Tungsten lights SHOULD be banned - not because they are particularly egregious but because sometimes decommissioning the use of something is the ‘nudge’ people reluctant to change need to move to something that’s beneficial to everyone. LEDs are far cheaper, more efficient, don’t generate the level of heat that can sometimes cook performers onstage, are way more reliable and durable. I don’t know why certain industries continue to pour their own money into a sinkhole and make anachronistic excuses for it. That sortve nonsense is precisely why alcoholics in denial require an intervention.
@@ThiccAssRaccoonHey, careful there. The definition of "speciality" might be so broad that it makes the ban itself irrelevant. SUVs are allowed to get horrendous gas mileage because they're exempted from fuel consumption requirements for being work vehicles. An exception big enough to drive an SUV through.
Paper straws...last time I got a sandwich at a Subway, it came with a drink and that came in a cup made of 21g of plastic (yes I actually did dry and weigh it later on a lab scale) and a lid that was 2g of plastic, but I was given a paper straw (where plastic would have been about 1g) that disintegrated before I finished the drink. Pointless.
Its about wasting everyone's time by hyper-focusing on a single, minor element of pollution for the longest time possible to deflect attention form the giant industries overseas doing most of it. Never forget that the "carbon footprint" was invented by an oil giant.
@@SocksAndPuppets that's handy if one carries a bag. But the common size of straw used by most adults is far too big to be kept in anything else, such as a pocket. Everything I carry on me daily fits in the pockets of my jacket. But I would never fit one of those straws in there. So if you don't already carry a bag everywhere, you've nowhere to put it. It's such a silly attempt to force an unneccesary change when, as shown above, the actual effect is negligible and all it really does is give a lesser product that often fails to achieve its purpose while the actual problem areas remain unaddressed. Paper lids would save even more plastic and don't have to make contact with the liquid anywhere near as much. But those are all still plastic. Just another way to guilt the public into feeling bad we're not doing enough to save the planet while the companies actually doing 90% of the damage avoid making the changes that would actually make a difference.
I used to be a production manager for a live theater company. The company was almost dissolved because someone who was borrowing our theater left all our stage lights on for about 2 weeks. Basically every other light and socket had to be replaced for safety issues (i.e. the wiring got overheated and got melted in spots). Thankfully we were able to just remove 3 of our 6 fly bars for lighting and replace them with new LEDs to get enough lighting to run shows, but the next few productions were run on incredibly tight margins.
Why in christ do bulbs that can set themselves on fire not have autodimming/shutoffs?? If anything, this further drives home that they should be banned.
@@jimbob5891 Honestly I can't say it wasn't instillation problems with 100% certainty, but I do remember that those bulbs were over 1000watt and ran around 300F under standard load. Our investigation found that the bulbs themselves were rated to avoid the kind of prolonged use they got (i.e. needed a cool down period at periodic intervals), and the ventilation might have not been sufficient. Although it was a bit on us for not having a mandatory cool period.
As someone who has worked in pulp and paper industry, paper straws are super unhealthy. Some really nasty chemicals used to make pulp. When they wash it, they definitely do not remove all the black liquor or bleach.
Also, the disintegration of the paper straw... you say eco-friendly, I say wasteful. When you need a second straw to withstand the extended soaking in the drink, i might as well get the plastic… the best is still the lids with a lip for consumption if you want eco-friendly. It's 2 in 1. it might be plastic, but that's one item that's plastic...
@@coffeecoder8162 I think it have a lot to do whit the mugs been so crap and in the US so large that if you tried to drink from then like a regular glass you ether snap your vrist or you spill all over you because the mug just buckled in on it self. can´t test it here in Sweden because swedes biggest Soda cup size (MacDonald or any other) is the child size in the US. Might be some flubber from the US that shows up to some food festival and brings US cups whit them to sell... but I doubt that.
@@Zack_Wester I've all sorts of cups.from places and now I just bring my own mug wherever I go. As long as I pay for the drink no one seems to care that I have my own mug.
@@coffeecoder8162 I know the swedish Pressbyrån convenience stores (kiosks liki shops mostly at/near buss/train stations). sells coffee/drinks and they offers a permanent discount if you bring your own mug. (also love the suggestion picture they have for suggestion for what a cup is... creativity). found it. via.tt.se/data/images/00204/b682c269-1774-415a-982a-8da07bba0b67-w_960.png
There's been bans on tungsten bulbs in many countries... they're not saying you have to throw out your existing stock, just stopping new sales, why would you assume they're going to tell people to stop using their existing bulbs? how would they even enforce that? Home inspections?
It's so stupid in the first place. Electricity is pretty expensive, so everyone is switching to LEDs on their own. Only those who can't easily make the switch haven't done it yet. The market practically solved it by itself.
@@devalue7064 The evolution of LED lights is actually text book example of forced government policy. The ban of incandescent lights came first in the EU and lightning industry was told to invest LED lights.
As someone who previously worked in high performance LED lighting, it's nice seeing the advancements acknowledged. LED's have come crazy far crazy fast, nowadays chipsets that produce just an insane amount of light with a respectable CRI are not that expensive. The toughest part of using LEDs is really cooling them, that's the big bottleneck when you are pushing hundreds of watts through them since no one really wants active cooling.
It has gotten to the point that I can instantly spot LEDs in outdoor floodlight applications. The big molded heatsink on the back of a flat package gives it away.
Yeah and that lack of cooling, pushing the LEDs to their limits, is starting to generate more waste ( I have cases of dead LED bulbs now, I think in some cases the CFLs and possible tungstens have technically lived longer than some of these newer bulbs ) . CFLs went into that same cycle of cost cutting.
@@NightWolfx03 Those god damn boob lights are the worst offenders. Those closed, glass, boob loghts everyone puts in hallways and on ceilings because they are the cheapest light fixture? They ROAST LED bulbs.
@@NightWolfx03 Yes, the old ones lasted much longer. All the first LEDs installed in my house (around 2012) still work, but the newer ones have been failing constantly. I understand the newer ones are more efficient and have better CRI, but the older ones lasted longer and were just made better.
My only gripe with LED lights for your house is that the majority of "cheap" LEDs you find at the big box stores are often daylight color temperature, have a 60 Hz flicker, and have an obnoxious level of coil whine to compete with some graphics cards. I'm all for good LED lighting, but please, don't give me manufactured E waste. Give me cheap but good and an incandescent color temperature. Phillips LED bulbs are great. They also cost an arm and a leg. I think I have one of their bulbs that's going on ten years old now though, so there is that.
@@delta250a ✨just American things✨ I guess. Unless there's better bulbs out there than the home Depot junk pile and I just don't know about them. That'd be great
@@jamesphillips2285 the Philips WiZ ones are pretty okay actually, they even just run ESP32s internally - though I've found a flaw in the driver board of the 60w tunable white model that causes a capacitor to fail early (although it is repairable!), the other Philips WiZ models aren't bad at all & can even be locally controlled with Home Assistant.
I’ve noticed the “decorative” ones that have the led stick thing in the clear glass are usually pretty good, they’re more expensive than the garbage ones, though they are cheaper than smart bulbs.
The LED lights are significantly more expensive, but if you take how often the tungsten bulbs need to be replaced, and the labor needed to change the bulbs, not to mention the power savings, the gap narrows significantly.
I had not one LED fail, ever. And even if they all fail right NOW, they already paid for themselves in electricity. Also I use a mix of the cheapest LEDs that are actually good.
@@David-ty6my I started buying cheapo ones after having $10 bulbs fail. My house is also all LEDs now, but I’m just saying I have not had great experiences with them at the time we switched over. CFL and filaments were reliable for me.
I've only had one led light fail (sort of), that I bought 5 years ago, and was probably fixable as it was just flickering every now and then but I replaced it instead of trying that.
that is strange, check your power lines, you may have noise that is killing them, other thing is heat, they don't like it and most cheap leds usually have low heat transfer capabilities... Funny part of leds in my house the most expensive one is the worst, it was a ip54 for the bathroom and at my house it flickers, complaint to the store, they had it working there for 15 minutes and all good, replaced it nevertheless and the new one does the same... Just decided to live with it and replace it when it fully fails... Even replaced the switch to make sure was not from it...
The plastic bag ban here in Washington has worked out really well. It's not really a ban, we just implemented regulations that require a fee for plastic bags, and those bags are now more reusable. Most people now bring their own bags or just do without bags, so the result was actually a significant decrease in waste.
Yup same in germany i cant even remember anymore when we "banned" plastic bags. In rare situations i have to buy a bag. I just hate those paper ones since they are just crap when it rains...
Did the same in the UK, banned single use plastic and started charging for any bag that is supplied by the store. So everyone very quickly got into the habit of having a bag with them when they went shopping, I'm still using some cloth bags that I got over five years ago.
Something similar happened where I live. They just forced all stores to put price on "single-use" plastic bags and banned some, that are especially bad. It was received badly at the time, but people adapted and waste did actually reduce by a lot because people actually began to use their bags multiple times and textile ones became much more common. Also, AFAIK biodegradable and recycled bags are encouraged by various means so they did also have become much more common. At least the store next to me, that is part of one of the biggest groceries chains in the country, sell bags that are actually certified as biodegradable or recycled, and it isn't just fancy buzzwords.
The result was not anywhere near what you or everyone else thinks, because the ban has not been in effect for over 50 years yet, Which is the minimum time you have to use reuseable bags for it to make any sense for the environment. The absolute worst is actually organic cotton bags. The number of times you have to use each and every one of those to barely offset the impact of plastic bags is basically every time you go shopping for all of your life. The plastic bag ban is like every other "green" initiative, a bold faced lie.
I mean, the EU has banned tungsten light a long time ago, but it was a sale ban. You could use existing light bulbs until they died, you just couldn't get new ones. Or do I misunderstand something here?
@@bobsworth7082 I was primarily concerned with potentially misunderstanding the new Canadian law and if it might refer to a totally different type of lighting, but since the first two responses weren't "that's not what the video is talking about at all", I think I'm good.
in our house with the old 60w bulbs they needed changing about 3 times a year. I have had a smart bulb in my room for over 5 years now and even with its lower max wattage anyway I have it set to 5% brightness, and it is still more than light enough for my room.
@@uis246 they have some purposes. Heater, resistor, indicator... we use a couple of them in series to check 750V tram overhead lines, they are always reliable... unlike the "high tech" electronic indicator which often shows errors/ needs battery replacement, good luck finding a 9V at 2am also used by electricians to check mains, electronic tools show induced voltage which can be quite high but has 0 amps behind it and is safe to touch, a load makes this induced voltage go away
A fun note. Fans, motors, and another circuitry that are not visible can use PWM efficiently. But when it's a light emitting device, I feel all of those should be banned if using PWM controllers.
When I was in college we had to do a small research paper on cfl vs led. I don’t think the professor knew how much led had taken over. Our whole paper was basically led are better and no need to use cfl.
Same thing in the EU. Single use plastics are banned in the EU which honestly makes sense in many cases, but often they are just annoying. A clut drink in germany is Capri-Sun, and since the ban every part of a Capri-Sun is out of plastic except the straw (Which is wrapped in plastic). Now the straws simply disintegrate whilst using them.
They ban the incandescent blubs years ago in the UK, the first thing that happened was that the 'die hards' brought up the old stocks of blubs, but the new blubs used much less power 9-11 watts appossed to 100w bulbs. Everything is about saving power and thereby saving money.
@@Idiomatick can you refresh my memory on that ban? because I'm sure that I walked passed a bunch at my local Canadian tire yesterday. and i will continue to buy those until i can readily find leds that arent crappy ultra bright blue white with a flicker that is competing for my attention with the wining sound they make.
@@Paintbullits Are you a time traveler? You can get specialty bulbs still (like for ovens or odd decorative bulbs for chandeliers) but unless you really are a time traveler, you've likely not been seeing incandescents. And led bulbs haven't had ugly colours, noise, or flickering for... maybe 8 or 9 years now. Do you shop in an antique store? Maybe there is something wrong with your house? I guarantee that most lights other than the ones you've been buying are led, or flourescents.
@@Idiomatick you do make a good point. the wiring where i like is old af and kind of sketchy. maybe that's it idk. im going to have to argue with you about 2 things though. i bought a 4 pack of 60w incandescent at my local Canadian tire a couple months ago because the one i use to keep my welding rods warm and dry burned out, no antique store required. my second argument being colour, every led seems to advertise 3200 kelvin. some can be 3000 k but even that is off putting in the extreme. 2700 k and lower please if any companies are listening. as to the time traveller accusation, i did have to tune up the timing of my points & condenser ignition this weekend lol.
I dumped all CCFL in my house and switched them to LED. The energy bill saving pays the LED cost in a year. This is the easiest way to lower the energy bill.
If this is true then for some things like this if the government wants to push it they should just send everyone/give out free bulbs and charge you a small "we gave you free LED bulbs" fee that's below what you would've paid anyway for the first year.
Also you're so ... not smart by the way, I just realized you said CCFL. So I guess I'm not smart either, but you do realize there is NO WAY you are saving enough money -- at least not enough to pay off your LED bulbs in a year? You shouldn't have dumped them, you should have replaced them as they died out. LED is barely more energy efficient, it just has a longer life.
@@rewardilicious LEDs are around 50% more efficient, up to 80%. Its very possible that he could've saved the price of the LED bulbs if he had a large house and a lot of lighting. Also the fact that you commented twice, 15 minutes apart, shows how weird you are.
@@rewardilicious maybe not in a year but still quickly. LEDs cost just over a dollar in bulk, and are about 20-30% more efficient than CFLs. In states with high energy rates, the payoff may be only 2-3 years with "avg" usage. Problem is disposing of cfls is a pain, so better to do it all at once
One of the stupidest moves was in the UK when the government decided we should all drive diesel cars... then 10 years later announced they should be banned. Maybe people who don't know what they are talking about should be slower to push their stupid changes through.
Sure which is why I suggest they hold off making legislation until they can be sure it's not counter-productive. If they can never be sure then don't make the legislation at all.
@almor2445 which is a flawed argument. You can not prove a negative, and without any form of regulation, things quickly fall apart until a new system is formed. One has to make due with the information they have at this time to make decisions that affect tomorrow. Leaders just have to do so with decisions that have greater effects.
Like with corn ethanol, they only studdied the emission and environmental impact of burning it vs regular gas. They forgot to add in the farming done and the equipment used, and it also affects corn prices. Making ethanol from corn ends up being worse for environment after they studied it years now after the fact
In Germany, we always had alternatives to plastic bags - usually made of cloth. The issue was always the huge amount of single use plastic bags that were mostly really just used once. Yes, it was REALLY thin plastic, but a bag has still the same effect, when it gets blown around and lands somewhere in nature.
Yup. 25 years ago lighting technology of the time let me ride my bike once for 30 minutes down a mountain with a halogen headlight and a 1.5kg battery pack that required a water-bottle cage to mount - it was dangerously dim for the speeds we were doing but it was all we could get at the time. For the last decade I've been getting orders-of-magnitude more light from LED bike lights. I do at least two mass-participation long-distance night rides per year that require 7+ hours of illumination on completely unlit country roads. A tiny, dirt-cheap, commuter LED weighing under 100g will put out 3x as much light as those old halogens did for at least 2 hours. Yeah, my pathetic little 'backup' light is at least 10x better than the old halogens and my serious headlight is a similar 10x jump over my little backup light.
I've move 5 times in the past 13yrs and my expensive 25 led bulb followed me to each place, all my 19$ 3pk led bulb keep dying on me. A few months pass and they start flickering so I'm sure they're purposely making them very cheap now but that first bulb I bought is still going strong
They are making LED lights that are designed to fail by over-driving the LED's and causing problems with solder joints & causes components to fail over time either the power supply or blows one of the light emitting diodes up. But these L.E.D bulbs can be repaired unlike tungsten.
I also come from the live entertainment lighting industry. There is some truth to the sentiment of the question but a lot of it is overblown. I do not want to assume where the person asking the question is based out of but in the US, the ban does not affect the special lamps we use. Replacements do not cost $10k unless they are buying a whole new fixture. There are retrofit solutions that are available to the theater market (Source 4 WRD II for example) that are less than $1K. More expensive than a lamp, yes but the energy savings and over time replacement costs will make up for it. Truthful though I think the ban is still a bit early - the costs are a bit heavy for small theaters. The LED technology is comparable (and in some ways supercedes) the performance of tungsten lamps today - but its still bleeding edge. Costs have come down but not quite enough to just a ban and not impact to venues.. WITH THAT SAID, a ban needs to happen at some point. The industry is VERY slow to adopt change (Linus mentioned analog DMX control in a previous episode - an analogue protocol from the 60s). There is still a hot debate in the communities on LEDs vs Tungstens. The sentiment of moving from tungsten to LED is analogous to "pry them from my cold, dead hands". LEDs could be absolutely perfect and lighting designers (LDs) will still bulk at them. The only way to really move the industry as a whole is through legislation. Tungsten has its use case but its time we move away from using it as widely as we do.
Most of the lamps i see on the road these days are already LED. The huge dimmercitys of yesteryear are reduced to a fourth of the size since ist mostly just power and DMX distibution. Also the Lamps are getting Lighter while keeping a comparable output and featureset, allowing more lamps per truss.
LED bulbs have come such a long way, that honestly I am waiting for the enshitification of them for capitalistic exploitation. The low cost, longevity, and efficiency of them makes them the obvious choice for literally almost everything. There are very few applications of incandescents that you cannot do with LED other than things like heat lamps. Small theaters in the US might not be able to invest in them in the short term, but literally if you can’t, you weren’t going to survive anyway and you need to find new avenues for revenue generation.
We use a lot of LED lights and even laser lights in Theatre productions. Effectively our only Tungsten lights are Follow spots ranging from 2800-4000W and that isn’t even Tungsten. But even that can be changed to follow me systems although not a feasible option for small theatres.
You also don't need to jump directly from an old school follow to a follow me system. There are plenty of options for LED equipped Follow spots ranging from hobbyist level to the full robert juliat with all the bells and whistles. I might be wrong, but im pretty sure i have even seen drop in replacement bulbs for spots that just run standard ac wallpower through the bulb.
@@mistermuell8239 LED bulbs generally take up more space than halogen for the same amount of light output, so any fittings designed for halogen are going to be at best out of focus if you put an LED replacement in, at worst, it won't fit at all.
Have you noticed them going up relative to inflation? I'd recommend only getting LED lights that are either not bulb shaped or have the faux incandescent filaments in them. The really cheap lights with the plastic diffusion bulb on them often have terrible heat dissipation that overly stresses their driver components making them fail prematurely.
@@VitalVampyr they seemed to have gone up only in the last couple months, and it looks to be about 10-20% so it’s within Australia’s inflation rate I suppose
LED lights in mexico for the most part is very accesible and cheap with alot of options they are offering the only expensive option is only phillips aside from any other brand they are more reasonably priced for the functionality and purpose that they give. Also mexico also banned plastic bans some time ago it was rough at the start where customers demanded bags but instead to compensate they gave cardboard boxes instead currently right now most of the citezens use re-usable bags but there are those rare ocasions where turists/visitors expect a bag and are informed that plastic bags are banned and then question it when was it done only to be told years ago.
Also some bulb sizes are too tiny to fit an AC to DC circuit inside (like some fancy bathroom lights), so they run half-wave so 25 or 30hz which is annoying as fuck (imagine backlight strobing at this rate)
Lighting LEDs still are utter crap! These shit ligths die within a few years, even the most expensive ones! In laces where an old Tungsten light buld worked for 20 years and more .. and then these f*cking LEDs costing like ten times as much eats any advantage they could have brough in power saving.
Re: viewership of human of space flights vs autonomous, the heard of research at Oculus back in the day i think put it in the best way I've ever heard: For most people, their favorite "content" IS other people. It sounds weird to say but I think he really hit the nail on the head in a way I hadn't thought of until that point. We're social animals. It's engrained into us.
Banning plastic bags is a funny concept like let’s just ignore all the plastic wrapped pallets and packaging in the shipping and process and supply chain. People using plastic grocery is definitely producing the most environmental impact... definitely not the industrial trash compactor full of packaging and shipping material waste
If we look about the stats plastic is really good -> from climate change point of view The food which would be thrown out and is using 10 times more energy to be produced is really understatement who mich plastic packing is preventing waste Even more if we look at meat or electronic devices which need even more energy and resources to be produced All fun fact 90% of oil is directly used/burned for driving around The plastic industries used less then 10% of the oil and this includes a huge range of products e.g air wings to medicine products to coatings Sure recycling has a looooong way to get good as (especially in the USA) but the technology is there and enough money has to be invested over the long run + political will of changing the infrastructure -> and the plastic waste problem will be mostly resolved
Trading personal blame for pollution and climate change is the most pathetic action humanity is capable of. It's not only actively harmful to human existence, it's a lazy acceptance of a lie that even a child should be able to detect.
LED bulbs should last years. The problem is they are put into cheap designs. As a result, I've had LED bulbs fail more quickly than the few incandescent ones I still have.
In my experience the LED bulbs are better for this than the CFL bulbs they replace (especially in enclosed fixtures: CFL bulbs don't like enclosed fixtures at all).
Sounds like the proper way to do a ban on tungsten bulbs is to ban the manufacturing/importing of them. Not the sale. Then let the retailers gradually increase the price over time as supply dries up. And as the price increases the LED lights get bought more, increasing the demand. That demand incentivizes LED light brands to ramp up production because they are about to get a whole lot more sales soon as rhe tungsten bulb supply dwindles. Then, as the supply of LED lights increases, and the only the smallest, most budget live theaters still have yet to replace their tungsten bulbs yet finally do replace them, then yhe LED lights could be a much better price.
On the consumer side, for regular at home lighting solutions, there hasn't been a reason to buy anything other than LED bulbs now for years. I just moved into a new place and replaced all the bulbs with with LED ones and they cost me 99 cents a bulb. At that price, especially with their longevity and power consumption, it's hard to have any practical justification for incandescent alternatives.
The problem with stage lighting is that it is literately still based on candle light. New LED lights are not just bulbs, but entire robotic fixtures that can be remotely rotated, tilted, colored (typically requiring gels on conventional lights), and so forth. And since they use much less energy, they last a lot longer. At some point in time you controlled lights with physical switches, and that has long since moved to computer control lighting systems, in the 90's. The gap has been closed between only being able to dim lights to not even needing to change the light positions between shows. A lot of the same tech innovations for stagecraft has also made it's way into television studios, who once had to have painted matte backgrounds before computers let them have titles and photos. Live stage productions now no longer need to do painted backdrops when they can use a LED photographic backdrop or a projection backdrop, which saves scene change time.
An RGB LED will not replace a white light with a gel, because the RGB will interact with the objects on stage in a different way to the gel-coloured lights. You can see this on a TV screen even though the TV screen uses RGB lights to display the image. Technology Connections did a video on this a few years back.
It's a bit of a meme. Nobody seriously goes "BC/WA/OR" or "AK/YT/BC/WA/OR/Northern CA" should separate. It's just more of a pacific ring of fire shared geography that connects the wider area. The reason BC, WA and OR are so similar is because they were once the same "Oregon Territory".
NJ banned plastic bags.... But also paper bags. I can't say I agree with this. Certainly my main issue is I have to pay for a reusable bag, and these reusable bags have begun to be treated like plastic disposable bags. Frankly, I think paper would be better due to the recyclability. But it costs more for them to give out free paper. But I think tungsten bulbs still have a place. And good luck telling me not to use them and enforcing it. I think broadly it'll push to have more LED bulbs, or maybe incentivize LED purchases by some kind of credit maybe. Push people who just have them because they don't need to replace them out, but keep a small expensive amount on shelves, rather than "ban." Also, of note, you aren't banned from having plastic bags, or using them to trash shit... The ban is strictly on retailers providing or selling plastic bags at the point of sale for other goods.
I attend the theatre a lot in London, mainly in the West End, but a fair amount in outlying theatres too. I usually wait at the stage door to say hi to the cast, get them to sign the programme if one is available, and take a picture with them. I've met so many wonderful people this way, from front of house staff, to security and, of course, the actors and actresses themselves. I love the intimacy of smaller venues too. My favourites have to be Leicester Square Theatre and The Museum of Comedy, the latter being particularly intimate. As for disposable plastic bags vs paper bags, it's not just the cost of creation vs re-use, but the long-term cost in terms of the environment. Paper bags rot down, whereas plastic bags don't. We have a burgeoning issue with microplastics on this planet, which have now been found everywhere, and it's worrying as we don't know the long-term issues this may cause. With paper, once it rots, it feeds the environment.
In Louisiana, I only ran into milk bags for lunch at school. From elementary to high school, the cafeteria would have regular, chocolate and strawberry milk 'pouches' which you would poke a straw into. It was the only place they appeared, but they do put milk in bags in the US, just not at stores.
4:30 silicon straws are actually the way to go. I have some that I can pop open to clean the middle easily, and they’re soft so feel nicer to use. Glass and metal ones suck because they don’t feel good to use and cleaning the middle is difficult.
@@alhira5098 yeah you can clean them but it’s just a lot more difficult to clean properly with a pipe cleaner vs just using a normal scourer/sponge with the straw open where you can clean it properly in a couple of seconds, and you can clearly see it’s clean.
With the plastic straws and bags and whatever else bans, just look at other products on the shelves. Sooner or later, you'll start noticing other products will start to contain more plastic. Packaging sizes will slowly start to increase or become thicker. Or products will start appearing on products that doesn't normally have any (individually wrapped apples or bananas, anyone?) Ban one source of plastic and the industry will simply make up for it elsewhere. Not making any political statement, I just find it interesting. I live somewhere that instituted a bag ban a while ago, and over the years, many people have made the same comments. Plus, now whenever you go to the store, there are hundreds of reusable bags waiting to be purchased... and that's just what's on the shelves/hooks, that's not counting the warehouses...
Yeah I noticed Tim Horton's and A&W went from paper cups and plastic straws to paper straws and plastic cups! (at least for cold drinks). The plastic cups use a LOT more plastic. Also the Canadian plastic ban only bans consumer facing plastic. Giant plastic bags used for industrial material handling are exempt.
Light technology advanced so fast that you could replace a burned out tungsten light with a CFL when those got cost effective, and then by the time the CFL died it would be time to switch to LED because now those are better than the florescents. My only issue with LEDs getting some cheap is that now I keep seeing a bunch of fixtures with the LEDs built into them where you can't replace the bulb without replacing the whole thing.
The name of the hypothetical country of the Pacific Northwest (BC, Washington, Oregon) is Cascadia. There have been not too serious proposals to form such a nation, but it would make sense in a different reality.
You have horribe light quality eventhough its like ( "CRI 96" ) It's still going to be bad compared to a genuine high quality light. It will work I suppose.
@@anonymouse7074 the sun is the best light source there is. Even a tungsten lignt is going to shift it's hue later down it's life. I prefer using the sun. Even if it's unpredictable.
The discussion of the efficiency of tungsten bulbs needs an asterisk that is often overlooked. They are very inefficient for lighting, but the waste energy is heat. If that heat is dumped into the room, and the room was going to be heated by resistive heating anyways, then there is literally zero waste. The asterisk on this asterisk is that it gets more complicated if the heat is not dumped into the room, if the room is heated by natural gas or a heat pump, and of course if the room is air conditioned instead of heated then it actually increases the cooling load. But all of this is to say there are scenarios where tungsten bulbs do make a lot of sense. I don't like governments using laws to try to force "progress" like this. LED bulbs are more efficient and that alone is reason enough for most people to replace their tungsten bulbs *without* needing government regulations. These regulations only add burdens to the people who really would be better off with tungsten bulbs.
With plastic bags, the bigger thing to question is that it's probably more damage to environment for your typical suburbanite to drive to the grocery store in their SUV than if the bag is plastic or paper. Our car dependent infrastructure in the US and Canada is a far bigger burden to the environment than any of these other bans.
When you were talking about regional similarities between BC and WA/OR: it's the same way in Minnesota when I talk to people in SW Ont. I'm like "These are my people!"
As much as I hate super regulated things, my only gripe with LEDs is the lack of regulation on headlight limiters. Even when high beams are off, they're still too bright. I still remember the days of my dad being chased down like a most wanted target by police because he had his brights on all the time. They don't do that anymore, and the brighter lights we have now absolutely murder your vision on the road.
OMG I have wished for YEARS that the Olympics would stop telling the sob stories of the athletes and just show the damn events. I don't care about the Javelin throw, but I care about it when I'm watching the Olympics. I want more sport, and its literally the only time I actually watch sports (or used to). Now, it's melodrama and more like a reality show than it is actually watching the events.
4:00 I feel like Linus missed the point here, or perhaps this was badly implemented in Canada. In the uk you can still get plastic bags but now have to pay for them. This reduced the number of people using single use plastic bags massively (I think by like 70-90% or something) and so I’d say the majority of people now have their own bags rheirnbring with them. I’ve been using the same bag that can comfortably hold like 5kg or maybe more of shopping for over 10 years now. But maybe in Canada they just switched from plastic to paper bags in which case that’s very dumb
For a little context here in Canada. We already HAD the program to discourage plastic bags buy charging for them. It started with grocery stores, where you often had to buy them at checkout where they also offered the reusable option that economically made much more sense (or in my case...those ikea bags....amazing for large grocery runs). and as you said, if you walk around stores here, 70% of people really do bring their own reusable bags. This could have EASILY been expanded to takeout, and any other use of plastic bags. The problem is this "current ban" that we ended up with is a full ban. no store is allowed to provide plastic bags for the use of transportation (well get to other uses later). You basically end up had to "buy a cloth bag" with no alternatives. And in peak irony (as foreshadowed earlier)....The amount of plastic bags thrown away by any individual has basically not changed...as for every bag I did not get from the grocery store..I had to purposefully buy in the form of a trash bag. It's just some strange policy that only exists for the sake of grandstanding.
Pasta straws are a great idea actually. Use uncut ziti. Maybe if weird shapes like that find other uses, the Euros will stop hoarding all the cool ones. De Cecco offers ~40 shapes for sale in the US, and ~140 in Italy.
Genuenly great quality in lighting from LEDs have become so much cheaper, and better in the recent years. Even a tungsten lamp will shift to green hues in the end of its life cycle. So the sun still stays the best source. Your small theater / filming company will survive those costs.
He's not wrong on the whole controller aspect. I do electrical work for commercial buildings and when I started 8 years ago, NONE of the lights, while being LED, would be able to do much of anything, you still had a normal switch and had one set color temp and light output. I just finished work in a building a few months ago where the new lights in the dispatch for EMS could be changed in color temps, and DC low voltage wire could dim the lights. A recent church just swapped out their old HID can lights for LEDs and not only are they brighter, but they can be dimmed down to almost nothing, AND to boot on everything else, the switches and dimming is completely wireless. All we had to do was make sure all the lights had a constant power and all the groups could be controlled via apps. Was it expensive to buy? Probably, was it worth it? Easily. They went from 8200W down to at least half that.
Re: paper straws. You could just drink out of a cup. The only time I ever use a straw is for milkshakes at fast food places. Maybe we can find better ways to drink milkshakes, or not drink them at all?
I review studio lights on my channel and just in the last 6 months there’s been a Huge advancement on the OEM supply side for COB LED’s. Changeover is gonna be fast and huge, even at the low end. Just fantastic.
Some parts of the US uesrd to do plastic bags for milk. I remember when I stayed with my grandmother in Louisiana they had bags of milk you would stab a straw into. Prior to and after living there it was small milk cartons.
Just a comment on the plastic bag ban, give it a couple of years to adjust and see. I was very sceptical of plastic bag ban here in NZ back in 2019 for the same reasons of the energy costs of a plastic bag to a reusable one, but I have totally changed my mind 4 years on as I am used to it, I have not bought a new reusable bag in years, and have certainly got my moneys worth so far, and since I will go to the shops 3 times a week I probably have got pretty close to paying off the energy bill already too (and the bags are still like new)
No the plastic bag ban was stupid, and pure virtue signalling from a stupid Government. People were already moving to re-usable bags, supermarkets were giving them out for free and were giving you a discount if you used your own bags. The “single use” bags that they banned were almost always being kept to be reused for something else, many people used them for bin liners which they now have to buy bags for this purpose. Governments love making stupid rules like banning “single use plastics” when it’s bags or straws, but do absolutely nothing to stop all theThe other plastic packaging that we use and is either difficult or expensive to recycle. Not to mention the cheap throwaway goods they allow to be imported by the tonne.
on the point about small sporting events, i once went to a ice hockey game in south tyrol, maybe 200 people there watching, i don't even like ice hockey but this was one of the best sporting events i ever went to
I keep alot of reptiles as pets, i use tungesten lights for highting. And use floresent tubes to cover some of the uv. To buy specialized lights now costs 20 to 30x for a light that you lucky if it lasts 6 months. And i run 50 of them.
I've never used a paper straw that lasted to the end of the drink. Stupid ban and I can't imagine it's making a difference while people are still buying cases of individual waters in plastic and China is relentless in their manufacturing and pollution. You could probably make 100 straws from the 4 plastic forks I was given with my salad from the deli down the street.
There is a video from Technology Connections about LED lights on traffic stop lights. The problem is in places where snow is a problem. Traditional tungsten light can melt the snow, but LEDs won't, so the light stop signal gets blocked with snow, causing accidents
The whole point of that video is that despite that, LED bulbs are still vastly superior for traffic lights and not ever using them because of this one rare, easily worked around edge case is silly.
The tough part with concert lighting is that a lot of fixtures require a point source of light in order to focus properly. Take a Leko for instance, the bulb itself is about the size of a car headlight bulb, but puts out 750 watts. (14000 lumens maybe) LEDs just can put out that amount of brightness with such a small footprint. With a wider footprint, it's a lot harder to get that into focus. Not saying it's not possible, but it's not a simple drop in replacement. The big moving head fixtures you see at shows use a carbon arc lamp which is a true point source. Except, funny thing with those, once they're on, they have to stay on for the rest of the day (or til end of the show). Striking them (turning them on) is what strains the lamp the most, so they keep them on and they use a mechanical shutter for dimming. They draw like 1000W each, lol. Point being, to emulate the CRI, focus spread, dimming characteristics, etc is HARD. I still use tungsten around my house because I have yet to find an LED that truly emulates a tungsten bulb. It's like every bulb falls short for one reason. Either flicker, CRI, poor dimming characteristics... Something. I'm still giving them a shot every few months, and they're definitely getting better. But grr... I still can't find a good PAR spot light.
Coming from a country that began phasing them out 15 years ago, I don't miss them. What I do miss however are all the beautiful neon light signs. Leds can't provide that glow. So every single city on this planet looks more boring now.
Government shouldn't be banning light bulbs. People will use them when they make sense. The govt can't know every single use scenario & account for it. There are uses where i want to use LED for cost savings but they're not quite there yet.
LEDs are already suffering the cost cutting that CFLs went through, I have BOXES of dead LED replacement bulbs that have only started showing up in the last 4 years, and the failures are more of the newer than the older bulbs. So sadly.. with all this save energy, now we are starting to go back to the CFL problem of generating MORE waste to pinch pennies.
The manifesting ban in the US caused the sudden drop in prices, they also gave the manufactures a bunch of money to get the cost down for them. Ever since the prices went down. You don't reuse the milk bags right?
only problem I have with LED lights is in some ways the quality of light is not right and what I mean by that is the way it reflects and refracts. An example of what I mean, a small town near me has a fountain that is lit with colored lights at night, a few years ago they switched to LED and the color seems to reflect off the surface and light up the fountain but the light and water can easily be seen as separate entities, the old lights looked more like it actually changed the color of the fountain water and blended better
We still use some theater lights made before WW2, and they are still fine. Theater lightning is not a home light bulb, everything costs shitload of money and always costed. This is not made for 2-5 years and thrown away, lights are maintained, reapired and in service for decades. LED lights are never as good and as natural as theater lights with filters. They might fake spectrum with possibilities of white color change (which is irrelevant for theater), without the full spectrum filters are basically useless. LED FHR (basic light in theatre) are basically nonexistent with colors. And even if you have light with colors, it requires whole electrical circuits to be done differentely, because lights in theater are power controlled, LEDs require uncontrolled circuits and DMX everywhere. Not mentioning this needs lots and lots of dmx channels, so new ligthning controller (which itself can be 5000$ and more). For amateur theatre scene this ban is killer, nobody has this amounts of money.
The thing I hate about bag bans/charges is the way that the supermarket packs the bag. They try to cram as much as will physically fit into the bag (with no consideration to how the food is in there so long as it fits) so I don't need two and now I have a flimsy bag with WAY too much weight in it that I have to somehow carry home (haven't had a car since covid started). I don't care if that bag cost me, use multiple so that I can manage the weight. That's why I'm getting the bag in the first place, to simplify the carrying process of multiple awkward objects.
Must be a US thing. Most everywhere else you pack your own bags. Meanwhile the benefits of bag tax are psychological. People start seeing them as valuable and don't throw them, randomly. This is amazing. Bags are gateway trash. People tend to throw their trash where they should not, if they see a place someone else thru their trash. Bags are colorful and fly in the wind.
@kopkaljdsao I'm from Australia, not the US. There are places that make you pack your own, but I don't go there. I honestly don't care what bags cost. They're a momentary convenience to get the goods home.
In my country they banned tungsten lamps that over 90watt, I think. I don't know for now, regular "weak" ones still can be purchased, but several years ago I was totally able to 200 watt tungsten lamps. It's so stupid, but I guess it's fine for my country, I don't know - sellers just renamed those lamps into heaters, so it's not lamp anymore, it's heater, like in old times, we had that soviet heater, that was just big lamp with reflective dish.
So i looked at it, and appears that stronger woven plastic bags are better for the environment. Reason? they take about 10 to 20 times the amount of plastic used in a single descartable, yet they can last decades. while also have way less environment impact than making a Colton one.
What backwards ass country are you living in where tungsten lightbulbs are still being used in theater? I did my stagehand degree 15 years ago and every second hand light we had available to work with was already halogen, LED was just making its entry. These days the theater I work at has a handful of halogen front lights but everything else is LED. This is a question from 2010, my dudes.
In France they banned fluorescent tubes sale in july 2023 for private housing. Problem is nobody saw it coming and many houses have fixtures for them in at least in garages and whatnot. Now you are supposed to get equivalent LED strips but I personally have no idea if fixtures are supposed to compatible out of the box or what. I'm not saying I'll miss fluorescent tubes they give me a headache but they could have prepared people a lot better.
The LED tubes are compatible if they fit the dimensions of your fluorescent tube. HOWEVER. You need to change the fuse of the fluorescent fixture to a LED-compatible one.
I have never really used straws, so the plastic straws ban doesnt really affect me. But those who need them due to some health condition, there luckily are reusable alternatives that are not banned for them
unfortunately LED stage lights are designed as disposable units when an LED dies. Just repairing them is a huge pain - like finding the single dead LED out of 10-40 is a huge pain even after the huge pain of getting the fixture apart. Even if you wanted to just replace the PCB the LED's are on, no one sells replacements..
Im an audio guy but the move to LED seems like a no-brainer. you save in gel, bulbs and power. not to mention the reduced risk of fire or lamps exploding. One lamp exploding into an audience, while rare now days, could easily bring an insurance fee higher than an entire LED lighting rig... This wont kill live theatre. It might hurt the little guys, and that isn't great, but theatre as a whole will live on.
Manufacturing every part of a LED light bulb require an insane amount of technology is a wide variety of fields. It requires being an insanely big conglomerate or have access to a reliable supply chain. Manufacturing an incandescent light bulb require a metal coil in a glass envelope with some gas.
At least in the U.S., the ban on tungsten lights does not include specialty lights, including those used in theatre/production/etc.
Us does something sensible for once
Tungsten lights SHOULD be banned - not because they are particularly egregious but because sometimes decommissioning the use of something is the ‘nudge’ people reluctant to change need to move to something that’s beneficial to everyone.
LEDs are far cheaper, more efficient, don’t generate the level of heat that can sometimes cook performers onstage, are way more reliable and durable. I don’t know why certain industries continue to pour their own money into a sinkhole and make anachronistic excuses for it. That sortve nonsense is precisely why alcoholics in denial require an intervention.
@@ThiccAssRaccoonHey, careful there. The definition of "speciality" might be so broad that it makes the ban itself irrelevant.
SUVs are allowed to get horrendous gas mileage because they're exempted from fuel consumption requirements for being work vehicles. An exception big enough to drive an SUV through.
@@Demmrir if it's a big enough problem they will just put a tax on them so led is the most sensible option.
@@ThiccAssRaccoon wow America bad? Original and new take on the Internet!
Paper straws...last time I got a sandwich at a Subway, it came with a drink and that came in a cup made of 21g of plastic (yes I actually did dry and weigh it later on a lab scale) and a lid that was 2g of plastic, but I was given a paper straw (where plastic would have been about 1g) that disintegrated before I finished the drink. Pointless.
Its about wasting everyone's time by hyper-focusing on a single, minor element of pollution for the longest time possible to deflect attention form the giant industries overseas doing most of it. Never forget that the "carbon footprint" was invented by an oil giant.
I bought some cheap (but decent quality) metal straws online, and I keep a few in my bag.
@@SocksAndPuppets Metal straws has a death count.
@@aj.j5833which makes them even more metal
@@SocksAndPuppets that's handy if one carries a bag. But the common size of straw used by most adults is far too big to be kept in anything else, such as a pocket. Everything I carry on me daily fits in the pockets of my jacket. But I would never fit one of those straws in there. So if you don't already carry a bag everywhere, you've nowhere to put it. It's such a silly attempt to force an unneccesary change when, as shown above, the actual effect is negligible and all it really does is give a lesser product that often fails to achieve its purpose while the actual problem areas remain unaddressed. Paper lids would save even more plastic and don't have to make contact with the liquid anywhere near as much. But those are all still plastic. Just another way to guilt the public into feeling bad we're not doing enough to save the planet while the companies actually doing 90% of the damage avoid making the changes that would actually make a difference.
I used to be a production manager for a live theater company. The company was almost dissolved because someone who was borrowing our theater left all our stage lights on for about 2 weeks. Basically every other light and socket had to be replaced for safety issues (i.e. the wiring got overheated and got melted in spots). Thankfully we were able to just remove 3 of our 6 fly bars for lighting and replace them with new LEDs to get enough lighting to run shows, but the next few productions were run on incredibly tight margins.
well you fucked up not checking after the borrow ended
Didn't sue the stuffing out of them?
Why in christ do bulbs that can set themselves on fire not have autodimming/shutoffs?? If anything, this further drives home that they should be banned.
If your lights melt themselves if they're on too long that's a design/installation issue isn't it? Idk if I'd blame the people who left them on.
@@jimbob5891 Honestly I can't say it wasn't instillation problems with 100% certainty, but I do remember that those bulbs were over 1000watt and ran around 300F under standard load. Our investigation found that the bulbs themselves were rated to avoid the kind of prolonged use they got (i.e. needed a cool down period at periodic intervals), and the ventilation might have not been sufficient. Although it was a bit on us for not having a mandatory cool period.
As someone who has worked in pulp and paper industry, paper straws are super unhealthy. Some really nasty chemicals used to make pulp. When they wash it, they definitely do not remove all the black liquor or bleach.
Also, the disintegration of the paper straw... you say eco-friendly, I say wasteful. When you need a second straw to withstand the extended soaking in the drink, i might as well get the plastic… the best is still the lids with a lip for consumption if you want eco-friendly. It's 2 in 1. it might be plastic, but that's one item that's plastic...
I've never understood the need for straws to begin with. Put your lips to your glass or bottle and drink.
@@coffeecoder8162 I think it have a lot to do whit the mugs been so crap and in the US so large that if you tried to drink from then like a regular glass you ether snap your vrist or you spill all over you because the mug just buckled in on it self.
can´t test it here in Sweden because swedes biggest Soda cup size (MacDonald or any other) is the child size in the US.
Might be some flubber from the US that shows up to some food festival and brings US cups whit them to sell... but I doubt that.
@@Zack_Wester I've all sorts of cups.from places and now I just bring my own mug wherever I go. As long as I pay for the drink no one seems to care that I have my own mug.
@@coffeecoder8162 I know the swedish Pressbyrån convenience stores
(kiosks liki shops mostly at/near buss/train stations).
sells coffee/drinks and they offers a permanent discount if you bring your own mug.
(also love the suggestion picture they have for suggestion for what a cup is... creativity).
found it.
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There's been bans on tungsten bulbs in many countries... they're not saying you have to throw out your existing stock, just stopping new sales, why would you assume they're going to tell people to stop using their existing bulbs? how would they even enforce that? Home inspections?
It's so stupid in the first place. Electricity is pretty expensive, so everyone is switching to LEDs on their own. Only those who can't easily make the switch haven't done it yet. The market practically solved it by itself.
@@devalue7064 The evolution of LED lights is actually text book example of forced government policy. The ban of incandescent lights came first in the EU and lightning industry was told to invest LED lights.
As someone who previously worked in high performance LED lighting, it's nice seeing the advancements acknowledged. LED's have come crazy far crazy fast, nowadays chipsets that produce just an insane amount of light with a respectable CRI are not that expensive. The toughest part of using LEDs is really cooling them, that's the big bottleneck when you are pushing hundreds of watts through them since no one really wants active cooling.
It has gotten to the point that I can instantly spot LEDs in outdoor floodlight applications. The big molded heatsink on the back of a flat package gives it away.
Yeah and that lack of cooling, pushing the LEDs to their limits, is starting to generate more waste ( I have cases of dead LED bulbs now, I think in some cases the CFLs and possible tungstens have technically lived longer than some of these newer bulbs ) . CFLs went into that same cycle of cost cutting.
@@NightWolfx03
Those god damn boob lights are the worst offenders. Those closed, glass, boob loghts everyone puts in hallways and on ceilings because they are the cheapest light fixture? They ROAST LED bulbs.
@@NightWolfx03 Yes, the old ones lasted much longer. All the first LEDs installed in my house (around 2012) still work, but the newer ones have been failing constantly.
I understand the newer ones are more efficient and have better CRI, but the older ones lasted longer and were just made better.
My only gripe with LED lights for your house is that the majority of "cheap" LEDs you find at the big box stores are often daylight color temperature, have a 60 Hz flicker, and have an obnoxious level of coil whine to compete with some graphics cards. I'm all for good LED lighting, but please, don't give me manufactured E waste. Give me cheap but good and an incandescent color temperature.
Phillips LED bulbs are great. They also cost an arm and a leg. I think I have one of their bulbs that's going on ten years old now though, so there is that.
Just don't get a Philips "smart bulb": because Philips will brick your controller hub when the newest thing comes out in 5 years.
Our LED bulbs cost less than £3 each. They are perfectly fine, no whines or anything bad. Cheap good ones are out there.
@@delta250a ✨just American things✨ I guess. Unless there's better bulbs out there than the home Depot junk pile and I just don't know about them. That'd be great
@@jamesphillips2285 the Philips WiZ ones are pretty okay actually, they even just run ESP32s internally - though I've found a flaw in the driver board of the 60w tunable white model that causes a capacitor to fail early (although it is repairable!), the other Philips WiZ models aren't bad at all & can even be locally controlled with Home Assistant.
I’ve noticed the “decorative” ones that have the led stick thing in the clear glass are usually pretty good, they’re more expensive than the garbage ones, though they are cheaper than smart bulbs.
The LED lights are significantly more expensive, but if you take how often the tungsten bulbs need to be replaced, and the labor needed to change the bulbs, not to mention the power savings, the gap narrows significantly.
I’ve had far more expensive LEDs fail like Osram and Phillips than I have Incandescent, or CFLs.
I had not one LED fail, ever. And even if they all fail right NOW, they already paid for themselves in electricity.
Also I use a mix of the cheapest LEDs that are actually good.
@@David-ty6my
I started buying cheapo ones after having $10 bulbs fail. My house is also all LEDs now, but I’m just saying I have not had great experiences with them at the time we switched over. CFL and filaments were reliable for me.
I've only had one led light fail (sort of), that I bought 5 years ago, and was probably fixable as it was just flickering every now and then but I replaced it instead of trying that.
that is strange, check your power lines, you may have noise that is killing them, other thing is heat, they don't like it and most cheap leds usually have low heat transfer capabilities...
Funny part of leds in my house the most expensive one is the worst, it was a ip54 for the bathroom and at my house it flickers, complaint to the store, they had it working there for 15 minutes and all good, replaced it nevertheless and the new one does the same... Just decided to live with it and replace it when it fully fails... Even replaced the switch to make sure was not from it...
The plastic bag ban here in Washington has worked out really well. It's not really a ban, we just implemented regulations that require a fee for plastic bags, and those bags are now more reusable. Most people now bring their own bags or just do without bags, so the result was actually a significant decrease in waste.
Yup same in germany i cant even remember anymore when we "banned" plastic bags.
In rare situations i have to buy a bag. I just hate those paper ones since they are just crap when it rains...
Did the same in the UK, banned single use plastic and started charging for any bag that is supplied by the store. So everyone very quickly got into the habit of having a bag with them when they went shopping, I'm still using some cloth bags that I got over five years ago.
Something similar happened where I live. They just forced all stores to put price on "single-use" plastic bags and banned some, that are especially bad. It was received badly at the time, but people adapted and waste did actually reduce by a lot because people actually began to use their bags multiple times and textile ones became much more common. Also, AFAIK biodegradable and recycled bags are encouraged by various means so they did also have become much more common. At least the store next to me, that is part of one of the biggest groceries chains in the country, sell bags that are actually certified as biodegradable or recycled, and it isn't just fancy buzzwords.
The result was not anywhere near what you or everyone else thinks, because the ban has not been in effect for over 50 years yet, Which is the minimum time you have to use reuseable bags for it to make any sense for the environment. The absolute worst is actually organic cotton bags. The number of times you have to use each and every one of those to barely offset the impact of plastic bags is basically every time you go shopping for all of your life.
The plastic bag ban is like every other "green" initiative, a bold faced lie.
Far from most; most people just pay the 5¢ each time
I mean, the EU has banned tungsten light a long time ago, but it was a sale ban. You could use existing light bulbs until they died, you just couldn't get new ones.
Or do I misunderstand something here?
Don't know the rules in canada or us but for the EU what you wrote is correct.
No that’s pretty accurate. There’s no ban on using existing tungsten bulbs, only the sale of new ones
@@bobsworth7082 I was primarily concerned with potentially misunderstanding the new Canadian law and if it might refer to a totally different type of lighting, but since the first two responses weren't "that's not what the video is talking about at all", I think I'm good.
Oh you can always get new ones... being "banned" just means the price is going to change. 😀
You misunderstand how the incandescent bulbs used in theaters have to be replaced...
in our house with the old 60w bulbs they needed changing about 3 times a year. I have had a smart bulb in my room for over 5 years now and even with its lower max wattage anyway I have it set to 5% brightness, and it is still more than light enough for my room.
Tungsten bulbs were banned in EU years ago and you can still buy them if you know where.
Are they sold as heater?
@@uis246 exactly
Hmu
@@uis246 they have some purposes. Heater, resistor, indicator... we use a couple of them in series to check 750V tram overhead lines, they are always reliable... unlike the "high tech" electronic indicator which often shows errors/ needs battery replacement, good luck finding a 9V at 2am
also used by electricians to check mains, electronic tools show induced voltage which can be quite high but has 0 amps behind it and is safe to touch, a load makes this induced voltage go away
@@Mic_Glow I like trains. And trams. Electrical problems need electrical solutions.
A fun note. Fans, motors, and another circuitry that are not visible can use PWM efficiently. But when it's a light emitting device, I feel all of those should be banned if using PWM controllers.
When I was in college we had to do a small research paper on cfl vs led. I don’t think the professor knew how much led had taken over. Our whole paper was basically led are better and no need to use cfl.
I still use CFLs, as sometimes (from my experience) they'll last long than LEDs in the same applications.
That blue LED was absolutely amazing and definitely deserved to go viral.
Same thing in the EU. Single use plastics are banned in the EU which honestly makes sense in many cases, but often they are just annoying. A clut drink in germany is Capri-Sun, and since the ban every part of a Capri-Sun is out of plastic except the straw (Which is wrapped in plastic). Now the straws simply disintegrate whilst using them.
They ban the incandescent blubs years ago in the UK, the first thing that happened was that the 'die hards' brought up the old stocks of blubs, but the new blubs used much less power 9-11 watts appossed to 100w bulbs. Everything is about saving power and thereby saving money.
Canada banned incandescent bulbs for standard consumer use back in 2012.
@@Idiomatick can you refresh my memory on that ban? because I'm sure that I walked passed a bunch at my local Canadian tire yesterday. and i will continue to buy those until i can readily find leds that arent crappy ultra bright blue white with a flicker that is competing for my attention with the wining sound they make.
@@Paintbullits Are you a time traveler? You can get specialty bulbs still (like for ovens or odd decorative bulbs for chandeliers) but unless you really are a time traveler, you've likely not been seeing incandescents. And led bulbs haven't had ugly colours, noise, or flickering for... maybe 8 or 9 years now. Do you shop in an antique store? Maybe there is something wrong with your house?
I guarantee that most lights other than the ones you've been buying are led, or flourescents.
@@PaintbullitsAre you trying to dim them? That's the only circumstance in which I've seen LED bulbs whine, hum or flicker.
@@Idiomatick you do make a good point. the wiring where i like is old af and kind of sketchy. maybe that's it idk.
im going to have to argue with you about 2 things though. i bought a 4 pack of 60w incandescent at my local Canadian tire a couple months ago because the one i use to keep my welding rods warm and dry burned out, no antique store required. my second argument being colour, every led seems to advertise 3200 kelvin. some can be 3000 k but even that is off putting in the extreme. 2700 k and lower please if any companies are listening.
as to the time traveller accusation, i did have to tune up the timing of my points & condenser ignition this weekend lol.
I dumped all CCFL in my house and switched them to LED.
The energy bill saving pays the LED cost in a year. This is the easiest way to lower the energy bill.
CFLs also are pretty bad for the environment disposal wise. No reason to keep them whatsoever
If this is true then for some things like this if the government wants to push it they should just send everyone/give out free bulbs and charge you a small "we gave you free LED bulbs" fee that's below what you would've paid anyway for the first year.
Also you're so ... not smart by the way, I just realized you said CCFL. So I guess I'm not smart either, but you do realize there is NO WAY you are saving enough money -- at least not enough to pay off your LED bulbs in a year? You shouldn't have dumped them, you should have replaced them as they died out. LED is barely more energy efficient, it just has a longer life.
@@rewardilicious LEDs are around 50% more efficient, up to 80%. Its very possible that he could've saved the price of the LED bulbs if he had a large house and a lot of lighting. Also the fact that you commented twice, 15 minutes apart, shows how weird you are.
@@rewardilicious maybe not in a year but still quickly. LEDs cost just over a dollar in bulk, and are about 20-30% more efficient than CFLs. In states with high energy rates, the payoff may be only 2-3 years with "avg" usage. Problem is disposing of cfls is a pain, so better to do it all at once
One of the stupidest moves was in the UK when the government decided we should all drive diesel cars... then 10 years later announced they should be banned. Maybe people who don't know what they are talking about should be slower to push their stupid changes through.
Its only a matter of time before they ban petrol/unleaded and then ban hybrids without giving people a chance to switch cars
Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Usually, one can not have a perfect understanding of the effects of a product and all of its tradeoffs.
Sure which is why I suggest they hold off making legislation until they can be sure it's not counter-productive. If they can never be sure then don't make the legislation at all.
@almor2445 which is a flawed argument. You can not prove a negative, and without any form of regulation, things quickly fall apart until a new system is formed.
One has to make due with the information they have at this time to make decisions that affect tomorrow. Leaders just have to do so with decisions that have greater effects.
Like with corn ethanol, they only studdied the emission and environmental impact of burning it vs regular gas. They forgot to add in the farming done and the equipment used, and it also affects corn prices. Making ethanol from corn ends up being worse for environment after they studied it years now after the fact
In Germany, we always had alternatives to plastic bags - usually made of cloth. The issue was always the huge amount of single use plastic bags that were mostly really just used once.
Yes, it was REALLY thin plastic, but a bag has still the same effect, when it gets blown around and lands somewhere in nature.
You can to some degree thank the EU for the expansion of the marked after the ban of incondecent lights
Yup. 25 years ago lighting technology of the time let me ride my bike once for 30 minutes down a mountain with a halogen headlight and a 1.5kg battery pack that required a water-bottle cage to mount - it was dangerously dim for the speeds we were doing but it was all we could get at the time. For the last decade I've been getting orders-of-magnitude more light from LED bike lights. I do at least two mass-participation long-distance night rides per year that require 7+ hours of illumination on completely unlit country roads. A tiny, dirt-cheap, commuter LED weighing under 100g will put out 3x as much light as those old halogens did for at least 2 hours. Yeah, my pathetic little 'backup' light is at least 10x better than the old halogens and my serious headlight is a similar 10x jump over my little backup light.
LEDs lights have even gotten good enough that I use them to grow my weed
I've move 5 times in the past 13yrs and my expensive 25 led bulb followed me to each place, all my 19$ 3pk led bulb keep dying on me. A few months pass and they start flickering so I'm sure they're purposely making them very cheap now but that first bulb I bought is still going strong
They are making LED lights that are designed to fail by over-driving the LED's and causing problems with solder joints & causes components to fail over time either the power supply or blows one of the light emitting diodes up. But these L.E.D bulbs can be repaired unlike tungsten.
Me, an Oregonian, hearing Linus saying "Oregoners" 😂
Washingtonian yooo
I also come from the live entertainment lighting industry. There is some truth to the sentiment of the question but a lot of it is overblown. I do not want to assume where the person asking the question is based out of but in the US, the ban does not affect the special lamps we use.
Replacements do not cost $10k unless they are buying a whole new fixture. There are retrofit solutions that are available to the theater market (Source 4 WRD II for example) that are less than $1K. More expensive than a lamp, yes but the energy savings and over time replacement costs will make up for it.
Truthful though I think the ban is still a bit early - the costs are a bit heavy for small theaters. The LED technology is comparable (and in some ways supercedes) the performance of tungsten lamps today - but its still bleeding edge. Costs have come down but not quite enough to just a ban and not impact to venues..
WITH THAT SAID, a ban needs to happen at some point. The industry is VERY slow to adopt change (Linus mentioned analog DMX control in a previous episode - an analogue protocol from the 60s). There is still a hot debate in the communities on LEDs vs Tungstens. The sentiment of moving from tungsten to LED is analogous to "pry them from my cold, dead hands". LEDs could be absolutely perfect and lighting designers (LDs) will still bulk at them. The only way to really move the industry as a whole is through legislation.
Tungsten has its use case but its time we move away from using it as widely as we do.
Most of the lamps i see on the road these days are already LED. The huge dimmercitys of yesteryear are reduced to a fourth of the size since ist mostly just power and DMX distibution. Also the Lamps are getting Lighter while keeping a comparable output and featureset, allowing more lamps per truss.
LED bulbs have come such a long way, that honestly I am waiting for the enshitification of them for capitalistic exploitation. The low cost, longevity, and efficiency of them makes them the obvious choice for literally almost everything. There are very few applications of incandescents that you cannot do with LED other than things like heat lamps. Small theaters in the US might not be able to invest in them in the short term, but literally if you can’t, you weren’t going to survive anyway and you need to find new avenues for revenue generation.
We use a lot of LED lights and even laser lights in Theatre productions. Effectively our only Tungsten lights are Follow spots ranging from 2800-4000W and that isn’t even Tungsten. But even that can be changed to follow me systems although not a feasible option for small theatres.
You also don't need to jump directly from an old school follow to a follow me system. There are plenty of options for LED equipped Follow spots ranging from hobbyist level to the full robert juliat with all the bells and whistles. I might be wrong, but im pretty sure i have even seen drop in replacement bulbs for spots that just run standard ac wallpower through the bulb.
@@mistermuell8239 LED bulbs generally take up more space than halogen for the same amount of light output, so any fittings designed for halogen are going to be at best out of focus if you put an LED replacement in, at worst, it won't fit at all.
I’ve already noticed led light prices going up, and reliability going down -_-
Have you noticed them going up relative to inflation?
I'd recommend only getting LED lights that are either not bulb shaped or have the faux incandescent filaments in them. The really cheap lights with the plastic diffusion bulb on them often have terrible heat dissipation that overly stresses their driver components making them fail prematurely.
@@VitalVampyr they seemed to have gone up only in the last couple months, and it looks to be about 10-20% so it’s within Australia’s inflation rate I suppose
LED lights in mexico for the most part is very accesible and cheap with alot of options they are offering the only expensive option is only phillips aside from any other brand they are more reasonably priced for the functionality and purpose that they give.
Also mexico also banned plastic bans some time ago it was rough at the start where customers demanded bags but instead to compensate they gave cardboard boxes instead currently right now most of the citezens use re-usable bags but there are those rare ocasions where turists/visitors expect a bag and are informed that plastic bags are banned and then question it when was it done only to be told years ago.
Also some bulb sizes are too tiny to fit an AC to DC circuit inside (like some fancy bathroom lights), so they run half-wave so 25 or 30hz which is annoying as fuck (imagine backlight strobing at this rate)
Lighting LEDs still are utter crap! These shit ligths die within a few years, even the most expensive ones! In laces where an old Tungsten light buld worked for 20 years and more .. and then these f*cking LEDs costing like ten times as much eats any advantage they could have brough in power saving.
Re: viewership of human of space flights vs autonomous, the heard of research at Oculus back in the day i think put it in the best way I've ever heard: For most people, their favorite "content" IS other people.
It sounds weird to say but I think he really hit the nail on the head in a way I hadn't thought of until that point. We're social animals. It's engrained into us.
Banning plastic bags is a funny concept like let’s just ignore all the plastic wrapped pallets and packaging in the shipping and process and supply chain. People using plastic grocery is definitely producing the most environmental impact... definitely not the industrial trash compactor full of packaging and shipping material waste
I live in a country where plastic packaging is also targeted. And it works. People will always use the whatabout argument.
If we look about the stats plastic is really good -> from climate change point of view
The food which would be thrown out and is using 10 times more energy to be produced is really understatement who mich plastic packing is preventing waste
Even more if we look at meat or electronic devices which need even more energy and resources to be produced
All fun fact 90% of oil is directly used/burned for driving around
The plastic industries used less then 10% of the oil and this includes a huge range of products e.g air wings to medicine products to coatings
Sure recycling has a looooong way to get good as (especially in the USA) but the technology is there and enough money has to be invested over the long run + political will of changing the infrastructure -> and the plastic waste problem will be mostly resolved
Trading personal blame for pollution and climate change is the most pathetic action humanity is capable of.
It's not only actively harmful to human existence, it's a lazy acceptance of a lie that even a child should be able to detect.
LED bulbs should last years. The problem is they are put into cheap designs. As a result, I've had LED bulbs fail more quickly than the few incandescent ones I still have.
In my experience the LED bulbs are better for this than the CFL bulbs they replace (especially in enclosed fixtures: CFL bulbs don't like enclosed fixtures at all).
Sounds like the proper way to do a ban on tungsten bulbs is to ban the manufacturing/importing of them. Not the sale. Then let the retailers gradually increase the price over time as supply dries up. And as the price increases the LED lights get bought more, increasing the demand. That demand incentivizes LED light brands to ramp up production because they are about to get a whole lot more sales soon as rhe tungsten bulb supply dwindles. Then, as the supply of LED lights increases, and the only the smallest, most budget live theaters still have yet to replace their tungsten bulbs yet finally do replace them, then yhe LED lights could be a much better price.
Or maybe an alternative method is to put a tax on tungsten bulbs. It might be a cheaper way of enforcing it.
On the consumer side, for regular at home lighting solutions, there hasn't been a reason to buy anything other than LED bulbs now for years. I just moved into a new place and replaced all the bulbs with with LED ones and they cost me 99 cents a bulb. At that price, especially with their longevity and power consumption, it's hard to have any practical justification for incandescent alternatives.
Do they blink? Because at 99c you can't really do any fancy tricks to make them not blink at 60 hrzs
@@misham6547 not sure what you mean by "blink", but they don't do anything weird. They don't flicker or anything odd like that.
The problem with stage lighting is that it is literately still based on candle light. New LED lights are not just bulbs, but entire robotic fixtures that can be remotely rotated, tilted, colored (typically requiring gels on conventional lights), and so forth. And since they use much less energy, they last a lot longer. At some point in time you controlled lights with physical switches, and that has long since moved to computer control lighting systems, in the 90's. The gap has been closed between only being able to dim lights to not even needing to change the light positions between shows.
A lot of the same tech innovations for stagecraft has also made it's way into television studios, who once had to have painted matte backgrounds before computers let them have titles and photos. Live stage productions now no longer need to do painted backdrops when they can use a LED photographic backdrop or a projection backdrop, which saves scene change time.
For music it's good, you do not need color accuracy and they have brighter colors. In theater this all is useless nonsense.
An RGB LED will not replace a white light with a gel, because the RGB will interact with the objects on stage in a different way to the gel-coloured lights. You can see this on a TV screen even though the TV screen uses RGB lights to display the image.
Technology Connections did a video on this a few years back.
10:20 He's talking about Cascadia
Curious that they don't know the term Cascadia.. 🤔
It's a bit of a meme. Nobody seriously goes "BC/WA/OR" or "AK/YT/BC/WA/OR/Northern CA" should separate. It's just more of a pacific ring of fire shared geography that connects the wider area. The reason BC, WA and OR are so similar is because they were once the same "Oregon Territory".
Pacific North West aka PNW
NJ banned plastic bags.... But also paper bags. I can't say I agree with this. Certainly my main issue is I have to pay for a reusable bag, and these reusable bags have begun to be treated like plastic disposable bags. Frankly, I think paper would be better due to the recyclability. But it costs more for them to give out free paper.
But I think tungsten bulbs still have a place. And good luck telling me not to use them and enforcing it. I think broadly it'll push to have more LED bulbs, or maybe incentivize LED purchases by some kind of credit maybe. Push people who just have them because they don't need to replace them out, but keep a small expensive amount on shelves, rather than "ban."
Also, of note, you aren't banned from having plastic bags, or using them to trash shit... The ban is strictly on retailers providing or selling plastic bags at the point of sale for other goods.
I attend the theatre a lot in London, mainly in the West End, but a fair amount in outlying theatres too. I usually wait at the stage door to say hi to the cast, get them to sign the programme if one is available, and take a picture with them. I've met so many wonderful people this way, from front of house staff, to security and, of course, the actors and actresses themselves.
I love the intimacy of smaller venues too. My favourites have to be Leicester Square Theatre and The Museum of Comedy, the latter being particularly intimate.
As for disposable plastic bags vs paper bags, it's not just the cost of creation vs re-use, but the long-term cost in terms of the environment. Paper bags rot down, whereas plastic bags don't. We have a burgeoning issue with microplastics on this planet, which have now been found everywhere, and it's worrying as we don't know the long-term issues this may cause. With paper, once it rots, it feeds the environment.
In Louisiana, I only ran into milk bags for lunch at school. From elementary to high school, the cafeteria would have regular, chocolate and strawberry milk 'pouches' which you would poke a straw into. It was the only place they appeared, but they do put milk in bags in the US, just not at stores.
4:30 silicon straws are actually the way to go. I have some that I can pop open to clean the middle easily, and they’re soft so feel nicer to use. Glass and metal ones suck because they don’t feel good to use and cleaning the middle is difficult.
Pipe cleaners?
@@alhira5098 yeah you can clean them but it’s just a lot more difficult to clean properly with a pipe cleaner vs just using a normal scourer/sponge with the straw open where you can clean it properly in a couple of seconds, and you can clearly see it’s clean.
With the plastic straws and bags and whatever else bans, just look at other products on the shelves. Sooner or later, you'll start noticing other products will start to contain more plastic. Packaging sizes will slowly start to increase or become thicker. Or products will start appearing on products that doesn't normally have any (individually wrapped apples or bananas, anyone?) Ban one source of plastic and the industry will simply make up for it elsewhere.
Not making any political statement, I just find it interesting. I live somewhere that instituted a bag ban a while ago, and over the years, many people have made the same comments. Plus, now whenever you go to the store, there are hundreds of reusable bags waiting to be purchased... and that's just what's on the shelves/hooks, that's not counting the warehouses...
Yeah I noticed Tim Horton's and A&W went from paper cups and plastic straws to paper straws and plastic cups! (at least for cold drinks).
The plastic cups use a LOT more plastic.
Also the Canadian plastic ban only bans consumer facing plastic. Giant plastic bags used for industrial material handling are exempt.
Light technology advanced so fast that you could replace a burned out tungsten light with a CFL when those got cost effective, and then by the time the CFL died it would be time to switch to LED because now those are better than the florescents. My only issue with LEDs getting some cheap is that now I keep seeing a bunch of fixtures with the LEDs built into them where you can't replace the bulb without replacing the whole thing.
The name of the hypothetical country of the Pacific Northwest (BC, Washington, Oregon) is Cascadia. There have been not too serious proposals to form such a nation, but it would make sense in a different reality.
$10k light is a scam. A high cri cob led is $30-$40. $300 fresnel with that from china, good enough for a small theatre
Yeah they’ve said this about other classes of specialty light and the market quickly adapts
You have horribe light quality eventhough its like ( "CRI 96" )
It's still going to be bad compared to a genuine high quality light.
It will work I suppose.
Yes, led spectrum can't match the sun. That's why bulbs are still used across Hollywood. Which are loud & hot, not great for theater
@@anonymouse7074 the sun is the best light source there is. Even a tungsten lignt is going to shift it's hue later down it's life. I prefer using the sun. Even if it's unpredictable.
It shouldn't be "good enough." It should be better, and cheaper. Otherwise it shouldn't be forced.
My solution to paper straws is to drink from the glass like a grown up.
Glass straws
@@the_expidition427if it breaks, glass shards are unplesant, especially if the glass wasn't tempered.
That's not gonna fly for milk shakes and juice boxes.
The discussion of the efficiency of tungsten bulbs needs an asterisk that is often overlooked. They are very inefficient for lighting, but the waste energy is heat. If that heat is dumped into the room, and the room was going to be heated by resistive heating anyways, then there is literally zero waste. The asterisk on this asterisk is that it gets more complicated if the heat is not dumped into the room, if the room is heated by natural gas or a heat pump, and of course if the room is air conditioned instead of heated then it actually increases the cooling load.
But all of this is to say there are scenarios where tungsten bulbs do make a lot of sense. I don't like governments using laws to try to force "progress" like this. LED bulbs are more efficient and that alone is reason enough for most people to replace their tungsten bulbs *without* needing government regulations. These regulations only add burdens to the people who really would be better off with tungsten bulbs.
With plastic bags, the bigger thing to question is that it's probably more damage to environment for your typical suburbanite to drive to the grocery store in their SUV than if the bag is plastic or paper.
Our car dependent infrastructure in the US and Canada is a far bigger burden to the environment than any of these other bans.
yeah, the issue with these kind of bans is that Legislators don't really think on the logistics of switching to the alternatives they want
When you were talking about regional similarities between BC and WA/OR: it's the same way in Minnesota when I talk to people in SW Ont. I'm like "These are my people!"
As much as I hate super regulated things, my only gripe with LEDs is the lack of regulation on headlight limiters. Even when high beams are off, they're still too bright. I still remember the days of my dad being chased down like a most wanted target by police because he had his brights on all the time. They don't do that anymore, and the brighter lights we have now absolutely murder your vision on the road.
OMG I have wished for YEARS that the Olympics would stop telling the sob stories of the athletes and just show the damn events. I don't care about the Javelin throw, but I care about it when I'm watching the Olympics. I want more sport, and its literally the only time I actually watch sports (or used to). Now, it's melodrama and more like a reality show than it is actually watching the events.
4:00 I feel like Linus missed the point here, or perhaps this was badly implemented in Canada.
In the uk you can still get plastic bags but now have to pay for them. This reduced the number of people using single use plastic bags massively (I think by like 70-90% or something) and so I’d say the majority of people now have their own bags rheirnbring with them. I’ve been using the same bag that can comfortably hold like 5kg or maybe more of shopping for over 10 years now.
But maybe in Canada they just switched from plastic to paper bags in which case that’s very dumb
For a little context here in Canada. We already HAD the program to discourage plastic bags buy charging for them. It started with grocery stores, where you often had to buy them at checkout where they also offered the reusable option that economically made much more sense (or in my case...those ikea bags....amazing for large grocery runs). and as you said, if you walk around stores here, 70% of people really do bring their own reusable bags. This could have EASILY been expanded to takeout, and any other use of plastic bags.
The problem is this "current ban" that we ended up with is a full ban. no store is allowed to provide plastic bags for the use of transportation (well get to other uses later). You basically end up had to "buy a cloth bag" with no alternatives.
And in peak irony (as foreshadowed earlier)....The amount of plastic bags thrown away by any individual has basically not changed...as for every bag I did not get from the grocery store..I had to purposefully buy in the form of a trash bag. It's just some strange policy that only exists for the sake of grandstanding.
Pasta straws are a great idea actually. Use uncut ziti. Maybe if weird shapes like that find other uses, the Euros will stop hoarding all the cool ones. De Cecco offers ~40 shapes for sale in the US, and ~140 in Italy.
Genuenly great quality in lighting from LEDs have become so much cheaper, and better in the recent years. Even a tungsten lamp will shift to green hues in the end of its life cycle.
So the sun still stays the best source.
Your small theater / filming company will survive those costs.
He's not wrong on the whole controller aspect. I do electrical work for commercial buildings and when I started 8 years ago, NONE of the lights, while being LED, would be able to do much of anything, you still had a normal switch and had one set color temp and light output. I just finished work in a building a few months ago where the new lights in the dispatch for EMS could be changed in color temps, and DC low voltage wire could dim the lights. A recent church just swapped out their old HID can lights for LEDs and not only are they brighter, but they can be dimmed down to almost nothing, AND to boot on everything else, the switches and dimming is completely wireless. All we had to do was make sure all the lights had a constant power and all the groups could be controlled via apps. Was it expensive to buy? Probably, was it worth it? Easily. They went from 8200W down to at least half that.
Re: paper straws. You could just drink out of a cup. The only time I ever use a straw is for milkshakes at fast food places. Maybe we can find better ways to drink milkshakes, or not drink them at all?
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for validating the Twizzler straw
I review studio lights on my channel and just in the last 6 months there’s been a Huge advancement on the OEM supply side for COB LED’s. Changeover is gonna be fast and huge, even at the low end. Just fantastic.
For that last bit, BC, WA and OR always been part of the Cascadia movement. We all think very similarly and speak in a similar voice
Some parts of the US uesrd to do plastic bags for milk. I remember when I stayed with my grandmother in Louisiana they had bags of milk you would stab a straw into. Prior to and after living there it was small milk cartons.
Just a comment on the plastic bag ban, give it a couple of years to adjust and see. I was very sceptical of plastic bag ban here in NZ back in 2019 for the same reasons of the energy costs of a plastic bag to a reusable one, but I have totally changed my mind 4 years on as I am used to it, I have not bought a new reusable bag in years, and have certainly got my moneys worth so far, and since I will go to the shops 3 times a week I probably have got pretty close to paying off the energy bill already too (and the bags are still like new)
No the plastic bag ban was stupid, and pure virtue signalling from a stupid Government. People were already moving to re-usable bags, supermarkets were giving them out for free and were giving you a discount if you used your own bags.
The “single use” bags that they banned were almost always being kept to be reused for something else, many people used them for bin liners which they now have to buy bags for this purpose.
Governments love making stupid rules like banning “single use plastics” when it’s bags or straws, but do absolutely nothing to stop all theThe other plastic packaging that we use and is either difficult or expensive to recycle. Not to mention the cheap throwaway goods they allow to be imported by the tonne.
First time I ever saw Bagged Milk was in the early/mid 00s at Kwik Trip, which wasn't even in Canada.
on the point about small sporting events, i once went to a ice hockey game in south tyrol, maybe 200 people there watching, i don't even like ice hockey but this was one of the best sporting events i ever went to
I keep alot of reptiles as pets, i use tungesten lights for highting. And use floresent tubes to cover some of the uv.
To buy specialized lights now costs 20 to 30x for a light that you lucky if it lasts 6 months.
And i run 50 of them.
I think SSDs have advanced extremely fast
I've never used a paper straw that lasted to the end of the drink. Stupid ban and I can't imagine it's making a difference while people are still buying cases of individual waters in plastic and China is relentless in their manufacturing and pollution. You could probably make 100 straws from the 4 plastic forks I was given with my salad from the deli down the street.
There is a video from Technology Connections about LED lights on traffic stop lights. The problem is in places where snow is a problem. Traditional tungsten light can melt the snow, but LEDs won't, so the light stop signal gets blocked with snow, causing accidents
The whole point of that video is that despite that, LED bulbs are still vastly superior for traffic lights and not ever using them because of this one rare, easily worked around edge case is silly.
LED lights can produce insane amounts of heat ...
The tough part with concert lighting is that a lot of fixtures require a point source of light in order to focus properly. Take a Leko for instance, the bulb itself is about the size of a car headlight bulb, but puts out 750 watts. (14000 lumens maybe) LEDs just can put out that amount of brightness with such a small footprint. With a wider footprint, it's a lot harder to get that into focus. Not saying it's not possible, but it's not a simple drop in replacement. The big moving head fixtures you see at shows use a carbon arc lamp which is a true point source. Except, funny thing with those, once they're on, they have to stay on for the rest of the day (or til end of the show). Striking them (turning them on) is what strains the lamp the most, so they keep them on and they use a mechanical shutter for dimming. They draw like 1000W each, lol. Point being, to emulate the CRI, focus spread, dimming characteristics, etc is HARD. I still use tungsten around my house because I have yet to find an LED that truly emulates a tungsten bulb. It's like every bulb falls short for one reason. Either flicker, CRI, poor dimming characteristics... Something. I'm still giving them a shot every few months, and they're definitely getting better. But grr... I still can't find a good PAR spot light.
Coming from a country that began phasing them out 15 years ago, I don't miss them.
What I do miss however are all the beautiful neon light signs. Leds can't provide that glow. So every single city on this planet looks more boring now.
Tell me you don't understand theater lighting without telling me you don't understand theater lighting.
Government shouldn't be banning light bulbs. People will use them when they make sense. The govt can't know every single use scenario & account for it. There are uses where i want to use LED for cost savings but they're not quite there yet.
I'm glad to see you guys hating the plastic bans there.
I've felt alone in hating the plastic bag bans in Washington
LEDs are already suffering the cost cutting that CFLs went through, I have BOXES of dead LED replacement bulbs that have only started showing up in the last 4 years, and the failures are more of the newer than the older bulbs. So sadly.. with all this save energy, now we are starting to go back to the CFL problem of generating MORE waste to pinch pennies.
The manifesting ban in the US caused the sudden drop in prices, they also gave the manufactures a bunch of money to get the cost down for them. Ever since the prices went down. You don't reuse the milk bags right?
only problem I have with LED lights is in some ways the quality of light is not right and what I mean by that is the way it reflects and refracts. An example of what I mean, a small town near me has a fountain that is lit with colored lights at night, a few years ago they switched to LED and the color seems to reflect off the surface and light up the fountain but the light and water can easily be seen as separate entities, the old lights looked more like it actually changed the color of the fountain water and blended better
We still use some theater lights made before WW2, and they are still fine. Theater lightning is not a home light bulb, everything costs shitload of money and always costed. This is not made for 2-5 years and thrown away, lights are maintained, reapired and in service for decades. LED lights are never as good and as natural as theater lights with filters. They might fake spectrum with possibilities of white color change (which is irrelevant for theater), without the full spectrum filters are basically useless. LED FHR (basic light in theatre) are basically nonexistent with colors. And even if you have light with colors, it requires whole electrical circuits to be done differentely, because lights in theater are power controlled, LEDs require uncontrolled circuits and DMX everywhere. Not mentioning this needs lots and lots of dmx channels, so new ligthning controller (which itself can be 5000$ and more). For amateur theatre scene this ban is killer, nobody has this amounts of money.
The thing I hate about bag bans/charges is the way that the supermarket packs the bag. They try to cram as much as will physically fit into the bag (with no consideration to how the food is in there so long as it fits) so I don't need two and now I have a flimsy bag with WAY too much weight in it that I have to somehow carry home (haven't had a car since covid started). I don't care if that bag cost me, use multiple so that I can manage the weight. That's why I'm getting the bag in the first place, to simplify the carrying process of multiple awkward objects.
Must be a US thing. Most everywhere else you pack your own bags. Meanwhile the benefits of bag tax are psychological. People start seeing them as valuable and don't throw them, randomly. This is amazing. Bags are gateway trash. People tend to throw their trash where they should not, if they see a place someone else thru their trash. Bags are colorful and fly in the wind.
@kopkaljdsao I'm from Australia, not the US. There are places that make you pack your own, but I don't go there. I honestly don't care what bags cost. They're a momentary convenience to get the goods home.
In my country they banned tungsten lamps that over 90watt, I think. I don't know for now, regular "weak" ones still can be purchased, but several years ago I was totally able to 200 watt tungsten lamps. It's so stupid, but I guess it's fine for my country, I don't know - sellers just renamed those lamps into heaters, so it's not lamp anymore, it's heater, like in old times, we had that soviet heater, that was just big lamp with reflective dish.
So i looked at it, and appears that stronger woven plastic bags are better for the environment.
Reason? they take about 10 to 20 times the amount of plastic used in a single descartable, yet they can last decades.
while also have way less environment impact than making a Colton one.
4:30 Pahhhsta...triggered. lol
What backwards ass country are you living in where tungsten lightbulbs are still being used in theater? I did my stagehand degree 15 years ago and every second hand light we had available to work with was already halogen, LED was just making its entry. These days the theater I work at has a handful of halogen front lights but everything else is LED. This is a question from 2010, my dudes.
"We've gone from Fluorescents being dominant, to LEDs" ... Most LED lights are Flourescent...
I agree, plastic bans suck. They don't work here in the Philippines. Plastic waste is just replaced by paper waste.
*Laughs in 40 watt Edison bulbs*
In France they banned fluorescent tubes sale in july 2023 for private housing. Problem is nobody saw it coming and many houses have fixtures for them in at least in garages and whatnot. Now you are supposed to get equivalent LED strips but I personally have no idea if fixtures are supposed to compatible out of the box or what. I'm not saying I'll miss fluorescent tubes they give me a headache but they could have prepared people a lot better.
The LED tubes are compatible if they fit the dimensions of your fluorescent tube. HOWEVER. You need to change the fuse of the fluorescent fixture to a LED-compatible one.
I totally feel the same about live theatre.
I have never really used straws, so the plastic straws ban doesnt really affect me. But those who need them due to some health condition, there luckily are reusable alternatives that are not banned for them
We call ourselves Washitonians BTW just so you know
As an Oregonian I also found that segment disgraceful
unfortunately LED stage lights are designed as disposable units when an LED dies. Just repairing them is a huge pain - like finding the single dead LED out of 10-40 is a huge pain even after the huge pain of getting the fixture apart. Even if you wanted to just replace the PCB the LED's are on, no one sells replacements..
At least with bagged milk, the Prairie provinces also don't have it. I've always thought it was a Quebec and Maritimes thing.
Small theaters will survive because they'll keep their old lights and pay the $100 fine if and when someone comes to check that they've switched. :)
BC had milk in bags fairly commonly too but it fell out of favor just before your time.
Im an audio guy but the move to LED seems like a no-brainer. you save in gel, bulbs and power. not to mention the reduced risk of fire or lamps exploding. One lamp exploding into an audience, while rare now days, could easily bring an insurance fee higher than an entire LED lighting rig... This wont kill live theatre. It might hurt the little guys, and that isn't great, but theatre as a whole will live on.
Alberta is pretty similar to the U.S. as well. I spent a couple years there.
Imagine if this causes the theater to shut down, then 90% of the city's tourism just dissipates!
Manufacturing every part of a LED light bulb require an insane amount of technology is a wide variety of fields. It requires being an insanely big conglomerate or have access to a reliable supply chain.
Manufacturing an incandescent light bulb require a metal coil in a glass envelope with some gas.