Posted on 09/22/2010 6:52:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Use 30% of the energy (to run) ... use 3000% of the energy to produce, last half as long (I know I went through an ENTIRE CASE of these stupid things already)
and they contain MERCURY
how long before we hear the stories of those EVIIIIIIIIL corporations trying to poison us with mercury?
Too much info there.
Simple rule:
If a liberal recommends it, it’s a scientific and economic disaster.
It’s a simple rule because liberals are simple people.
Very simple.
Foreseeing this idiocy, I have been hoarding the old-fashioned light bulbs—mainly because I detest those horrid-looking, wormy new spiral ones. Another reason is because if the geniuses say I shouldn’t use them anymore, it’s all the more certain I’ll use them until not another single one is available!
I know people who are buying the old light bulbs dozens at a time and hoarding them.
I hate CFL’s.
My son and his wife used in their home and they actually burned. The bottom of the bulb got black and smelly.
CFLs produce RF interference that degrades AM and short wave radio reception.
Thanks for posting this. A few more facts to understand why I am against CFLs have been added to the list to be sent to my friends.
I hate governments, all types, but I hate small Republican democracies the least of all governments. We need to get back to it, in order that our children and grandchildren don't become slaves to the communist who aspire to be our masters.
For every “problem” these Einsteins “solve,” they create fifty more. How long will it be when someone gets a few laughs by smashing a bunch of them and then calling the HAZMAT folks?
One thing you can be assured of when a liberal recommends ANY idea -
he hasn’t thought about it beyond the point of
“I feel superior for holding this position on this issue.”
....but are loaded with mercury. Get read for the land fills to become so poisoned, nothing will ever clean them up. In order to get as much light as we used to, we'd have to use two or three of these nasty things.
If these weenies think I'm going to go out of my way to recycle these things, they'd better think again. It wasn't my idea to use them, so let them clean them up.
To maximize your “hoarding dollars” -
buy only 100 watt bulbs for now.
There is a “phase out” period, starting in 2012, and starting with the 100 watt bulbs, then working its way down to lower wattage bulbs.
(1) About 99% of the energy advantage available from fluorescent lighting was achieved in the past as all large buildings and systems (factories, stores, schools, ....) were converted by 1952. Household lighting use isn't big enough to worry about.
(2) The Avant Garde are already converting the far more efficient, cooler and better looking LED systems.
(3) China itself, the major manufacturer of CFLs, is leaping ahead to LED systems ~ where we, the USA, have all the patents and manufacturing capacity.
There are no other meaningful points to be made. If you want to keep futzing around with incandescents, go to it. I don't care.
CFLs produce RF interference that degrades AM and short wave radio reception.
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And audible noise!
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