Richard Lindzen
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Podcast Appearances
They said, wasn't that a great thing?
I said, that's the stupidest thing I've heard today.
What's the point?
Because at the time, what was replacing it?
Compact fluorescents, which were awful.
All they had to do was wait and do nothing and LEDs would come along and people would say, okay, I prefer that.
Instead, they feel they have to do something.
They were simply less efficient than, you know, in terms of the number of watts of heat they generate versus light.
I mean, LEDs are phenomenal that way.
They're the best.
Yeah, I think...
There's an old cliche, money is the root of all evil.
You mentioned a tough thing there, the business trust science.
It's not a great idea because science is not a source of authority.
It's a methodology.
It's based on challenge.
Right.
the success of science.