An energy efficient hack - literally
Remember how pleased I was to find those energy efficient GU10s?
Guess what - they didn’t fit my light-fittings. Why make energy efficient bulbs with a different profile to the standard ones? These fancy - and very expensive - new GU10s flare out faster, so that they are fatter nearer the base … and don’t fit any of the lights using GU10s in my house.
So. My father visited, and noticed these sitting on the side. Like me, very excited to see energy efficient versions. “Have them” I said “Useless to me - they don’t fit”.
Guess what again - they didn’t fit his light fittings either. But, not one to be defeated, he took a hacksaw and caused the light fittings to fit the bulbs.
How difficult can it get to fit an energy efficient bulb? How far will you go?
Seth Godin has a post discussing the slow take-up of energy efficient lightbulbs. This is one unnecessary reason why it is so slow - bad design.
January 8th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
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January 9th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Screw in a Lightbulb…
The adoption of technology typically follows an S-curve. POSIWID invites us to think about the “purpose” of this S-curve. Merely exhorting people to adopt a new product is not going to make any fundamental change….
January 9th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
You are right - simply saying ‘do X’ won’t make people do it. But making them aware of the benefits of X - and receiving the feedback that describes the issues that people face in ‘doing X’ is surely all part of the build-improve process?
And the more discussion there is in the marketplace, the faster we’ll move through the curve to main-stream adoption, no? Or have I misunderstood?