Save the Filament!
A ‘friend’ rang yesterday suggesting that I go to my local library and steal their copy of the Daily Mail, where I would find something to my advantage.
What larks, eh, Pip!
It appears that we, as loyal subjects of the Crown, are being ‘robbed of our right’ to buy traditional light bulbs! Presumably, these are lamps hand-hewn by Joseph Swan in his garden shed in Newcastle. But no, it turned out to be a garment-rending piece about the loss of the faithful 100W GLS lamp. You know, the lamp that no one buys anyway. But when the alternative is a CFL lamp – spawn of the devil and Gordon Brown – then we’re urged to mount the barricades to Save the Filament.
Being a sociable kind of chap - except on market days and during the summer holidays - and someone who supports his local library, especially since the collapse of the global capitalist system, I chose to download the on-line version. That version comes free with’ informed’ comments from the great proletariat and - oh dear me – what has the industry been doing these past few years?
Given the stuff that passes for ‘general knowledge’ (this witty riposte isn’t original ‘cos I nicked it from The Guardian – but I don’t need to read other people’s uninformed opinions; I’ve got plenty of my own) it occurs to me that the lighting industry has been passing its time enjoying its own company a bit too much, without actually looking outside of its richly- feathered nest.
If the lamp industry is happy to take hand-outs from governments to subsidise the cost of CFL lamps, then at least it could get off its collective upholstered backside to get out some real factual information, deal with the health claims, counter the black-propaganda that’s being put about - oh, and do something REAL about the truly horrendous vision of the land being awash in toxic materials caused by the lazy disposal of these lamps.
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