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Oct
Published by MacDoctor on October 24th, 2009
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Heh. The editorial in the Herald today is Uptake of fluorescent bulbs salt in Labour’s wounds. The editor gleefully tells us that 80% of households now have at least one energy-efficient fluorescent lightbulb. Apparently there was no need for the ill-conceived ban on incandescent light-bulbs that Labour tried to perpetrate upon us right before the [...]
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Aug
Published by MacDoctor on August 15th, 2008
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Both Kiwiblog and Jafapete blog about the latest news about compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) – that they are potential fire hazards. I recall that Ian Wishart had a long article on this in the last Investigate magazine, which, I thought, was a curious mixture of scare-mongering and useful fact. The overly scary bit was mostly [...]