Even lighting is getting its soul sucked out by the state.
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Where I live, we heat our houses about 8 months a year.
Thus, incandescent lightbulbs are not ''wasting'' energy 8 months a year because the ''wasted'' energy is heat. Which we need anyway.
Still a heat pump is more efficient and other fuels cheaper.
On the other hand an incandescent heats you radiantly so you feel warmer and can be comfortable in a colder house.
And incandescent has a continuous light and continuous spectrum and so looks better, and as a black body doesn't actually instantly turn on or off (a tiny fraction of a second, but it's less harsh). They just feel better.
You should always have a choice of incandescent. If they really want to influence people that see $0.25 incandescent vs $5 led initial price put a refundable deposit on the incandescent so when it burns out you get that money back.
Fuck that. The government shouldn't be influencing shit. If the product is better for people's needs, it'll win out.
People should be free to do what they want with the energy they buy.
It'd be great if we were in some fantasy land where Ron Paul is president and the best product wins, but in our world instead of something at least tolerable like a deposit they're banning incandescent entirely.
And all because a certain demo can't plan for more than a day out.
LED just ain't the same. You can (probably) technically reproduce the neon glow with the right color-balanced LEDs, but they don't.
The one good thing about Cyberpunk dystopias is the neon. Now we're just gonna get the dystopia part.