Posted on 03/22/2006 5:14:34 AM PST by Born Conservative
We have those little spirally flouescent ones and they don't all last the 5 years they're guaranteed to. OTOH, I've seen them at a pretty good price at Value (sp) home stores occasionally, and they do save on electricity. I think they're only worth it for lights that are left on constantly. We have a few that we use all the time and those have the flouescents. I do like the color of the incandescents better, they're a much warmer looking light.
I've only had one burn out in 4 years. I guess it depends on the brand?
When I have to conserve and China sells Beanie Babies made by slave labor and uses the profits to buy the weapons to kill me, that hurts.
The website itself is pitiful. You should send them money.
The title says it all. They are promoting junk science.
Gosh, sorry about your low level of reading comprehension. Perhaps you should go back and actually look at the words to which you responded before you show us all how littel you pay attention to what is on your screen.
Perhaps looking at the link will be a good idea as well.
In general, those compact fluorescent bulbs are fine, but they take about a minute to come up to full brightness, and some of them interfere with AM radio reception.
I am with you on probabilities. But you are going to have to actually dispute the facts that I presented and do so with some solid evidence (As I did) in order for me to begin to consider that they are not hard facts.
Which facts do you dispute? Come and tell me what I wrote that is not true or for which you have alternative facts?
I have nothing against long life compact fluorescent bulbs; I have them throughtout my house. The issue I have is that the teacher is brainwashing his students into thinking that by using these bulbs, they will "fix" the "problem" of global warming.
The earth has been in existence for a long time, yet we have only been keeping records of temperature data for a little over 100 years. There is NO proof that burning fuel causes the earth's temp to rise, yet that is what the kids are being taught.
Possibly. I'd sure like to find one that DOES live up to the advertised lifetimes. I've got'em installed (even in my personal reading lamp), and they're OK "color"-wise, but the ones I buy at Ace Hardware don't last to match their rep.
Anyone seen a "Consumers Reports" on compact fluorescents??
For places where I REALLY need long bulb life (outdoor lights in somewhat inaccessible spots), I buy the 20,000 hour incandescents--which DO last up to their reps.
LOL! Can't win for loosing, huh? They get you either way.
All I know is from my personal experience using them, I have saved over $2000 in electric costs over 4 years, and have never had to change a bulb except one since I put them in, whereas it seemed I was always changing lightbulbs before, especially that bathroom light where you go to turn it on in the morning and Bink! You're peeing in the dark. Never again.
So, for the $180 or so it cost to change most of the incadescent bulbs over, it was well worth it.
So you are telling me that it "has been proven" that the wavelengths of fluorescent bulbs cause "moodyness" and I am suppoed to believe it.
But, if presented with science on which there is near total agreement and frequently repeated, measureable outcomes to prove it, that is "junk"? Come on now.
PS No, there is not a fluorescent bulb on at the moment I have a window and it is sunny.
Two months do not prove anything climate wise. You also forgot November and December, which were really cold and so far this March has been nothing to write home about.
CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas, it's third on the list of strongest greenhouse gases behind water vapor (first) and methane (second). I've got some of the *global warming* in my driveway, too.
Not so fast. Check this out.
BTW, do you ever stray from liberal talking points? It seems like every thread I see you on you are pushing their agenda.
Global warming? On the first day of spring (2 days ago), the temperature in Pennsylvania was below freezing. So much for global WARMING....
Yeah, yeah, I see it.... Just go back over your historic data for global / regional climate changes and compare it to human industrialization.
Regardless of the impact on the environment it seems to be the correct thing to do for our personal economies and to help the country move towards energy independence.
The temperature and CO2 records that are being kept from the station in Hawaii which are the basis for all this CO2 global warming connection have only been kept since 1958.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa_Observatory
Not long enough to make any significant correlations.
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