg's and no eye's ?

STILL NO IDEER!

what do you call a deer with no eye's leg's or balls...

STILL NO F#$KING IDEER!!

ha hahaha lol.!1 have a great day everyone !!

The hell with "the environment" if you want to keep your legilating green ass in one peace, stay out of the wife's kitchen.

mmmmm, environMENTALists? perhaps this explains it;

["Inhaled mercury enters the brain through the bloodstream," says Gary Zörner of the Laboratory for Chemical Analysis in Delmenhorst in northern Germany. "And every bit of mercury makes us a little more stupid. It can lead to total derangement."] Spiegel

The Aryan Master Race ??

We in Sask are always behind the times.All other countries are going broke using wind and solar power but in Sask we will avoid this by doubling our wind power output.

favill
Superstores in Calgary sell 'em by the case or by the six pack. Any size.

Thanks to all for your responses. I think it's time to move back to AB (after 14 yrs away). Ontario is politically-speaking BC without the view.

of course, the fact that many europeans are facing economic hardships as a result of the LAST Rio summit doesn't get the mention...

The European Parliament has cancelled plans to send a delegation to the UN's Rio+20 summit on sustainable development taking place in June, saying the costs are too prohibitive.

The Parliament had planned to send 11 MEPs. But yesterday the political group co-ordinators on the environment committee decided that hotel costs, of up to €800 a night, were too exorbitant. A delegation from the European Commission will attend, led by Janez Potocnik, the European commissioner for the environment.

“The huge increase in the estimated cost of attending the summit is simply not justifiable, especially at a time when many Europeans are faced with economic hardship,” said Matthias Groote, the chairman of the environment committee.

ref:
...Just yesterday, while running water as I usually do before drinking it, it occurred to me that those that calling for water conservation are not thinking about unintended consequences...

Posted by: Lev at May 10, 2012 11:23 AM

I live in an area that certainly has no shortage of water, the main problem here is keeping it out of our basements, yet there are 'information sessions' hosted by 'environmentally aware' groups and even pamphlets sent out by the same town that foots the flood bills, to tell me how to 'save' water, with both coming from my property taxes.

I enjoy these meetings, I particularly enjoy seeing the expressions on the faces of the 'facilitators' when they make their statements that people in many areas of the world don't have enough water and I stand up and ask "so...you're saying that if I don't let the tap run until it's cold enough to drink, the water I don't use shows up there ?" or when they push conservation someone else asks "what happens to the water that we don't use then, when it backs up in the reservoir and spills out ? does it migrate somewhere else where it's needed, or just follow the river down to the sea like it would have if we hadn't run it through the treatment plant first ?"

Too many of today's well-meaning but completely misinformed youth have confused education with intelligence and can't see that not every solution or description applies to every situation and that what is a problem in one area in a completely different problem in another...they're the ones that would sign the petitions banning "dihydrogen monoxide" while speaking out against a 'water shortage' during a flood..and have signed them ;)

That one's been around for 40 years, Penn and Teller even had a field day with it on TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

and the 'environmental saviours' STILL haven't clued in...time to run off another petition sheet fro the next meeting....

Yeah here in Ontariario it is the season of our new provincial flower....the damned dandelion....

IMNSHO lawns should be green...not yellow......

Oh wait....the enviro-nazis don't like lawns of any colour.....

Gum-dab-it, we're determined to save the planet even if it means we'll kill every human being on the earth!!! Just call it, minor collatoral damage.

ref:

Gum-dab-it, we're determined to save the planet even if it means we'll kill every human being on the earth!!! Just call it, minor collatoral damage.
Posted by: robw at May 10, 2012 2:39 PM

You have no idea how close that is to what a great many of these lunatics ARE saying...I just wish they'd start at home first instead of trying to starve or freeze everyone who doesn't agree with them...let them show us their dedication before demanding mine ;)

All sewage systems leak. They are designed with pipe diameters that will keep them flushed and prevent water and waste sitting around building up bacteria, solids, and possible gas. Then came the plumbers friend, the low flush toilets. If people didn't multiple flush them they'd get blockage between their line and the next municipal sewer pipe. Then they'd have to call a plumbing service, heh.
It was reported that a small town in Germany lost enough population that they had to dig up the sewers system and replace the pipes with smaller ones. Not enough people flushing to prevent build up and blockage.

Low-Flow Toilets Cause a Stink

Less water per flush means less water pushing sludge through sewers. California has spent $14 million recently on bleach to disinfect the sludge buildup, on top of $100 million in previous attempts, that will eventually flow into the San Francisco bay. That doesn’t sound very environmentally friendly.

The claimed yearly benefit of low-flow toilets in San Francisco is to save 20 million gallons of water with a value of $131,000.

Conservation is a religion, not a scientific policy. Only a market of thousands of individuals can figure out what can be recycled at net benefit to society.

The idiots in San Francisco could avoid all these pipe blockage and flow issues by temporarily boosting flow through the sewage lines on a regular basis. Pick a night and flush extra water through the sewer. Repeat as necessary. If they wanted to, they do not even need potable water. It still would be cheaper than what they are doing now.

Of course, then they would need to admit that low flush toilets are a failure.

Like so much of environmentalism is a failure of unintended consequences.

Stinking twisty bulbs? Like we did last summer?

SaskPower apparently is pushing a new save the planet idea. Turn in your incandescant bulbs and exchange for the new fangled low energy twisty flourescents. (Can't give details as the glossy pamphlet somehow ended up in my used oil/scrap tire elimination program').

Yeah, brilliant! Take a functioning product that has expended resources to produce and is still operational, scrap it with still useable output remaining, pay for the high-priced (salaried, no doubt?) clowns to do the exchange, destroy unexpired resource (old bulbs). Spend another 200k reminding us of their environmental consciousness and pro-activism while they save us from ourseves.

These same dolts are going full-bore on wind-farm expansion, all the while when we're sitting on vast coal, oil, natural gas reserves, more potential hydro development, and the world's greatest uranium deposits!! (Won't even get in to the CO2 sequestration scam, for now).
Clearly, there has been no purging in the bureaucratic hierography yet, after years of NDP subversion.
C'mon Brad, you'd better do it now when you're riding the wave and have some capital!
Or are you about to fold in the face of adversity, like all the rest?

I have always taken this "water coservation" stuff with a grain of salt.

If they're talking about just potable water they might have a point. But just "water?" Why?

Think back to your high school science class. I seem to remember being taught something about the three states of water and how water cycles through the environment.

The water in open bodies (such as the ocean) evaporates into the atmosphere and falls as rain back to earth where it is used by plant life and animals (and humans) and is cycled back into the earth and through the earth into streams and rivers which flow to the sea and the whole thing starts over.

This is a over simplification but basically that's what happens to water.

That includes the water we flush down the toilet and use to wash our cars. (Washing cars is good)

Unless you have an antimatter incinerator down your toilet, the water you use is treated and put back in streams and rivers that flow back to the ocean so the cycle can continue.

The earth is pretty much a closed system as far as water goes. It is not flying off into space to be burnt up by the sun. There is probably as much water on the earth as there has ever been.

So if we're "conserving" water, what are we conserving it from?

snagglepuss, well said.

The earth is pretty much a closed system as far as water goes. It is not flying off into space to be burnt up by the sun. There is probably as much water on the earth as there has ever been.
More In fact. It comes in from space on small comets. Most of our water came from space on comets.

"Green" has nothing to do with saving the environment. To be considered "green" requires no rational or scientific basis. No studies or consideration of consequences are wanted or desired.

The only thing that matters, as the article points out, is how buying a certain lightbulb, car, or whatever makes ME feel and, more importantly, that I look good doing it.