NEED A NEW "LIGHT".... :+}

[kmmcrafts]

We have a college campus that has solar panels over a large parking lot instead of like carports they built a solar farm parking lot.. My wife said why don't they cover parking lots and stores etc with those panels instead of buying all the farmland up. I often wondered what the safety would be for those in parking lots etc like this.. Not only human safety but what effect if any on the cars electronics too.. 

[Rolf]

I use a Led light ring with a 5 diopter,  I wear progressive glasses so that works perfectly for me. The magnification is perfect for me. But have a look at the focal length and Magnification number  and decide which is best for you. 

[Norm Fengstad]

I have bought a sewing machine light for 25 bucks on Amazon mounted it with a magnet coin like it better then those big goose neck things

[rjweb]

Talk about solar farms, here in Texas about 40 % of the people have solar panels on their roofs for their electric, RJ

[OCtoolguy]

As to the environmental/ecological aspect, remember that EVERYTHING is either grown or mined from the earth. No getting around that.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

1 hour ago, OCtoolguy said:

As to the environmental/ecological aspect, remember that EVERYTHING is either grown or mined from the earth. No getting around that.

But you have to remember what the whole idea behind this green technology is. Save the planet from ourselves. Are we actually doing that? 

[OCtoolguy]

22 minutes ago, JTTHECLOCKMAN said:

But you have to remember what the whole idea behind this green technology is. Save the planet from ourselves. Are we actually doing that? 

After everything the Earth has been through over the millennia, I think it will do just fine. At the worst, it will be The Earth and plastic bags. LOL. Thanks George Carlin.

[Wichman]

1 hour ago, OCtoolguy said:

As to the environmental/ecological aspect, remember that EVERYTHING is either grown or mined from the earth. No getting around that.

I once made a knife out of a meteorite, does that still count? (I'm joking)

[preprius]

So I was curious about did LED  technology actually help save energy.

So I looked up CAISO California Independent organization.  I looked at energy used every year.  Notice 2011 thru 2014.  The line almost flattened out.  So that was just California.  

My opinion is it helped. 

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

33 minutes ago, preprius said:

So I was curious about did LED  technology actually help save energy.

So I looked up CAISO California Independent organization.  I looked at energy used every year.  Notice 2011 thru 2014.  The line almost flattened out.  So that was just California.  

My opinion is it helped. 

Led has definitely helped save energy on the back end. But did they factor in the making of the components. Changing filament and fluorescent lighting is much simpler than installation of solar panels and making of electric cars. No argument there that LED lighting saves energy. It also gives the user many more choices as to where to use and colors and things like that. Fixtures are so much more compact. This technology is still changing though. Went from the curly bulbs to the almost same configuration bulbs as we all grew to know. You see now alot of the what is basically called Jacob Ladder light bulbs or science fiction looking bulbs with the gold filaments. But  there are so many other designs too. Compact electronics will continue to save energy. We see it in many things. Nano technology is the future as well as the present. 

[rjweb]

How about with cordless tools, takes energy to charge a battery, which use less energy, charging or using a corded tool, RJ

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

11 minutes ago, rjweb said:

How about with cordless tools, takes energy to charge a battery, which use less energy, charging or using a corded tool, RJ

Just another example of technology that is intended for convivence and more ease of use. But it too has created problems which is in the battery end as far as disposal and wearing down. Yes recharging has its place in total power consumption numbers

[Wichman]

1 hour ago, rjweb said:

How about with cordless tools, takes energy to charge a battery, which use less energy, charging or using a corded tool, RJ

In the early days of cordless tools it was pretty simple, now, not so much.

In a shop corded rules.

If you're working a job site without power (yet) then the cordless is pretty much the option (generators bring their own set of issues).

If you have integrated your cordless tools with your emergency preparedness plan, then it gets even more complicated. The accessories available now that use cordless tool batteries for emergencies are many and varied; radios, USB power ports, 110 inverters, flashlights, etc. The one I want isn't available, yet; a plug and play 6 port charger with integrated inverter to charge the batteries and in the even of a power outage, switch off the line power and switch on the inverter. I have a small Universal Power Source that does just that, I use it to keep my Internet router and modem powered during power outages. I only want enough power to keep my (gas) furnace running during winter blackouts.