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20-Feb-07, 06:09 AM
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20-Feb-07, 06:26 AM
|  | #44-9aCustom#GR-094 Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: Out the Back of Queensland and a bit more Age: 99 | | | | Causes me know issues.
Fantastic idea.
Plenty of other alternatives to heating enclosures, some may cost more money but if it helps to reduce our impact on the green house gas emisions Im all for it.
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20-Feb-07, 07:09 AM
|  | Necker Cube Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: NSW | | | | I don't think it will cause us any issues. I think you'll find its only targeting mainstream household globes.
"Incandescent bulbs waste up to 95 per cent of the energy they use, mainly in the form of heat." thats what we want. I think they're here to stay |
20-Feb-07, 07:31 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Townsville Age: 37 | | | | And even so, I am quiet sure that they will never do away with the standard light globe. The new Globes would never be practical for things like festooning and that kind of lighting.
They are already replacing the standard light globe with the new fluorescent type in NSW along with water saving shower heads.
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20-Feb-07, 11:16 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: perth wa Age/Gender: 45  | | | | i use ceramic heat emitters with compact fluro globes |
20-Feb-07, 11:37 AM
|  | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | | Most energy in this country is produced from hydro, gas, wind etc... Many are renewable and non-polluting... But light bulbs aren't our major problem. Although changing every light bulb from incandescent to energy efficient is a saving... The biggest waster is new technology... not old technology.
New plasma and LCD screens use more electricity than the standard CRT (I was suprised by this stat). New computers are much gruntier in wattage than the older ones, Ceiling fans, Air Con, Fridges... all getting bigger, faster colder...
The list goes on - our energy crisis is but only beginning, and we're entering an era where what ever we use will begin to be available for rich people or new power plants... Nuclear Fission here we come! |
20-Feb-07, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by chloethepython  i use ceramic heat emitters with compact fluro globes | I use ceramic heat emitters too, and a long fluro  |
20-Feb-07, 12:28 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 20 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by slim6y Most energy in this country is produced from hydro, gas, wind etc... | Can i ask where u got that from? Very little comes from these sources. The aim for the goverment is to have 15% of our energy come from renewable sources by 2020 and this is by far not enough.
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20-Feb-07, 12:31 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Earth | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by slim6y Most energy in this country is produced from hydro, gas, wind etc... | ::cough::
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20-Feb-07, 12:39 PM
| | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | sorry peeps... I was just dreaming of my homeland.. 72% of NZ's energy is in fact hydro... wow, sorry...
I do apologise for my home sickness...
I am currently locating this countries resources to identify correctly the percentage of renewable vs fossil fuels etc... forgive me for my mistake...  |
20-Feb-07, 12:45 PM
| | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | OK - recent info I can find - although not thoroughly researched puts the following:
54.6% - Black Coal
29.3% - Brown Coal
10.7% - Renewables (Hydro, Wind etc)
5.1% - Gas
0.3% - Oil
source: http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/r...P08.htm#table1
But some 7 years old...  |
20-Feb-07, 01:00 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 20 | | | | Yea australias effort is poor to say the least.
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20-Feb-07, 01:29 PM
| | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | | Once again, grovelling for mercy - but I must say the reason for not signing the Kyoto Protocol wasn't one to back up USA but one to stay afloat with current generation.
I just talked to a teacher friend who suggested that everywhere from Sydney to the FNQ should have solar water heating installed (at usual costage of current electricity).
Wind and solar generators in the central areas (sorry, not sure of where the wind is, but there's loads of land for solar).
And one that I am going to add - when they build that wonderful river system from tulley to the dry arid interior of Qld and SA they should use some of that slope to generate electrcity too!
The latter did not involve much thinking process sorry! |
20-Feb-07, 01:33 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: May-05 Location: wide bay queensland | | | this is pretty good. it was not that long ago that john howard did not think that climate change was a problem.
is there an election soon????????????.
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20-Feb-07, 03:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Northern Subs, Adelaide Age/Gender: 21 | | | | Hope so, coz he ain't gettin my vote. | | |
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