Posted on 07/03/2010 7:11:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ooops! I forgot to include the link.
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Read what the EPA says is necessary if you break one of the "green" CFL bulbs...it is considered a hazardous mercury spill. http://www.epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup.html
I didn't know they were ready for prime time yet?
Speak truth to power.
Anti-CFLers wearing Edison masks should stage random CFL smashes in streets of the socialist utopia.
Turning a CFL on and off in a short period of time will sharply reduce its lifespan. Ideally, they should be left on for a minimum of 15 minutes.
Florescents give me a freaking headache, too!
...turn on your AM or shortwave radio, and enjoy the buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz that the CFL bulbs cause.
Fortunately, my house is small and I don't use that many light bulbs. I've stocked up a lifetime supply.
LED technology will be available in a few years and will blow away CFLs.
When you have some time and want a giggle, go check out our fav government agency's, that would be the EPA, directions for cleaning up after a broken CFL pollutes your environment.
I’m slightly claustrophobic. For some reason florescent lighting greatly magnifies my discomfort! I go into a huge store with flo lights, and I feel like I’m handcuffed and in a tiny box! Have no idea why. At home, with incandescents, I’m fine, no discomfort at all. c-phobia not noticeable at all. But turn on a flo bulb?
The local electric co-op recently mailed all their customers a free CFL bulb.
I returned mine. The lady at the co-op wanted to know why. As I handed her the CFL and a copy of the EPA's cleanup procedure I said, "Why would I knowingly bring an environmental hazard into my home?" She had no response.
If they want my salt, they'll have to take it from my warm, high blood pressure hands.
I dis-connected the ones above my desk. A worker bee came in to fix the ballast last week and I told him the bulbs were off on purpose. They bother me. He left.
I have three on 24x7 (two are outside). That gets the longest lifetime out of them. I have a few more that I turn on once in the evening and off when I go to bed. Everything else is incandescent.
“...The local electric co-op recently mailed
their customers a free CFL bulb...I returned mine...”
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You should have returned it ‘broken’...
and claimed that it arrived that way...
and that you were feeling ill...
and that you were on your way to see your doctor...
and that your attorney would be contacting them...
Boy do I have a salt story. I’ll wait. (It was low BTW).
Maybe we’ll all have to get light bulb handicap stickers for our front doors to have them. Can’t wait until they make us go to the special counter to purchase them and sign that we aren’t using them illegally.
Whether the incandescent bulb is too hot, too wasting of energy or what not should not really be the business of government.
You want LED systems ? Knock yourself out as long as you don;t vote for a bureaucrat that forces me to buy what I think is value for money for myself.
LET THE FREE MARKET DECIDE. If the value for money of Edison’s invention drops to a point where it is no longer economical to own them, people will abandon them.
Why do we allow politicians and bureaucrats to decide this for us ? First, the light bulb, then what next ? Eat your veggies three times a day or else.... ???
What kind of people are we becoming ?
I just realized that my post could be misunderstood as a joke or a wise crack.
What I was asking about was the odor that comes from the sewer line in unused plumbing fixtures, when the water in the p-trap evaporates from non use.
There's a reason those suckers are subjected to government regulation.
Now, going back up the line to the consumer, that's where the demand for power comes from.
In reality there's not much demand on the grid that comes from incandescent lights because they are used only for residential lighting these days, which has been the case since WWII.
The argument you should be making is that there's NO ADVANTAGE in discontinuing incandescent bulbs used for residential lighting. On the other hand, there is an advantage in regulating power plants ~ and that's because the wind blows, water flows, people breath, and so forth.
Ironically, the future of lighting is LEDs. They’re even more energy efficient than CFL’s and have none of the drawbacks. Governments shouldn’t be wasting their time pushing dead-end CFL technology; but that would require them to act logically, and that’s expecting too much.
Cough - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan - Cough
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