Assignment 11

Question 1:
What is the butterfly effect? According to Wikipedia it is "is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. It is a common subject in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes." In planner terms it means that tiny changes in complex systems leads to results that are impossible to predict. So what does that have to do with light bulbs? Well, a tiny change would be to change out all the incandescent light bulbs and replace them with compacted fluorescent light bulbs. All that was predicted was that it might save on someones energy bill. Now it is know that they will last 5 times longer than conventional bulbs. Save $30 in energy costs per bulb and help save the planet.

Question 2:
What is existentialism angst? According to Wikipedia it is "is a term that has been applied to the work of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences." So what does this have to do with light bulbs and more energy efficient homes and buildings. The only thing that I can think of is where will lighting be in the future? We already know that a lot of people are changing to compacted fluorescent light bulbs, because it will be cheaper in your pocket. What does this do for the future maybe we can use this extra money to stimulate the economy!!!!!! Also, they are already looking a head of compacted fluorescent and moving LED lighting. Which LED will last longer in homes and cost much more less in the energy bill part. YAYAYAY more money to stimulate the economy :)

Question 3:
Here is the part that I have added to my final project:

Thinking of specific lighting technologies there are a lot. They include Incandescent Lights, Compact Fluorescents, LED Lights, Night Vision Technology. Changing theses will improve energy efficient and put money back into our pockets.
Incandescent lights are what we are using right now. They work just fine except why not try and make the light bulbs last long, use less energy, and become more compact. Here is a picture of the following incandescent light bulb,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb (PICTURE)

The next step up from incandescent lights are compact fluorescents. According to Wikipedia compact fluorescents are “also known as a compact fluorescent light or energy saving light (or less commonly as a compact fluorescent tube [CFT]), is a type of fluorescent lamp. Many CFLs are designed to replace an incandescent lamp and can fit into most existing light fixtures formerly used for incandescent.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp (PICTURE)

The next step will be to convert everyone to LED lighting. LED lighting will be longer lasting, brighter, and save us more money. The LED light might cost more up front, but in the long run it will end up saving customers money. LED will be brighter at first, but over time they will dim out. The only thing to think about is in house’s these days you have the dimmer on lights. How do you think that will turn out? (still need info).

Now that we have thought of these types of light what about night vision? If we had night vision there would be no need for lighting in houses. I mean we have night vision goggles, but what if we all had night vision imbedded in us? When doing research about this topic I didn’t find much besides that BMW is now having night vision in the vehicles and they can detect people that are walking on the side of the road that don’t have any type of safety measures with them. They run a video and the site is: http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/2009/01/09/ces09-flir-introduces-pedestrian-detection-into-auto-night-vision-product/3973 . Just think how it would be if we were designed this way……


Tara