Re: EBtter light bulbs wit hcarbon nanotubes, and perhaps carboin nanaotube resistors?

From: Jan Panteltje (pNaonStpealmtje_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 21:07:55 GMT

On a sunny day (Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:58:16 GMT) it happened Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in
<In5wc.5499$CL3.2025@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>:

>Hi Jan,
>
>It's not one country alone but according to the article it was a
>cooperation between Tsinghua and Louisiana State. The scientist in the
>US has a Chinese name and probably is from there but that is something
>very normal here in the US.
>
>Thanks for posting. It's interesting that something as mundane as the
>light bulb is re-invented. Maybe one day we'll see bulbs that are more
>efficient but not as terribly expensive as the fluorescent replacements.
>Those save electricity but not money.
>
>Regards, Joerg

Well, I have this theory (hehe), and it is that those chips in the electronic
savings lightbulbs (dunno english word, but there is a little rectifier,
some kHz oscillator, sepp, a coil and a cap in there, to light the
fluorescent), are fixed so they go exactly after say 10000 (or whatever)
hours.
So, they keep selling bulbs you see.
So even if this nano nano filament thing works, they will fix it so it only
lasts a couple of thousand hours.
More interesting is that it has same resistance cold and warm, so no inrush
current!
Just like Edisons old carbon filament !
JP

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