I received complimentary a 20-watt bulb, with the guarantee of 10,000 hours of operation. On the box it says: "Eat Smart". There is also written: "Initiative of Enel Distribuzione, funded through government incentives (DM 20 July 2004 and subsequent amendments). So
: the bulb that I apparently received a tribute from Enel, I actually bought it (the State has done, with my own money, giving them to Enel).
The packaging is also written that the bulb produces the same intensity of light from a normal 100 watt bulb. Doing a simple account
, 20 watts per 10,000 hours of operation are 200,000 Wh (watt-hours), corresponding to 200 kWh (kilowatt hours) of energy that the bulb would consume in its lifetime.
10,000 hours of life are estimated, on the packaging of the bulb, three hours a day for about 10 years.
At home I have 20 60-watt bulbs, however, are the same ones that took me 12 years ago. Thus, the life of the bulbs seem to be more than 10 years. I now
the hypothesis that during a week in winter they may remain switched on during the 4 lamps (thus corresponding to a total of 240 watts) for 5 hours a day in 5 working days (ie 25 hours in 5 days) and 10 hours a day on weekends, ie for two days (20 hours, figuring to spend the weekend at home). It follows, then, that four bulbs (Which are 240 Watt) remain on for 45 hours per week, which means 1170 hours in six months (26 weeks), during the winter months. I suggest that in the six summer months, they remain on for half the time: 585 hours. In one year, therefore, consume 240 watts for 1755 hours: 421,200 are Wh (watt-hours), which approximates to 420 kWh (kilowatt hours). Rubbing
this result on my 20 bulbs, I get that in a year each would consume 21,000 watt hours (kWh or 21, you get by 420,000 divided by 20) and being 60-watt bulbs, each of them would remain on for 350 hours. Would reach 10,000 hours of power in about 10 years, even as estimated by Enel.
If my 20-watt light bulbs were all rather than 60 Watt, consume one third of what they actually use. So, if every 60-watt bulb consumes 21 kWh per year, ie 210 kWh in 10 years, using 20W bulbs they would consume in ten years, I would save 70 kWh and 140 kWh of electricity.
to buy 20 60-watt bulb, currently spend about 40 euro, up from 160 € to spend on those with low consumption. If the latter, however, they cost 4 times more than normal, I suppose that to produce them is necessary to consume 4 times the energy that is consumed to produce light bulbs.
Expressing the result to the inequality:
4E + 70 kWh kWh kWh ≤ 210 kWh + E
becomes:
3E kWh ≤ 140 kWh which
:
E ≤ 47 kWh to produce
means that if a regular bulb will spend less than 47 kWh, it is convenient to replace the bulbs with energy-efficient ones (whose production would require 188 kWh), otherwise it should .
How much energy is consumed to produce a normal light bulb or an energy saving light bulbs? It would be interesting to find out ...
Five Nigerian girl "Unjustly" accused. We a funny news I learned today from a local newspaper. It may be that the news does not reflect exactly what happened, as it is reported, however, the case is to be a great laugh (laughing is always good because it brings more oxygen to the blood); at the end of the laugh, though, would it be to make a reflection.
Five Nigerians have convinced a couple of entrepreneurs in the mythical north-east to be able to multiply the 50 notes, 100 and 500 €, using an oil produced by a magical wizard lived in France. Now, the five are wanted for fraud or something.
Scam? Where is the scam?
If those nice young men will be convicted, I hope you are all those parents who tell their children that Santa Claus exists.
How do you believe that you can multiply your money?
I condemn these two entrepreneurs: first, take away their right to "entrepreneurs" (a child who believes in Santa Claus, the entrepreneur can not do, she can be an entrepreneur who believes that money can be multiplied, what's the magic) and then forces them to attend a course, with strict final exam on how to produce the money the Mint.
In the end, take all under the rule (I say this as a citizen that pays taxes), the two contractors would work them to the mint (shipyards, however, if it were demonstrated their bad faith), while the five pranksters Nigerian them would use to hunt down tax evaders or those who are "strangers" to the tax or "disappeared" from it.
all depends on exactly how things are and what tools they have in hand the law judges to deal with it.
racist or unreasonable? Talking to different people, it is easy to see that for many the disappointment of observing misconduct, dishonest or even criminal from non-EU citizens face in their rise to a feeling of real racism.
The fateful phrase you hear to pronounce is as follows: "In the face of certain behaviors, how can you not be racist?"
And the answer, when it is confirmed, and the like, "But even among them there is good people ...".
What leaves me baffled and, ultimately, disgusts me, is just the kind of logic used.
Considering, in fact, that a presence so notable of immigrants in Italy is a phenomenon that affects us from just a decade (at least in areas where I live), if I use the same reasoning applied to my previous experiences, I would hate for the same principle, all Italian, from members of my family.
This is paradoxical. We are therefore, in my view, unreasonable.
In the end, we are not able to distinguish good from evil, but only white from black.
We are not able to realize that someone cares about every day to build his fortune on our ruin: the politicians, banks, insurance companies, the "social climbers". All of these people, thanks to us (which we intent to build reasoning completely useless as what I mentioned above) get our approval and our admiration or our indifference or our liabilities.
When a plant closes ... When a plant closes, hundreds or even thousands of workers find themselves directly in the street. How can the market absorb?
But this abstract and purely economic conception of " focus ", it's so good? I
is this idea, having read a letter today in the Messaggero Veneto, Pordenone, a worker outraged by the false promises that are made to workers and the illusions that arise from these.
The problem, in my opinion, is the basis: we live, in fact, in a society where some people live and depend on others we do not want to call slavery persist in this condition, we invoke the existence of national contracts and unions that protect workers. When the factories close, however, there is a force that is superior to all others: one in which employees have to go home.
For this reason, it would not hurt the idea that all contractors or freelancers the only way there could be a real agreement between the parties concerned.
In Italy, However, where nothing works and where all are "smart" would surely make a way to "sign" in Italy, there is no loyalty.
The tendency is always to "concentrate" form of "group", where the head is the holder of interests in the queue all those hoping to gain some advantage.
The money is time ... "Time is money, can still be heard to say.
is strong, ie, a sort of obligation to turn time into money, that is, to use the time to make money. No matter how. On the other hand, after the first illusion, in a time when there was money for everyone, now the money is less and less and barely used to live. We are forced to tighten their belts (if we did not sell due).
Trivia. Speeches everyday.
But someone has tried to do all?
How much do we really need to live? And what, above all, do we need?
The main costs that we must support not just to food, and for consumers: electricity, gas, telephone. Now, in reality, even the cost of food is reaching levels that compete with those bills.
We need, therefore, the money to convert it back in time, that is to get what we need not spend time and money.
For example, spending more time outside the home, perhaps to run the vehicle trips slower, such as cycling, consume less, in terms of electricity and gas. In addition, we move, breathe fresh air, spend little on maintenance of the bicycle. It 's inevitable, then, standing among the people, socialize. If we have downtime, we can make use of public spaces such as libraries, where we also read the newspapers and make a culture (other than, perhaps, by those magazines that continue to call "news").
Once home, we could do without a television ("Year Zero" you could follow the bar, in the company, as they did once with "political forum") and use the time to tell us what we did during the day. If we are alone, we could cultivate the art of "DIY" (sewing, repairs, build something useful, as well as funny), come to make us sleep ...
there are ideas that I throw, I try every day to achieve the same.
ideas that I want to make a precise calculation. But before you do the math, you need to collect data ...
Start with a couple of suggestions. 1.
I stopped for some years, to use the phone.
I have gained in health.
I'm not saying that cell phones are not useful: sometimes, they are indispensable.
To me, however, does little.
Does anyone know what you recommend for a good phone service, cost-effective appropriate for what it offers, which also allows me to disengage from Telecom?
2.
I started some months, to use the bicycle, not for sport, but simply to move.
so I built up a further gain in health. Where
not arrive (in time) with the bike (when the distances exceeding 20 km), I try to use public transport. The result: a real problem! I often have to fall back on the car, because times are calibrated on the transport of workers and students.
also risk their lives every day. I propose, in this regard, to petition to be sent to the President of the Republic, so I decorated as "hero of the Fatherland" and, together to me, all those who daily bicycle. In the meantime, I just ride closer to the center of the roadway to the edge, although the Code requires to keep the right.
Conclusions
Those who complain of paying so many taxes, congratulino for the contribution they give to their reduction (the cost of health care, for me, I'm definitely dropped).
Shares policies advocated
The telephone network must be public, there must be no bicycle lanes on every street (even outside the city) and we must be more public transportation and fewer cars in circulation. Bicycle lanes are to be planted with deciduous trees (to have the sun in winter and cool in summer) and must be equipped with small service areas.
