[PLUG-TALK] The Keith Effect - Lightbulb factories closing

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Oct 5 19:17:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Don J. wrote:

> Either way the watt savings is enormous.

   Just out of curiosity, how much additional energy is required to transport
the bulbs from Mexico or Hungary compared to Ohio?

   I'm not taking the side of either GE or the unions. There are hidden
energy costs in everything. In the early 1970s there was a guest speaker at
the U. of Illinois talking about the energy savings of coal gasification.
They were running a pilot project at GE in New York and he was enthused
about the results. Then someone in the audience asked how much energy it
took to gasify the coal, and what the _net_ energy was of the process. No
answer.

Rich

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