Bulb versus Bulb 2

[KoRnownsyou]

why don't they just nuke us instead its alot quicker, and less heartache.

[bestamerica]

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i like a REVEAL light bulb is better than a twister bulb,,,

the reason is a important to use a dimmer control

[compukenny]

Avoid The CFL bulbs. They are very bad for you.Mercury content, and they are known to trigger migrain headaches in some people. If The CFL promoting people think that they are going to all be recycled they better think again.

As nearky as I can figure the biggest danger presented by incandesants is that I might cut my finger on a piece of glass if I were to break one. After all global warming is just a theory.

[newalm]

Well, after two years, I stocked up on enough incandescent light bulbs to last me 20 years! None of those of those curly twisty mercury infested light bulbs that bathe the world in a gauzy, dim, dirty, yellow haze will not light up my house!

[routharoni]

@newalm

I hope you stocked up on Rotary telephones (those new-fangled touch tones stink!)

and i hope you still use a manual typewriter for all your correspondence...

"word processors will never catch on". Forward into the 19th century!

Enjoy.

[newalm]

@routharoni I still have my electric typewriter which can come handy, and I still use FREON for my car air conditioning! ...oooh, I can hear it leaking into the ozone too whenI recharge my AC! I hope you enjoy your dim curly bulbs! Be careful not to get mercury poisoning from them!

[Varyalover]

@routharoni These lightbulbs are deathtraps!Smoking MIGHT give you lung cancor (My pa is on his 29th year) but these bulbs, you have to do extreme conditions if you break one, spend 2000$ or most likely more to tear up and replace floors, replace furniture, and still rist electromagnetic radiation as well as brain cancor, for only 1 bulb.Also, it takes more energy to make then you could save with switching from incandescent, and the pay fgor itself is exxhagerated.

[electrictroy2010]

@routharoni I'm an electrical engineer. WHY do I even want to switch to CFLs? So I can save a measly few pennies each month? That seems pointless

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Besides I'll burn up several dollars (and emits lots of CO2) having to drive the CFLs to the landfill after they die.  That's doesn't seem very "green" to me

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[stbays]

Eventually we can replace CFL with LED, but I wonder just how long it'll be till companies invest in developing bulbs based on the LED tech. Right now, it's taken a federal ruling to force companies to finally get rid of the oldest type for CFL. It'll probably be a few decades before another similar ruling forces them to move upward again.

[firelitealarms997]

i by CFL light bulbs

[44Russian44]

LED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crazybeavers155]

Lamp Type Power Luminous Efficacy (lu/W) Efficiency ¹

Tungsten incandescent 40W 12.6 1.9%

Tungsten incandescent 100W 17.5 2.6%

Quartz halogen n/a 24 3.5%

Fluorescent (compact) 5W - 24W 45 60 6.6% - 8.8%

Fluorescent tube (T8 120cm / 4 ft) 36W 93 (max, typical) 14% (max, typical)

Fluorescent tube (T5 115cm / 45 in) 28W 104 15.2%

Xenon arc lamp n/a 30 - 50 (typical) 4.4% - 7.3%

High pressure sodium n/a 150 22%

Low pressure sodium n/a 183 - 200 27% - 29%

[raursf]

I invite everyone to read this article on CFL:

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sound+westhost+com/articles/in­candescent+htm#in2

[nckek]

lol. people throw them away all the time.

[ArT2Oo0]

LoL i do idc

[ForestJay]

CFLs have mercury, which is toxic. You HAVE to recycle them because if you don't you are adding toxic waste to the dump. LEDs are non-toxic, shock resistant, and don't even have glass so they are safe for kids and pets. LED bulbs also last about 100% longer than CFLs.

[COLUMBINE1818]

That's right. Fuck CFL lets go LED!