EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides

Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:32PM (#16945479)

> not to mention their terrible power factor almost negated any efficiency improvements.

A power factor is not what you think it is (has zero to do with efficiency).

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by exabrial on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:56PM (#16952791)

In fact, it does. A lot of transmission energy is wasted as heat when powering devices with a terrible power factor. Replacing a 60w incandescent with a 15w device that has a .5 power factor isn't netting the environmental savings advertised.

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by apcragg on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:01AM (#16946000)

I'm similarly skeptical that replacing 70 watt bulbs with 15 watt bulbs with poor power factors would end up being a wash. IR loses from the increase in reactive current would not cover the 55 watt gap.

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:38AM (#16946227)

There isn't even any reactive current, it's just a non-sinusoidal load current because there is a rectifier and capacitors for smoothing the rectified voltage at the input.

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by petre on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:21AM (#16946051)

We moved from halogen directly to LED bulbs. Never liked CFLs mainly because of the mercury. I guess it's up to you to decide and educate others.

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