Green Inc: Shedding Light on the C.F.L.s - NYTimes.com

[dick117]

LEDs is where it's at, I'm already slowly replacing our cfls with them in our most commonly lit areas.

[noreaga12326]

if these CFLs were that good, many ppl around the world wouldnt be stocking up on good old incandescents. No matter how hard they try, a cfl will never have the exact warm light quality that an incandescent has. so im not convinced. i will stick to my incandescents.

[VonGoetzi]

Not as much mercury in a CFL as in a simple flu shot. Go line up and get your injection today, like good little sheep.

[o0o8ra1no0o]

4:24 lmao as long as you double bag it

[DaMirrorLink]

only beef i have with a CFL is that one fell and broke on my face and now i have a scar on my nose :(

[Ballpythondude420]

they also contain mercury which is a serious hazard and that can lead to long term problems

[74LS08]

Realiabilty IS an issue with these lights. Rest of the complaints are really unfounded. I had bought abot 20+ bulbs from different manufacturers so far and two of them failed within days. So much for 10,000 hours... Do you ever recall an incandecent light failing within days? Never.

I would stick with known brands like GE & Silvania/Philips. Buying chinese made crap will wind up costing you more in a long run.

[AquarianAgeManifest]

I laugh when people flat out reject products without researching them first.

People don't even know when they sound like idiots.

My old boss was the cheapest man I've ever met and he refused to switch to CFLs. He had no reason to slam them, but he did. I tried to show him the facts, but even still, he rejected the idea. People can be so foolish for absolutely no reason.

[menderfire9]

I bought CFL's 3 years ago when they first came out and have not had to replace any of them yet.

I dropped a lamp & broke one a few weeks ago & picked the glass pieces up wearing gloves, wiped the floor up with gobs of damp paper towel & that was it.

History lesson: In some nations the parents feed their teen agers several drops of mercury as an antidote to getting poisoned by bad food. True story. I was asked to participate in such an event. I backed away from that idea real fast however.

[broshco]

History lesson: The modern CFL was invented by Ed Hammer, an engineer with General Electric, in response to the 1973 oil crisis.

[wwwy2000]

your not making a difference if you dont recycle the bulbs.

[DaMirrorLink]

some of us don't have places near us where you can

[AngelicAcid453]

but most of these fluorescent light blubs cant fit in all lamp shades etc.

[Swarm200]

those lights have mercury in them if they break it costs 2000 dollars to have it cleaned up, they also emit uv which causes skin cancer. Just cause it says green doesn't mean it really is. Like how there is a larger carbon footprint for manufacturing prius than there is for a fucking humer.

[tootiredtothink]

do you know how hard it is to break one of these? how often are you swatting around at your lights or throwing them at the ground? Where did you get the 2000 dollar clean-up estimate? Sounds like you just don't want to have to simply switch your light bulbs or have something against green(er) energy

[AaronJLong]

I bought a pack of these and one of them broke when I was transporting them back to my house (crazy driving, lol) and I didn't have to pay $2000 for cleanup. 5mg of mercury is nothing. You gotta think that in your grandparents' time mercury was in toys made for children, and they would even break said toys open and play with the "quicksilver" itself. We now know that mercury can be dangerous, but that doesn't mean that it is freaking anthrax. People nowadays are afraid of everything.

[pudicus2]

are people really that ignorant

[laxbk]

When the world finally realizes that man-made global warming is a myth, we will have to deal with landfills full of mercury from all these "green" cfls.

[tootiredtothink]

yeah, fuck trying to keep our environment clean! let's just fill up those landfills :D

[dackjaniels555]

Green = Science and Saving money & The environment.