Walmart, Target and all the other department stores love this idea.

Its not illegal as long as you mention "Hey, my car has video cameras in it." before you hand them the keys.

Whats illegal is taping them without their knowledge. They could potentially make a call to their lawyer or doctor after they park it and you could unintentionally record privileged information. At some point such systems will be so common you wont have to mention it anymore.

No, its not the electrodes. It's the ballast/transformer that gets too hot and fries them. The failed electrodes are a symptom, not the cause.

You can buy them at Home Deport right now. If you're in an office building, look up... there are probably a few over your head. And yes, they do make ones without the ballasts that are small and round like CFLs are.

BUT... you can get CFLs that don't have the transformer/ballast built in.

Here's what a ballast looks like:
https://www.google.com/search?...

The problem is, we are trying to adapt CFLs to Incandescent sockets. Buy new lamps and you wont have this problem anymore. The CFLs you're getting have about the cheapest ballasts that can be made in them and the airflow through them is awful. In an ideal setup you'd have these ballasts elsewhere... where they can remain cool. Each ballast would run multiple bulbs for years without issue.

Take a ballast, shrink it down small enough to fit into an incandescent base and seal it in plastic? Yea... not going to last very long.

the CFL/LEDs last forever... but most don't operate off of 120/240 volts. So there are transformers in the base that ramp the voltage up. The transformers do NOT last 50k hours. That's what burns out.

Its not. (well it could be but the story is possible)

I've dealt extensively with the forest service and the DNR legally. My family does cranberry farming which involves wetlands. They've been a thorn in our side for over 30 years. Throwing a rock into a wetland is illegal. They can take your car and equipment for it to. We had a dike collapse during a heavy rain storm so we re-built it. They took us to court and complained that by rebuilding the dike we'd filled in a wetland. We won in the end thanks to Google maps. Another time they sent a squad of armed guys onto the land because we were having an "uncontrolled burn" and fined us. We went to court over it, and won because the burn was on an ISLAND. That's right, surrounded on all sides by a lake. The island was only about 100ft across with no structures on it. The judge asked how 100ftsq piece of grass in the middle of lake could be uncontrolled. They said we didnt have any way to put out spot fires or some nonsense. Then we pointed out that the purpose of the island was it was where our well/pump was and there was a 20k gallon per hour diesel pump in the photos they'd provided the judge!

They've sued us/taken us to court dozens of times over the years. It's probably cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars by now and they've never won. Not once.

In my job, I work heavily, all day long with large marketing, sales and product management departments. The parallel universe those people live in is rather astonishing. If you diverge from their line of thinking even in internal meetings, you're getting talked to by management. It's to the point that I have meetings even with external engineers and we'll have both of our sales departments on the phone preventing us from solving problems because neither of us are allowed to admit there are problems. lol

What ends up happening is we find time to exchange email and later speak privately. I find it hilarious that engineers from two separate companies have to collude together to trick our respective Sales organizations into believing nothing was ever wrong in the first place.

Even the nausea I get every time I lift a Samsung product?

This is basically the kind of system I run. A different application, but I have the same problem.

The problem is you. You're describing it wrong. The Dashboard is the report. It's just a new kind of report.

Explain that emailed PDFs, spreadsheets on network drives, etc... are bad. If they give you a report to write and you do... it gets emailed to them and then they base decisions off that report. Now, a week later someone points out a flaw in the reporting. You had a bad join! Oh no! So you fix it. The data is instantly fixed in the "Dashboard" but the report they have in their email or network drive will be forever wrong.
Reports arent wrong, they're just better now.

If they need the raw data for a presentation or something, that's different. You should have an export feature. If not, that's another problem.

Because making solar panels is horrific for the environment.
http://www.scientificamerican....

yea no... Pot

You're clearly not a person that's been to a 3rd world country. I have been, and its a fuck of a lot more complicated than that.
How does someone who has no money, no home, and no familly grow food? At all? Why would the farmer down the road that has 2 acres and can barely grow enough to feed his family further impoverish himself by feeding that person? Now increase that farmers yield by 74%...

And you'll say... well we could just give them food! A noble idea... until you drive that farmer into bankruptcy because everyone now gets free food and is livelihood is worthless. Like I said, it's complicated. There is no easy solution that involves some big evil corporate overlord.

You dont understand nitrogen fixing bacteria....
The plants uptake is limited, and if you put too much in the soil it's actually poisonous to the plant and you get runoff. These sorts of bacteria help the plant uptake more than it would naturally.