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Low Energy Lightbulbs
KB Posted Jul 28, 2008
"I'm still threatening to set up one of our old PCs in teh bathroom and ahve it wified up to the broadband, but I@m a bit concerned about how the PC would cope with steam"
Don't worry 2legs, once they sink under the water in the bowl, they don't give off *that* much steam any more. 
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jul 28, 2008
Of course, they're filled with air/gas!
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KB Posted Jul 28, 2008
I wasn't thinking of the steam coming out of the PC, Swl - still, in the interests of good taste perhaps it's a good thing I was misconstrued. 
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Jul 28, 2008
>>Of course, they're filled with air/gas!<<
Incandescent lights have a filament in a near-vacuum, otherwise they'd burn out immediately.
However fluorescent lights do have an inert gas included that carries the current with a fluorescing agent attached to the glass to provide the light. As do low-energy bulbs...
MMF
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jul 28, 2008
No, the incandescent ones are also filled with inert gas - the point is to keep the oxygen out! If it were a vacuum, it would burn out more quickly because the tungsten wire would evaportate faster, on account of the vacuum sucking the molecules off.
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Researcher 815350 Posted Jul 28, 2008
I'd have expected incandescent bulbs to float, they do.
But I can now confirm low energy bulbs do not float. 
And I've just found some that are marked-up to last 10 years.
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Jul 28, 2008
My Physics 
Lied!!! 
You little 
at you!!
MMF
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Researcher 815350 Posted Jul 28, 2008
Ah but! They remain buoyant until the air escapes from the starter portion. Fluresent tubes might float. (I think they will, but I've not observed it 
)
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minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! Posted Jul 29, 2008
broke a flourescent tube once by hitting it weith a ball, gave me a real fright.
both incandescent and energy asving bulbs have their problems. we have a few energy saving bulbs here, they are more blue and take a while to warm up.
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taliesin Posted Jul 29, 2008
I installed Low Energy Lightbulbs.
Now I'm tired all the time 
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Researcher 815350 Posted Jul 29, 2008
Maybe you could do with 'full spectrum' lights?
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taliesin Posted Jul 29, 2008
No.
It was a joke.
'Low Energy' lightbulbs -- now I'm tired, because I have 'Low Energy' lightbulbs
Oh, nevermind.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jul 29, 2008
Someone needs a lightbulb transplant.
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Researcher 815350 Posted Jul 29, 2008
>>> It was a joke <<<
Can you give us more warning next time please. 
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- 62: Researcher 815350 (Jul 28, 2008)
- 63: KB (Jul 28, 2008)
- 64: swl (Jul 28, 2008)
- 65: Researcher 815350 (Jul 28, 2008)
- 66: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jul 28, 2008)
- 67: Researcher 815350 (Jul 28, 2008)
- 68: KB (Jul 28, 2008)
- 69: swl (Jul 28, 2008)
- 70: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Jul 28, 2008)
- 71: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jul 28, 2008)
- 72: Researcher 815350 (Jul 28, 2008)
- 73: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Jul 28, 2008)
- 74: Researcher 815350 (Jul 28, 2008)
- 75: minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! (Jul 29, 2008)
- 76: taliesin (Jul 29, 2008)
- 77: Researcher 815350 (Jul 29, 2008)
- 78: taliesin (Jul 29, 2008)
- 79: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jul 29, 2008)
- 80: Researcher 815350 (Jul 29, 2008)
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