The real reason is the cri of leds ran that way is absolutely awful. Dubai bulbs make everyone look near death, and makes food look disgusting. Living under low cri lighting is mentally harmful over time, I know from experience.
Fluorescent tubes are hated by everyone because of the awful green tinge they have. And the LEDs that have a CRI of only 80 or so are the shitty dollar store ones that also flicker and give people headaches, and as such are also hated. The standard for cheap leds people will tolerate is more like 90-95. The name brand cheap bulbs are around 98.
Number one easiest way to make a space feel less shitty and claustrophobic is to replace the contractor special lights with name brand ones. Everything feels cleaner even, just doing that.
Just did some googling, this is a very recent development. As in, in the last year or two the CRI of lightbulbs rose a ton. It looks like this is due to some California regulation requiring 90+ CRI lightbulbs.
You didn't completely miss out. CRI is a measure that's easy to cheat, as it was designed not as a consumer standard, but an industrial one. A lot of these new high CRI bulbs aren't actually as good as their rating suggests. So that's a whole rabbit hole to go down.
we’ll all get super ripped legs from hours on our exercise bikes retrofitted to generate electricity so we can charge our phones long enough to keep using them through the evening
Biking for an hour only runs a lightbulb for a few seconds. Human manual labor will never generate significant electricity.
yea, but the best LED bulbs are something like 4x more efficient.
So biking for an hour runs a LED lightbulb for 10 minutes maybe? I don't remember the exact figures but it's ridiculously impractical
a fully distributed generation system comprising manual labor, geothermal, hydro, and some form of energy storage
it's also impossible to make a system that takes advantage of the type of post-collapse labor you'd be doing. People won't be riding exercise bikes when you're trying to survive off potatoes and milk
Human muscle as an energy source has always been a terribly inefficient prospect. That's why we literally started moving away from it in 7000 BCE.
Gravitational potential energy will probably be our best bet for energy storage, but we will be using appropriate-tech solar and biomass and wind and hydro (probably in that order) to charge it.
Further reading:
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/05/could-we-run-modern-society-on-human-power-alone.html
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The real reason is the cri of leds ran that way is absolutely awful. Dubai bulbs make everyone look near death, and makes food look disgusting. Living under low cri lighting is mentally harmful over time, I know from experience.
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Fluorescent tubes are hated by everyone because of the awful green tinge they have. And the LEDs that have a CRI of only 80 or so are the shitty dollar store ones that also flicker and give people headaches, and as such are also hated. The standard for cheap leds people will tolerate is more like 90-95. The name brand cheap bulbs are around 98.
Number one easiest way to make a space feel less shitty and claustrophobic is to replace the contractor special lights with name brand ones. Everything feels cleaner even, just doing that.
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Just did some googling, this is a very recent development. As in, in the last year or two the CRI of lightbulbs rose a ton. It looks like this is due to some California regulation requiring 90+ CRI lightbulbs.
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You didn't completely miss out. CRI is a measure that's easy to cheat, as it was designed not as a consumer standard, but an industrial one. A lot of these new high CRI bulbs aren't actually as good as their rating suggests. So that's a whole rabbit hole to go down.
Why wouldn't we just use windmills to hoist the stuff for us when it's windy
Biking for an hour only runs a lightbulb for a few seconds. Human manual labor will never generate significant electricity.
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yea, but the best LED bulbs are something like 4x more efficient.
So biking for an hour runs a LED lightbulb for 10 minutes maybe? I don't remember the exact figures but it's ridiculously impractical
it's also impossible to make a system that takes advantage of the type of post-collapse labor you'd be doing. People won't be riding exercise bikes when you're trying to survive off potatoes and milk
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Human muscle as an energy source has always been a terribly inefficient prospect. That's why we literally started moving away from it in 7000 BCE.
Gravitational potential energy will probably be our best bet for energy storage, but we will be using appropriate-tech solar and biomass and wind and hydro (probably in that order) to charge it.
Further reading: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/05/could-we-run-modern-society-on-human-power-alone.html
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Have you ever used one of those hand-powered crank flashlights?
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From my experience, I'm pretty sure no one uses the hand-powered ones more than once or twice before getting sick of them.