I was doing volunteer work today and seen a woman that purchased 3 oil type lamps. Her hands were full so I held the door for her as she left. I hope she is collecting them and not using them as you could solar recharge some Eneloops and run them in LED lanterns and have zero cost lighting that isn’t a fire hazard.
Yep, the oil lamps stink and run out of fuel.
Sorry but, what do you give a shit what she is using them for? It’s still a free country isn’t it?
Has the LED community put itself so high up on a pedestal that we think we can talk down other peoples decisions?
Go stick your nose back into your own business and leave it there.
I’m old. Oil lamp lady sounds kinda like my kind of gal…
There are certain aspects of an oil lamp that no LED would ever be able to replicate.
I have a few oil lamps out in the barn. They are quite pleasant to use.
I have several oil lamps. Yes I am well aware of their issues - smell, fuel, fire hazards, abysmal thermal efficiency. Use them occasionally for short periods when the mood strikes and I’ve also used them for at least one night time extended power outage.
I hope not. There are surely arguments to be made about practicality, but personal preference is what it is.
I absolutely agree with toddcshoe. Keep your nose out of other people's business.
I have a ton of oil lamps. Why do you care what somebody else likes?
I have a wood fired cook stove in my shop. You gonna complain because I don’t use electricity to heat and cook with in there? I’m an electrican and I use gas to heat my home.
LEDs are woke now?
Ruh roh…
In a barn or ice shack or such, they can be charming but in a nice house that smells good, I prefer something else.
The OP didn’t get into anyone’s business, she brought this lighting purchase she observed to a flashlight/LED forum as a topic for conversation and opinions, and preferences.
The nastiness and anger is bizarre.
You can prefer whatever you like. For yall to push your preferences on others, is a different matter.
This matter should have never been brought up and as such, I should have never commented. For that I don’t really apologize. I just back away.
There is no nastiness or anger here. It just aggravates me anytime someone wants to get into someone else business. If I had seen something that I didn’t agree with I wouldn’t post it on my favorite forum. For someone to do so is a !@#$ move. That and the first sentence being you were volunteering had absolutely nothing to do with what you observed. With that I will not say another word.
All the OP did was watch a woman walk out with the lamps, she never spoke to her or pushed any preferences on the woman.
No, she judged the woman as she held the door for her. While she was volunteering. And then posted it.
It kind of did sound just a slightly tiny bit of ‘oil lamp shaming’ and “green” energy virtue signalling, though.
Probably not intentionally.
I put “green” in scare quotes because beyond the surface you’ll find a room with several elephants and all kinds of stuff brushed under the carpet…
And so unfortunately these days, generally speaking, there are roughly 2 main groups of people.
Those who go along with ‘the narrative’ and those who can’t any longer, and both sides are easily triggered by what the other side thinks and says.
Meanwhile things to disagree about grow in number…
Crazy times we live in.
Yep, posted it on a flashlight/LED/lantern forum for discussion, opinions, and preferences about lighting choices in a blackout.
Depends on how long the black out will last and how large the blacked out area is.
The worse the doom scenario is, the better low tech solutions will be.
My low-tech solution is eneloops and backpacker solar chargers, and various forms of yard solar lights that will run off of and charge eneloops, not to mention using them in the house and being able to charge them from a large southern window.
I do have rechargeable D cells for lanterns and adapters to use the solar-charged AA eneloops in those lanterns, if the blackout went on for a long time.