Atlanta Speaking of CFLs, incandescent bulbs, and LEDs, President Obama was in North Carolina visiting Cree, Inc., a large LED manufacturer, yesterday. He was talking about jobs, which is a good thing, though mainly about engineering and high tech jobs, which is also a good thing, but is not going to deal with almost 10% …
Month: June 2011
Mercury and CFL’s
New Orleans There are real issues around light bulbs, especially around mercury, but let’s separate all of the hype about stockpiling bulbs, deciding on what kind of “light we like,” and find some solid ground before screwing our minds up as we screw a bulb out. Incandescent bulbs are the old school, back-to-Edison favorites we …
A Rating System for Public Scandals?
New Orleans Reading this “opinion” piece in the Pilot, which must be a small but feisty newspaper in the descriptively named town of Southern Pines, population a shade over 10,000 folks in North Carolina pushing towards the South Carolina border, I couldn’t resist passing this pearl on. I’ll be darned if I don’t really believe …