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  • Massive Groundwater Mercury Cleanup

    Is it five years from now when the first big wave of long-lasting CFL bulbs will hit American garbage cans? I understand that it's more mercury in the air today to generate electricity for incandescents than is used in the CFL bulbs today. But our children or grandchildren will curse us and pay billions to clean-up the groundwater polluted by ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by ScheduleC on February 13, 2008

  • Pushing CFL bulbs is highly irresponsible!

    The Fray's pushing for CFL bulbs is a highly irresponsible, and somewhat mis-informed effort. People being what they are, most will continue to throw away CFLs in the trash, where they're broken, releasing the mercury into landfills, then runoff, ground water, and finally the oceans, where it's concentrated by the various food layers until we ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by swamper777 on February 9, 2008

  • Florecent Lights

    Lets get over the whole CO2 nonsense which has nothing to do with global warming okay, These light bulbs are a disaster and I'm not talking mercury, I'm talking usefulness. Who in their right mind wants to walk around looking a slightly sick shade of green. If we wanted to do this we could all live in an office. They work real well with ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by Mr Co on February 9, 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