Phillips make bulbs in Dubai that give approximately twice the lumens/watt, and last an order of magnitude longer, at marginal difference in production cost. The super high-tech clever secret? Just put twice as many LEDs in them. Strangely enough, Phillips don't produce these bulbs anywhere else in the world, I wonder why?
They are designed to be the most efficient available, matching high lumen output with very long life
In return for the development Philips gained exclusive rights to manufacture the lamps for a fixed duration, extending from their announcement in 2016. Philips expect to have supplied 10 million of the lamps by the end of 2021
These lamps are currently only available in Dubai. The likelihood of them appearing elsewhere is limited by the fact that they are designed to last a long time, which isn't profitable for the manufacturers.
I'unno I know this shit is happening in all areas all the time because capitalism but the blatant examples like this are really stupid and upsetting.
An aside, but I always felt the goal of the "degrowth" movement was to get rid of completely wasteful shit like this. Rather than the bad faith interpretation that it's just "austerity by another name". Like if Davos summit or Trudeau pitched something similar sounding, I'd assume it's just more austerity, but it's not like capitalism isn't filled with a milliom little "inventions" which fuel growth and waste but don't improve our lives necessarily.
Usually when most people outside of the small niche of leftists talk about degrowth, they mean green austerity and deindustrializing. Which will be the end of any communist movement.
You're saying this as if liberal/centrist degrowthers aren't themselves a tiny niche.
Well the mindset is widespread, the people would not label themselves as degrowthers but they are ideological similar to them. For example the “The Earth is sick, with Humanity” BS Facebook iamsodeep thing
They just tend to be in positions of authority and/or the loudest about it. :pain: