This suggests an obvious criticism: by providing the light-bulb figure, the researchers primed their subjects to underestimate energy consumption.
Am I the only one who has this strange resistance to light-bulb replacement?
She recommends upgrading from the exposed-light-bulb-and-chain look and installing a simple orb fixture.
Besides being tweakable to match the spectrum of a light-bulb, dye-based cells also work well in dim or diffuse light of the sort often found indoors.
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Similarly, Thomas Edison and his Muckers changed our world with the phonograph when he was just thirty years old, and the incandescent electric light-bulb at thirty-two.
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Authorities recovered Christmas-tree lights in one of the suspects' rooms, prompting investigators to see whether part of the initiator for the pipe bombs was light-bulb filaments, the FBI report said.
Wondering what to do, ferreting in his bag, he found a copy of the Declaration of Independence he had been given at the grocery store, and a light-bulb pinged on in his head.
Steven Burt, G24's chief financial officer, talks of light-bulb-powered TV remote controls, smoke detectors and computer keyboards. (A non-removable internal battery would store charge for use when the lights are off.) The company already offers prototypes of bags and jackets with photosensitive panels woven in, designed to charge digital cameras and mobile phones, and a hotel in Las Vegas is using G24's products to run its electric window-blinds.
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The 60W is the latest old-fashioned light bulb to be switched off in favour of the fluorescent lamps, energy-saving halogen bulbs and LED lights.
Partly because of their longevity -- no one wants to change a light bulb on the Moon -- but also their hardiness.
They can happen in the middle of the day, night, or even during a traffic jam, the "aha" or "light bulb" moments in our lives--those thoughts of clear brilliance where the proverbial light bulb appears over our head.
The best-known green-home technology must surely be the compact-fluorescent light bulb, the very icon of green living.
According to Ng the energy needed to power one A-frame is the equivalent of illuminating just one 60-watt light bulb.
In theory, a 7.5-watt TLED could generate as much light as a 100-watt incandescent bulb.
The bulb triumphed in the Bright Tomorrow competition run by the US Department of Energy that aimed to find an energy efficient alternative to the 60-watt incandescent light bulb.
Researchers at Wake Forest University recently developed a new type of light bulb that uses field-induced polymer electroluminescent technology to create a soft white, full spectrum light that could last a decade.
Made by Dutch electronics giant Philips, the bulb swaps filaments for light-emitting diodes to provide illumination.
The company made some mis-steps en route to its technological triumph last week, but Edison made literally thousands of mis-steps in developing the incandescent light bulb, and in the end the venture was so successful it was declaring a new dividend every Saturday evening.
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Whether it's just one t-shirt at a time, one light bulb at a time, one relabeled food out at a time, we'll begin to see a real cultural shift on the issue.
As we have said, he introduced to the world the light bulb, the phonograph, and the X-ray.
After I explained what we were doing, it was like a light bulb went on and we had an ah-ha moment on our hands.
The police detectives weary old Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and brash young Mills (Brad Pitt) search for clues by flashlight, at crime scenes where, typically, the only other source of light is a lamp with a twenty-five-watt bulb.
Our eyes prefer full-spectrum analog light: what you get from a light bulb, a fireplace, or the sun.
The one-room building contained a table with a porcelain top and a hide-bottomed chair, both sitting under an unfrosted light bulb hanging from the ceiling on a long cord, and Obie went in and scraped dust and fallen dirt-dauber nests off the table with the side of his hand.
We moved on to one of 1964's big toys: the Easy-Bake Oven, a working oven that used a light bulb to cook treats.
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Since one of the diamond's selling points was its ability to change hues from cotton-candy pink to fuchsia under fluorescent light, a bulb was positioned over its case to flicker on and off.
Norman Mailer too is on there, even though he brings in a half-hooker doll who dismantles the bulb because there is too much light on their table, which Elaine is not having because these are her five-dollar fixtures from way back, and she tells her to get her ass out and never again to screw around with her light bulbs, which she never does.
When in 1883 Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrayed for a fancy-dress ball as Electric Light, topped off her satin and diamonds with a large incandescent bulb, it subtracted nothing from the elegance of the scheme.
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