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Also I don't know about anyone else but I installed 4 of these CFL's in my bathroom when I first moved here(18 months ago) and I had two bulbs burn out on me a few weeks ago and the other two are somewhat dark at the base of the bulb which tells me that they are on their last legs. I haven't changed them yet but when I do I will be going back to the regular light bulbs. These bulbs are rated at 8000 hours and I estimate the runtime at about 1 hour per day but with 8-10 on cycles per day. Occasionally I am also gone for a week or so when I travel so the bulb isn't being used. So in reality I only got about 500 hours out of these bulbs. I expected much more out of these.
The benefits of these lightbulbs are one of the many farces of the environmental movement - which can only exist if participants in the movement perpetrate fraud after fraud and the sheeple suspend their disbelief. They are much more dangerous and pollute the earth much more than the old style bulbs. Its not even debatable.
Its kind of like how plastic grocery bags were going to save the planet and instead are ruining the planet. We now know that paper bags are much better overall for the environment than the paper bags.
I won't ever use these lightbulbs, except in outdoor lighting. Don't want them in my home.
- DIG!
Popular Mechanics ran the math, and even if every CF bulb broke and released all its mercury into the environment, they would still on average result in less mercury released, because US energy mainly comes from burning coal which releases mercury into the atmosphere. CF bulbs require less coal to be burned, and result in less mercury released, than using a traditional incandescent bulb.
If you recycle the CF bulbs safely, there is even further less mercury released.
Approximately 0.0234 mg of mercury—plus carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide—releases into the air per 1 kwh of electricity that a coal-fired power plant generates. Over the 7500-hour average range of one CFL, then, a plant will emit 13.16 mg of mercury to sustain a 75-watt incandescent bulb but only 3.51 mg of mercury to sustain a 20-watt CFL (the lightning equivalent of a 75-watt traditional bulb). Even if the mercury contained in a CFL was directly released into the atmosphere, an incandescent would still contribute 4.65 more milligrams of mercury into the environment over its lifetime.
Ya' think??!! LOL!! Thank You Duke Energy for the little balls of glass filled with a deadly substance. God forbid I break one, I'll need to call Hazmat to clean it up!!
Popular Mechanics ran the math, and even if every CF bulb broke and released all its mercury into the environment, they would still on average result in less mercury released, because US energy mainly comes from burning coal which releases mercury into the atmosphere. CF bulbs require less coal to be burned, and result in less mercury released, than using a traditional incandescent bulb.
If you recycle the CF bulbs safely, there is even further less mercury released.
It isn't clear where all of the information they report comes from. They do cite the EPA in one paragraph. The EPA has an axe to grind as its full of disgusting liberal eco-types and has always been very biased in anything it gets involved in.
It isn't clear where all of the information they report comes from. They do cite the EPA in one paragraph. The EPA has an axe to grind as its full of disgusting liberal eco-types and has always been very biased in anything it gets involved in.
- DIG!
What a load of tripe.
Do tell us diggum, which esteemed source do you get *your* data from? Moonbat.com?
That article says that you need a light fixture that is rated for cf bulbs. That's interesting since I use them in 2 lamps given to my parents when they got married in 1950.
Also I don't know about anyone else but I installed 4 of these CFL's in my bathroom when I first moved here(18 months ago) and I had two bulbs burn out on me a few weeks ago and the other two are somewhat dark at the base of the bulb which tells me that they are on their last legs. I haven't changed them yet but when I do I will be going back to the regular light bulbs. These bulbs are rated at 8000 hours and I estimate the runtime at about 1 hour per day but with 8-10 on cycles per day. Occasionally I am also gone for a week or so when I travel so the bulb isn't being used. So in reality I only got about 500 hours out of these bulbs. I expected much more out of these.
We've had the EXACT same experience with these bulbs. None have lasted near as long as some of the long life regular bulbs we bought. Not even close.
That article says that you need a light fixture that is rated for cf bulbs. That's interesting since I use them in 2 lamps given to my parents when they got married in 1950.
ROFLMAO!!! You must not have read the article close enough!!!
- DIG!
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