I am willing to consider this and did see some people making points like this, which I was going to add to my comment above but... I admit I remain pretty skeptical.
One of the main reasons is because little LEDs are everywhere... like, I'm pretty sure those power buttons on computers or video game consoles from many decades ago were mini LEDs. The bigger LED bulbs I thought were just supposed to be like a collection of those such little bulbs. The tech has been here for a while, just not used in the same way.
I could see them however botching LED bulbs, much like EVs are botched today with spyware and other "undesirable features". Maybe the specific LED bulbs today contain spyware like some comments suggested, or are poorly designed in ways that hurt us.
My position is: I do think LED tech is probably viable in some form, as well as EVs. EVs have been around a century, they were just a "suppressed" technology for many years by the oil industry. Now we've got Elon coming in acting like a "conservative" to get "conservatives" interested in these botched Tesla EVs with the spyware and other constraints.
And I acknowledge there may be problems with lithium batteries and things like that but... again, it's really simple tech that's been around a long time, it's just any kind of battery that causes a motor to run with electricity.
Not complicated - a better more obvious use of EVs is ebikes - combining the efficiency of the bicycle design (one of the "best" inventions ever) with the automation of electricity and motors (and reducing the perhaps unsustainable lithium usage).
But anyway I will have to look in to the issue of LEDs more and will have to report back; I am very much open to changing my opinion.
But then also we might have to discuss downsides of incandescents, and are we really just straight up advocating for people to use fire or sunlight only as lighting at that point!? (There are some benefits from trying to live with the natural light of the sun only anyway which artificial bulbs have enabled people to get away from, a little too much)
Another anon shared this; take a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZInqDKVxb0
I am willing to consider this and did see some people making points like this, which I was going to add to my comment above but... I admit I remain pretty skeptical.
One of the main reasons is because little LEDs are everywhere... like, I'm pretty sure those power buttons on computers or video game consoles from many decades ago were mini LEDs. The bigger LED bulbs I thought were just supposed to be like a collection of those such little bulbs. The tech has been here for a while, just not used in the same way.
I could see them however botching LED bulbs, much like EVs are botched today with spyware and other "undesirable features". Maybe the specific LED bulbs today contain spyware like some comments suggested, or are poorly designed in ways that hurt us.
My position is: I do think LED tech is probably viable in some form, as well as EVs. EVs have been around a century, they were just a "suppressed" technology for many years by the oil industry. Now we've got Elon coming in acting like a "conservative" to get "conservatives" interested in these botched Tesla EVs with the spyware and other constraints.
And I acknowledge there may be problems with lithium batteries and things like that but... again, it's really simple tech that's been around a long time, it's just any kind of battery that causes a motor to run with electricity.
Not complicated - a better more obvious use of EVs is ebikes - combining the efficiency of the bicycle design (one of the "best" inventions ever) with the automation of electricity and motors (and reducing the perhaps unsustainable lithium usage).
But anyway I will have to look in to the issue of LEDs more and will have to report back; I am very much open to changing my opinion.
But then also we might have to discuss downsides of incandescents, and are we really just straight up advocating for people to use fire or sunlight only as lighting at that point!? (There are some benefits from trying to live with the natural light of the sun only anyway which artificial bulbs have enabled people to get away from, a little too much)