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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

  • First if its efficiency and Green its LED

    The main reason to go to any new light source is efficiency in the life of the source. The most efficient light source is Fiber optic from sunlight but retrofit is highly expensive Second most effective is a thermal protected Skylight source of light In Electrical light, The Light Emitting Diode (LED) is the most cost efficient source of light ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by Hhandyman 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

  • How much energy used to manufacture a CFL?

    I too have experienced poor performance from the cheap CFL bulbs sold in multi-packs from Lowes and Home Depot that most people likely buy... they only last 6 months to a year. Using retail price as a proxy for manufacturing costs suggests that CFLs are more expensive to produce, and ultimately use more energy to manufacture, than incandescent ...
    Posted to Moneybox by geebee on October 8, 2007

  • CFL disillusionment

    I am sooooo glad to read here that I am not the only person disillusioned with CFLs. I have posted my complaints at many sites where these things are discussed, and no one else seems to get it! I actually live in a 3rd World country where CFLs are widely available and lots of people use them -- since people seem to worry that even if Americans ...
    Posted to Moneybox by Jenners on October 8, 2007