Doly wrote:Maybe I'm missing something here, but doesn't the oil for lamps come as well from... well, oil? Why do you expect to be able to use oil lamps but not electricity?
PlannerBee wrote:NeoPeasant wrote:PlannerBee wrote:What kind of lighting is best inside a home that does not run on electricity. I am particularly interested in the kerosene types but am wondering if certain types use less kerosene that others, are some better shielded from the wind if you needed to go outside with it, etc. Pros and cons. Ideas and links for buying them?
How about wind up lighting other than a flashlight?
You're kidding, right? Any REAL peak oiler knows we will simply all have to go to bed when the sun goes down and arise with the dawn.
You are part of the problem you know that? I know we have a true oil crisis but not one of us really knows how bad it will be starting when. It could just dwindle off and in that case I might like to have a little lighting or NEED it. If you don't have any good ideas then shut up!
NeoPeasant wrote:Wow! A mere 35 years after we landed on the moon and already we have developed the advanced technology needed to use light from the sun in daytime!
It was only ridiculously cheap energy for the last 100 years that allowed us to rely almost exclusively on artificial light to light our buildings in the middle of the day.
This is a good idea - 20% of electricity use in the US is used in lighting, mainly incandescent bulbs. A more achievable action would be to ban the manufacture and sale of incandescents in favour of compact fluorescents using a third the power - there's a 10% electricity demand reduction - about the same as all the US nuclear power plants and it could be achieved within three years.BitterSweetCrude wrote:Yeah these will replace my gasoline burning lights I have in my house.
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