Posted on 12/09/2011 6:07:38 PM PST by Evil Slayer
Fairies come and take the old CFLs away. At least that’s what I figure must be happening because I certainly wouldn’t want to break the law.
My second cousin twice removed has a third cousin with a friend who says his wife’s best friend says she just tosses the dammed things in the trash (rumor, of course).
“You have one go out yet? If so, how do you get rid of it? Against the law to just through it away. Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)”
Box it up and send it to the White House addressed to the alleged brightest bulb in the package.
Not unlike the internal combustion engine.
What is it these morons against anything good and Holy?
Don't you mean "knough?"
ROFLMAO!!
I am totally against a mandate on bulbs but I like the CFLs.
I have had one burning on the front porch 24/7 for five years.
Our master bath has two fixtures that hold eight bulbs each. Regular bulbs heated the room fifteen degrees over ambient. The CFL’s produce as much light and no heat.
I sure as hell don’t have one in any reading lamps though.
I’m in the next district over from Fred Upton and I’d like to send the old CFLs to his office for him to deal with but I’d go to prison for sending poison through the mail.
Try 130 volt bulbs.
If Edison were alive, he’d shrug.
I have yet to buy a CFL yet, so I know nothing about them. Considering my stock of incandescents, I may never know.
“You have one go out yet? If so, how do you get rid of it? Against the law to just through it away. Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)”
I throw them away. There, now I’ve outed myself.
Do you buy the 130V bulbs? I had a problem with a bathroom fixture burning through bulbs, and it hasn’t happened since I bought the 130V incandescents.
Maybe a better solution would be to the old CFBs in a standard envelope and send them back to GE.
Maybe a better solution would be to toss the old CFBs in a standard envelope and send them back to GE.
You know, of course, if you drop one of these suckers and it breaks, you are supposed to contact your local fire department and inform them you have a hazmat incident.
I can imagine this excites the local FDs no end. Ten or fifteen times a week they get to don their hazmat suits to collect the remnants of dropped light bulbs.
How about producing a 101 watt incandescent bulb?
Heil Holidays!
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