{"id":1050,"date":"2007-01-12T23:20:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:34:44","slug":"1046-of-fluorescence-verses-incandescence-bulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"[1046] Of fluorescent versus incandescent bulb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT has an article on why some people are having a hard time switching from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/07\/weekinreview\/07hamilton.html?ref=environment\" target=\"_blank\">incandescent to fluorescent bulb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In trying to replace \u2014 depose \u2014 incandescent light bulb light, you&#8217;re asking people to disengage from a gravitation as primal as the attraction to the sun\u2019s light or fire, which are incandescent. Like the bulb and its filament, they make light from heat, to create a glowing focal source, or a &#8220;flame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fluorescent bulbs activate a gas inside a tube, lighting a fluorescent coating that glows and creates an even, diffuse light without a center. Born in a lab, they don&#8217;t have much traction on the human experience since the dawn \u2014 incandescent \u2014 of man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It could be that America splits along cultural lines in the debate. In Asia, people are more comfortable with fluorescent light, said Mr. Gordon, the designer, who has clients there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asians have developed an architecture that makes use of diffused light sources,&#8221; he explained. Rice-paper windows and room-dividing walls in Japanese houses, for example, spread light evenly, with few shadows, unlike incandescent light, which has a source point, like the flame of a candle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever it is, buy fluorescent bulb instead of incandescent. It saves energy and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT has an article on why some people are having a hard time switching from incandescent to fluorescent bulb: In trying to replace \u2014 depose \u2014 incandescent light bulb light, you&#8217;re asking people to disengage from a gravitation as primal as the attraction to the sun\u2019s light or fire, which are incandescent. Like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[417,1074,1073],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science","tag-energy","tag-fluorescent-bulb","tag-incandescent-bulb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6056,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}