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The Green Fad
Is it just me, or is anybody else becoming increasingly annoyed with the latest "green" movements. I wanted to post something because every now and then here, an old post will be revived- and I'm wondering by starting a post now, if I might be able to look back on it in 5 or 10 years and say, "Wow, the world was suposed to be destroyed by now."
I am working at a new camp facility that was built "green". On Weds, I will begin switching out 1200 light fixtures that currently use compact flourecents because these lights are too costly to replace. (at the expense of the Texas Tax Payers.)
Anybody have thoughts on this?
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Heres what I've got going on with the lights: 1200 light on the property that are of the CFL type. The camp was built 2 years ago. Light are supposed to last 6 years and save $40 worth of power durring those six years. 1000 lights already burned out and replaced, another 100 lights burned out and can not afford to be replaced. The cost? $52.50 to get a burned out light bulb back on! The cost of switching it over to incadescent? $3.75. So thats what I'm doing.
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last post should have read: 100 lights already burned out, instead of 1000
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For me, it's not "You get what you pay for. At $52.50 a light, I should be buying myself the best f****** light bulb on the planet. When it's less expensive to change the fixture rather than changing te bulb, that's a problem.
This is simply not the sacrafice that I am prepared to make for "Mother Earth".
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The light bulb price is the best in town (Dallas) and we are getting everything at 10% discount. The ballast price is also the best (because it's the only) price in town, but it's coming from L.A.
The total price includes $12.50 for the lamp, and $40.00 for the ballast. It's all or nothing because one doesnt work with out the other. The fixture is most likely to blame in causing the an overheat situation, however the engineers insist the fixture is good, the ballast folks say the design is wrong, the lightbulb folks want me to try another brand which is couple buck more expensive. While everybody argues about what is going on, my costomers dont have lights.
I know these things are under warranty, but honestly I would need to hire a full time guy just to keep track of light bulb paperwork if I took that route.
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