Australia to ban old-style light bulbs

Associated Press ^ | 02/20/07 | ROHAN SULLIVAN

[ichabod1]

I'm going to run all my lights all the time when I get my flouros.

[ichabod1]

I think that cool color is just more comfortable on the human eye which, after all, has to be able to see both in the day and at night.

[sine_nomine]

Not really. The delay is about a second, tops, if that. I want them scared away. I don't want them hanging around.

[RayChuang88]

Older CFL's were notoriously bad for slow "warmup" times and an unpleasant bluish tint on the light temperature. I still have a Panasonic brand "globe" CFL that takes about 70 seconds to get full light output.

However, improvements in CFL technology has reduced the "warmup" times to under 20 seconds and also changed the color temperature to something with far less bluish tint. And they're a lot cheaper, too; the Panasonic CFL cost me US$15.00 back in 1999, and now I can get a CFL with the same light output for around US$2.00.

[4KennewickMan2Invent]

More signs of the stupidity of liberalism, socialism, fascism (private companies with state dictated rules).

Leftist politicians and many "green coats" push fluorescent lamps, but only have barely enough intelligence to flip on/off the switch.

What about the higher costs?
What about choice?
What about the poor choice they are in cold weather?
What about all the %$#^@ mercury with billions of bulbs?
There are low-mercury lamps and still no mercury-free, but they cost a LOT more. Also, don't forget that even though fluorescent lights have been used since before WWII, you will have idiots scared because they "didn't know they were polluting". Remember that these bulbs require special handling and recycling (thus more people driving around and transporting these bulbs in combustion engines and using more electricity for their compounds).

So in the big picture we'll end up using less intiial electricity, but spend a lot of it in regulations, mercury clean-up, and energy used to do this (especially when we get charged "mercury bulb deposit" taxes)! Thanks to the government educated enviro"mental" idiots!!!!!!! The money isn't saved... it's redistributed!

This socialist liberalism makes my head hurt. They hate capitalism and thinking, otherwise they'd mention LEDs and other non-toxic, high efficiency lighting methods under way to replace what we currently use.

[Ignatz]

I use some of the new "daylight" incandescent bulbs. I like the light they give off, but they don't last for crap. Typically less than three months.