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  • Stop the CFL Madness!

    Boy, the hype is thick as a brick in here. I don't know who's really behind the insane rush to CFLs, but, as usual, I'm following the money. Thirty cents for an incandecent that breaks down in a landfill, vs. $5 for a CFL that needs a haz-mat crew to properly dispose of it. Swap out a few billion of them and do the math. The best rebuttal to the ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by elrod on February 18, 2008

  • CFL Fraud

    The real problem with CFLs is that the wattages are artificially inflated. The reason they cost less to operate is because they only put out half as much light as their equivalent wattage incandecent bulbs. The same savings could be achieved by substituting 60 watt incandecent bulbs for 100 watt ones - with the same result - less ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by johnjohn2 on February 8, 2008

  • Incandescent vs. CFLs

    My problem with CFLs is not so much one of nostalgia, but one of health and sanity. I have a condition which causes me to see the flicker of CFLs, CRTs, and LEDs much more than most people do. They drive me nuts! Think of how life would be in a constant strobe room. That's it for me. Incandescents have much less affect on ...
    Posted to Fraywatch by Gyrobug08 on February 8, 2008

  • Aesthetics of CFLs

    7 Feb 08 I enjoyed the Green Lantern's informative piece on compact flourescent lights today. I'd been wondering about the mercury issue, so thanks to the Lant, as they say, for shedding a little light on that. And before I go anywhere here, let me say in advance that I completely concede the environmental advantages of these zippy ...
    Posted to Fraywatch by mhodges on February 7, 2008

  • Is Slate Incompetent, Who's the Editor?

    You've done a great injustice here, and haven't researched your topic. Granted, there is a slight amount of mercury in CFL's. However, as most of the U.S.'s electricity comes from coal (the largest emitter of mercury in the world), in the end, using CFL's lowers the amount of mercury released. That's even if all of them are dumped in the public ...
    Posted to The Spectator by hoffboom on February 2, 2008

  • Mercury in CFL bulbs

    ... is a red herring. A stupid one. Coal-fired power plants, the top source of U.S. electricity, are also one of the top sources of mercury pollution in the U.S [PDF]. The electricity saved by using a CFL bulb instead of incandescents is also (in most of the country) mercury that isn't emitted by a coal plant - more mercury than is in that CFL ...
    Posted to The Spectator by jbyoder on January 30, 2008

  • SLATE Article on Wal-Mart "Killing" the Incadescent Lightbul

    Another cheap shot by SLATE. So environmental concerns are the plaything of the ''upper-class'', the ''rich'' or whatever other phase the writer can think of? Look around, Mr. Article Writer... at school children of every economic ''class'.. or on the otherhand, most of the major corporations in the country, who have changed their tune and ...
    Posted to Moneybox by Richard Schoen on October 10, 2007