{"id":160,"date":"2009-05-29T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2009-05-29T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:25:59","slug":"our-incandescent-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/our-incandescent-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Incandescent City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live for these told-ya-so moments&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A couple  of years ago our city council was mulling a ban on incandescent light bulbs, and mandating compact fluorescents. It was well-intentioned, given our current energy gluttony, but misguided in its application. I encouraged my friends on the council to avoid an ordinance that dictated a certain type of technology.  I warned them that new tech in lighting is always emerging, and thus they should not foreclose options for the future. I suggested that they instead, look to performance standards. In this case, that standard would have been lumens\/watt.<\/p>\n<p>They couldn&#8217;t hear. Anything. As usual.<\/p>\n<p>It was a time of compact fluorescent mania, twisty bulbs were all the rage, and city councillors wanted to be hip with the latest in-style tech&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot is, as I predicted at the time, other technologies are coming on line that may leave CFLs in the dust, energy efficiency-wise. Heck, <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/29\/can-incandescent-bulbs-be-made-efficient\/?hp\">even the old incan may exceed CFLs in overall performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I hear Nelson somewhere out there&#8230;yes&#8230;I do! &#8220;HAH-ha!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live for these told-ya-so moments&#8230;. A couple of years ago our city council was mulling a ban on incandescent light bulbs, and mandating compact fluorescents. It was well-intentioned, given our current energy gluttony, but misguided in its application. I encouraged my friends on the council to avoid an ordinance that dictated a certain type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,20,12,13,1],"tags":[77,71,72,73,78,74,75,79,80,81,76,82,83,84],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-business","category-energy-efficiency","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-madison-politics","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-compact-fluorescent-bulbs","tag-consumers","tag-efficiency","tag-energy-business","tag-energy-star","tag-general-business","tag-government-policy","tag-incandescent-bulbs","tag-leds","tag-light-bulbs","tag-lighting","tag-lumens","tag-lumens-per-watt","tag-madison-common-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}