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?
My son and his wife used in their home and they actually burned. The bottom of the bulb got black and smelly.
I started replacing all my incandescents 10(?) years ago as the incans burned out. Where I live the power is unreliable and is out several times a week for a nanosecond to a few minutes as transformers on power poles blow and the voltage varies a bit constantly. The incans were lasting from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. Since I started the replacement I have replaced one(1) CFL. I have no problems with them in cold weather (It seldom gets below 40F here) and they seem as bright as the incans they replace. They mostly take a second or less to come all the way on. I have a stash of incans because there are, indeed, some applications where they are better and because the government outlawed them.
That won’t happen because they aren’t any good and will never really catch on. I have to say that I’ve gotten used to them in my living room, and no longer feel like I’m in a supermarket at 3:00 in the morning, but they are still way too blue. Soon I’m going to put happy yellow incandescents back in my living room. The CFLs? Smash-in-the-Trash. Or maybe I’ll break them and get the mercury out and play with it like I did when I was a kid.
Ummmm, these screwy light bulbs are a LIBERAL project. The MSM will watch their own children die of mercury poisoning before they'd do a feature on it...
I had one that lasted about two months. And no they do not emit the same amount of light.
gee, and here I thought the worst CFL drawbacks were the Rouge Point and all of that motion before the snap...