On: This Can’t Go On

[cratermoon]

What about the energy use in making LED bulbs vs incandescent?

[gspr → cratermoon]

Are you actually asking, or just attempting to muddy the waters?

[cratermoon → gspr]

IS GP actually saying making LED bulbs is overall lower entropy than making incandescent, or is he throwing shade?

[neltnerb → cratermoon]

I mean, the answer is that the LED bulbs have a lower environmental impact than CFLs or Incandescents.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/study-environmental-ben...

I think this is easy enough to find though... maybe they just don't know how to find this stuff.

[cratermoon → neltnerb]

LED bulbs are a relatively recent invention, thus their manufacture, at industrial scales, was built on developments in manufacturing engineering that didn't exist when the incandescent bulb was developed. So here's a question for you: if we went back and re-tooled incandescent assembly lines for modern processes, would LEDs still beat them?