Golden Dragon Shining Posted October 17, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbbF3oxf-E A policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete, that is, unfashionable or no longer functional after a certain period of time. Almost all electrical and mechanical products are pre designed with limited lifespan so a continued demand & consumption is generated. Modern economy is designed with obsolescence in mind in a world of finite resources which causes great harm in short and long term. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Astral Monk Posted October 17, 2015 Terrible, terrible. One of the causes of the excessive and purposeless waste of our civilization. One might say that humans themselves are planned obsolescences, due to our gentic program of aging and dieing to be replaced by new and hardier if not more docile stock. 8) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Golden Dragon Shining Posted October 20, 2015 (edited) Terrible, terrible. One of the causes of the excessive and purposeless waste of our civilization. One might say that humans themselves are planned obsolescences, due to our gentic program of aging and dieing to be replaced by new and hardier if not more docile stock. 8) Yeh, it is insane. I wonder where we'd be now if the old school engineers had won. Overall I think planet and people would be in much better health. All that wasted energy in designing things to break... imagine that energy in continual innovation and excellence ha. They were making light bulbs that could last 100+ years...100+ years ago... ha. Edited October 20, 2015 by Sionnach Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted October 20, 2015 On the lighter side, we're entering the age of LEDs, these are lasting much longer (years longer) and only using a fraction of the power. So a 100 year old light bulb may be 60 watt, using 60 watt's of energy, a new one will only use 12 watts for the next 8 to 10 years. So there is a good side to progress, and even planned obsolescence if it drives true innovation in less energy and materials. Perhaps, at least with light bulbs, the country that innovates and develops medium lasting, high efficiency bulbs would eventually be ahead of the country who developed the 100 year bulb, maybe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soaring crane Posted October 20, 2015 On the lighter side, we're entering the age of LEDs, LED's are unfortunately built with a self-destruct circuit, for exactly the reason this thread was started. But the first Graphene light has been developed and once they take over the market, there's no telling where we'll go. Graphene is the game changer of the century, or the millenium. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/speaking-of-graphene-heres-a-graphene-light-bulb 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bearded Dragon Posted October 21, 2015 On the lighter side, we're entering the age of LEDs, these are lasting much longer (years longer) and only using a fraction of the power. So a 100 year old light bulb may be 60 watt, using 60 watt's of energy, a new one will only use 12 watts for the next 8 to 10 years. So there is a good side to progress, and even planned obsolescence if it drives true innovation in less energy and materials. Perhaps, at least with light bulbs, the country that innovates and develops medium lasting, high efficiency bulbs would eventually be ahead of the country who developed the 100 year bulb, maybe. It all goes hand in hand. The old light bulbs wasted so much energy generating heat, and as you may know anything that generates heat tends to not last forever. They do a good job though. My guess is that it was always more of a problem in colder weather when they heat up and cool down too quickly, then the next time they start up with a microfracture and boooom. It's all speculation. LEDs have good efficiency partially due to the fact that they don't generate much heat. That's always going to be a great benefit to it's life cycle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
