This Can’t Go On

Re:This Can’t Go On by cratermoon on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:50PM (#28056367)

What about the energy use in making LED bulbs vs incandescent?

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Re:This Can’t Go On by gspr on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:55AM (#28057669)

Are you actually asking, or just attempting to muddy the waters?

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Re:This Can’t Go On by cratermoon on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:12AM (#28057760)

IS GP actually saying making LED bulbs is overall lower entropy than making incandescent, or is he throwing shade?

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Re:This Can’t Go On by neltnerb on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:52AM (#28058024)

I mean, the answer is that the LED bulbs have a lower environmental impact than CFLs or Incandescents.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/study-environmental-ben...

I think this is easy enough to find though... maybe they just don't know how to find this stuff.

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Re:This Can’t Go On by cratermoon on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:06PM (#28067046)

LED bulbs are a relatively recent invention, thus their manufacture, at industrial scales, was built on developments in manufacturing engineering that didn't exist when the incandescent bulb was developed. So here's a question for you: if we went back and re-tooled incandescent assembly lines for modern processes, would LEDs still beat them?

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