So what works inst cool, but a bulb that contains mercury is? LED lights are fucking expensive. The CFL doesn't last nearly as long as they say, speaking ive been using them for years and they keep going out in a shorter time than those "uncool" incandescent lights.
@leelefever - hey dude, I guess now would be the best time to get rid of this vid. I'm sure you've had to read the studies or watch the vids on the dirty energy that comes from CFLs.
60 cents a bulb for real bulb's----BS I pay less than $1 for a pack of 4
$4 for 1 CFL ok. Now some math 13 real bulbs =$3.25 for the same length of time the CFL cost me 75 cents more. Power use is 25% less. Lower bills? not for long If you think the utiliities are gonna take a revenue hit your way wrong. Electricity prices will rise. Sorry but global warming BS is just that BS.
CFLS don't work well in cold areas (under 50deg) Also burst into flames unexpectedly...House fire and.savings gone
You use your crappy mercury spaghetti light. Which also don't turn on on time, and I'll use my old fashioned incandescent light thats been working fine since 1879.
The government didn't ban vinyl, vcr's or cassettes. Why is it the governments business as to what lightbulb we use? I'm perfectly happy with paying a whopping $2.00 more a month for my lighting choice. Stop telling us what we can and can't use in our own home.
I couldn't stand CFLs because of their horrible light spectrum that they work in. However there are some with cool full spectrum . They are more expensive but are much more tolerable. Look for 5000k or higher spectrum CFLs. Alot of times they don't say but they are coming on the market more and more. Mine are 6500k and are good for me. LED tech is coming along too.
@evilfreethinker The 6500K you are talking about is the color temperature. 6500K means cool white (a blue tone) while 2700K is the warmest color you will normally find on a CFL.
I agree with what youre saying about the newer full spectrum and non-flickering CFLs though.
Fuck this hippy ass hole and his fucking cfl light bulb,by the way I still do watch movies on my fucking VCR you tree hugging fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree that we sould save electricity, but they are toxic due to the mercury..so we burn less coal but we pollute with mercury, and the light is inferior, and finally they only save when they are left on and take about 3 min to get warmed up to illumin to their rated wattage. they really are not that good, but we have a law that says in 2012 this will be all we can use...why can't LED's work?
@wrjamescom Well, its debateable I suppose. Its not really a pollutant, but it is a greenhouse gas after all so it can contribute to "global warming". Or as I like to call it, global freezing. We had the coldest winter ever last year. While Canada was said to have the warmest summer ever.
@320bit CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but even if we were to quadruple it, it would still be an insignificant trace gas. Water vapor make up very nearly all of the earth's greenhouse gas. Water also transports massive amounts of energy, from the surface and radiates much of it back into space when it condenses. And water also makes the earth more reflective or less, depending on relevant things like solar radiation. The CO2 is entirely irrelevant.
Excuse me eco-hippie drone, but CO2 isn't pollution. Mercury vapor, now that's pollution. Second, maybe if there weren't so many bans and restrictions on new nuclear power stations we wouldn't have to burn as much coal. A light buld that needs time to warm up, AWSOME! If you're under the impressions that CFLs will somehow save you money, consider that an CFL costs 10 times as much as a flourescent bulb. But hey, don't let annoying things like facts get in the way. The truth, in plain english.
@K20ej88 Well said! This crackpot in the video is an ignorant follower of the pseudoscience religious dogma of frauds. Having said that, I switched almost all my lights to CFLs a couple of years ago simply because I happen to like them. My power isn't as stable as it is in most places and so incandescent bulbs blow out in my home frequently. Plus I can use 4 CFLs with the same power cost as one incandescent. But I absolutely oppose the crackpots telling people they have to switch.
@wrjamescom If you're dead set on blowing your money on light bulbs, at least go for the LEDs. They are more efficient than CFLs, and they also last longer. They are a bit pricier than CFLs, but then again they don't need time to warm up, and don't contain poisonous gasses.
@K20ej88 Can you sell me some that put out the light equivalent to a 100 watt incandescent bulb? Yes, they are far more efficient, but they are still way too impractical for lighting a home. You'd have to have dozens of them in every fixture. I'm not ready to spend more lighting the house than the house cost. :)
@K20ej88 Are you saying you want more nuclear power plants? Do you understand WHY we dont want to use nuclear power? Chernobyl anyone? Nuclear power isnt stable, and if something goes wrong, then we are all fucked. While its a clean power source, its not clean when it blows up. I for one would rather burn coal than take the risk of having the whole world become a nuclear wasteland cuz some dumbass like you wanted all nuclear power plants.
@320bit Yes. Nuclear yeilds 70% of the power in this country, and produces no pollution. Using a 40 year old reactor built in SOVIET RUSSIA as a case against nuclear power is borderline insipid, if not outright stupid. If something goes wrong, modern reactors have a litany of failsafes/ backup measures to prevent dissasters. Current legistation, written by the same type of people who make videos like this, prohibits the construction of newer- safer-and cleaner reactors. Who's the dumbass now?
@320bit Oh come on! Chernobyl was a pitiful design. Modern reactors are very safe. In the USA more people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in nuclear power plant accidents.
@wrjamescom That doesnt change that fact that nuclear reactors are still, and always will be unstable. Thats what a nuclear reaction basically is. They have to be watched very closely at all times. Also, did you not hear on the news recently about Japans nuclear reactor explosion? They are NOT safe. And thats why we need to get rid of them. Nuclear power is not a good power source.
@320bit Do you actually know anything about how the reactors work? Or do you just parrot the hippie ludite activists' lines? Those reactors in Japan are old and poor designs and even more poorly planned given the local geology. Modern designs are impossible to melt down. Of all the power sources we have, nuclear is by far the safest, the least polluting, the most reliable and has the least impact on the environment. The only partial exception to that is hydroelectric.
@320bit Hydroelectric is pretty safe and reliable, once built. But there are limits on where we can put them, and they have large environmental impact. Wind and solar are both jokes unless and until exponential advances in power storage are made. Hydrogen is totally useless, as it takes more energy to produce the fuel than the fuel yields. There's little left except fossil fuels.
But CFL bulbs can cause radio interference with wireless devices, plus they contain toxic mercury which, if it drops and breaks, you will be breathing in toxic vapor. No thank you, I'll stick with Thomas Edison.
It's been made clear recently that nothing the anyone does in his personal lifestyle or home is going to make any difference with AGW. All the right wing noise about all elitist Al Gores heating bills in all his houses, his private jet pollution footprint, is going to make any difference either way when you consider the amazing CO2 output of China, US and India. Why do they hate Gore? B/c he took on Big Tobacco & Big Oil the 2 big industries in the south. Conservatives never forget
@danger0usknowledge ROTFLMAO! Gore was and is more highly invested in Big Oil than George Bush ever was. Gore campaigned bragging about his family's tobacco farms. People hate Gore because he's a fraud, a crooked politician, a liar, and an idiot who peddles his pseudoscience religion and because he's a two-bit hypocrite.
@wrjamescom - What investor in their right mind would NOT be invested in Big Oil considering profits. BTW, Gore won the popular vote in 2000. (Imagine the southern strategy if Obama had ever lost the popular vote in 08 & had to depend on the SC to get elected?) Gore turned his back the conservative south, his own class of rich southerners & the fact that he was responsible for the dive in tobacco stocks, with public hearings that embarrassed all those CEO's in front of the world.
@danger0usknowledge Under our constitutional republic, the president is not elected by the people. The popular vote is irrelevant. Gore clearly lost the election, and his hired Chicago election riggers failed to fix it. They tried to disenfranchise all the voters in Florida by tying it up until the state's electors wouldn't be counted. The USSC simply rejected that scam. How many recounts does it take? Gore lost. Get used to it and learn some new parrot lines.
@danger0usknowledge What? Bush was elected in 2000, Obama was elected in 2008. So that did happen. But does either of those socialist big government, lying sacks of sewage have to do with conservatives? If you are suggesting that both wings of the two faced republicrat party are the same, and that either would whine and pitch fits if they lost a close election, or that either would lie cheat or steal to rig an election if they could, I wouldn't argue with that.
@danger0usknowledge I've been voting for conservatives for over two decades and counting. That means I've been voting against all republicrats, and voting instead for write-ins, independents, and 2nd party candidates. I have never and would never vote for any member of the Bush family. I was simply stating that he won the election without regard to the whining of Gore and his parrots.
@RandomConcepts How bout this. Don't worry about what I say to someone else and the factual information I give out. Instead of complaining about what I am saying in your passive tone, go do your own "protesting" since you seem to care about coal-burning so much as to relay your useless information to my point I was trying to make with the other commenter. Coal-burning is a whole other subject that has nothing to do with our comments. Take your friendly banter somewhere else.
@RandomConcepts I don't give a lot of credibility to the EPA when it comes to certain things, considering the fact that they stated CFLs should be double bagged before disposal, yet the Maine Department of Environmental Protection study of 2008 warned that plastic bags are the WORST CHOICE as vapors well above safe levels leach through the plastic. But even a person that uses basic logic would be in favor or the MDEP's way to properly dispose of CFLs. Anything else you want to add my friend?
@RandomConcepts If you would have read ALL of my comments, not just the ones in the linked comment section, you would have understood that I am not "protesting". I'm just simply stating that if they want to do a ban to "protect" the environment, banning incandecents instead of CFLs is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. I was also stating through my other comments that they have no right to tell me what bulbs to put in my house. And I agree with your quote from the EPA, however,
Ok CC you are way too liberal on this one. A. We don't have any real proof of global warming & B. CFL are full of Mercury! They cause more pollution then the normal light bulbs.
@Dell0304 enjoy your mercury poisening. I suggest you watch the vid called The AntiTerroririst On Seeing the Light by theactiterrorist on his channel.
@Dell0304 incorrect, up to 25mg of mercury in 1 bulb. Mercury is the second most toxic metal after radio active subtances. 30 thousand pounds of mercury are put into our landfills every year and thats just from the CFL bulbs. The mercury vapors in 1 broken bulb can travel over 200 miles. So now that all CFLs will be mandatory, that means even more toxic mercury to fuck people over and cause more health problems such as kidney failure(since you are not aware how toxic mercury is to the kidneys),
@Dell0304 and it's been know to cause migranes in people especially adolecents(there goes trying to keep them focused in school since these lights will be mandatory in classrooms), skin irritation, and they suck in lighting. You think just because they say a 26w CFL equals a 100w incandescent that its true? Have you not heard the countless complaints about the irregular lighting and the low light emissions which means people are actually buying more CFLs to use because one bulb for light source
@Dell0304 just isn't enough? Are also aware of HOW MUCH IT ACTUALLY COSTS to manufacture CFLs? I bet you don't cuz then you would realize that you are actually NOT SAVING, and are instead just eating what the government is telling you. Oh ya these sure sound like "GREEN" products to me, lets see how green they are: Toxic Mercury(Check!), Health problems(Check) EPA -Environmental Protection Agency-Telling me the proper requirements to clean up a broken bulb so no one get harmed from mercury
@Dell0304 poisening including babies and pets(Check!) Radio Frequency Radiation that causes more side effects(Check!) What else??An International Association for Energy-Efficient Lighting (IAEEL) study conducted in Denmark, explored some carbon footprint factors, but not all, showing it took 1.8 Kwh of electricity to assemble a CFL compared to 0.11 Kwh to assemble an incandescent bulb. That means it took 16 times more energy to produce a CFL.
@Dell0304 The study did not include the fact that a CFL is much heavier and is more dangerous to handle, and will thus cost more to package, to ship, and to sell. Hows that for doing your research. But like George Carlin once said, "I'm not a very good American because I Like to think for myself." So please go do your homework before you contribute to the problem and ruin the future of your kids that will probably be born with even more health problems than a decade ago.
@Dell0304 And one last thing, the mercury that ends up in our landfills from broken CFLs, also get absorbed into the soil, and transported into our water system, so hows that for a double wammy. Please do more research into mercury poisoning and electromagnetic radiation symptoms. Now please prove me wrong.
@frsupermoon Yes mercury is bad but. here a chose, you live in a Extreme filled Envement with super high and super low temptures with higher water levels and freck storms OR.. you take a almost impossable chance that you may get mercury poisening. I would go for the second one how about you?
@MrMadMurder Okay let me try to understand your logic. Are you implying that our old fashion incandescent bulbs are causing high and low temperatures, high water and freak storms? You cant spell properly and form complete sentences so I do not understand what point you are trying to make. Please clarify. Also how is it an "impossible" chance that we "may" get mercury poisoning? It's almost laughable trying to attempt a conversation with someone that seems illiterate. You clearly are not educated
@MrMadMurder Thats irrelevent to me. I'm not a psychic. Did you possibly expect no one to comment on your grammer skills? It's your logic and critical thinking you need to work on.
CFL Bulbs are an environmental train wreck in slow motion. 98% of CFL Bulbs are thrown in the trash. When the come to the landfill, they will eventually be crushed or leak over time. Hundreds of millions of light bulbs. It takes 16667 cubic meters of soil to "safely" contain all the mercury in a single CFL. I feel sorry for trash truck crews, they are going to be driving and working in mobile mercury dumps and get all kinds of health issues from CFL bulbs that are not "properly disposed"
Most of your Plain English videos are great but this one is crap! As everyone else has pointed out the arguments are completely flawed, plus an incandescent bulb lasts much longer than you say. Also, many many people have a health problem with fluorescent lighting because of the flickering effect, even non-epileptics. Headaches, distraction, anxiety, hyperactivity to name but a few.
There are so many things wrong with your statements I don't know where to start oh yes mercury. You didn't say how much? Could it be up to five grams! Easy solution to co2 gas plant more trees so they can suck it up and put out oxygen
Just look up the EPA guidelines for disposing of the bulbs or god forbid you drop one on the floor and it breaks you'll need to evacuate your house according to their recommendations.
What does it cost to manufacture a CFL vs and incandescent bulb? What are the long term effect of the mercury in CFL manufacture and in disposal vs the harmless incanescent bulbs when burnt out? AND if you "recycle" CFL's, what amount of coal power is required to recycle them?
Compact Energy Efficent Bulbs Tests with various meters indicate High levels of Radio Frequency, stray voltage. People who wish to argue this fact should first get a RF meter and test it themselves beforehand. Some CFL cause the meters to go off the charts!! - even higher then Cell Phones!!
@divinetriplet AND, the only thing recyclable from CFLs is the glass. They're all made in China, and contain mercury vapor, which if you break one gets released into your house. You must evacuate, and it's gonna be a $2,000 hazardous waste clean up. LED's are much better than CFLs, and are non-toxic,.
A VCR will start instantly and a DVD reorder takes a minute to read the DVD+R and the DVR takes many menues before it can start. Also the new LED LCD TV takes a minute to start also.Not a replacement to the VCR and plase list the problems with CFL lamps dimming, warming up less lightoutput -lumens-candlepower for so called exact replacement bulbs. Yes they save but the savings mignt never be seen unless all items using electric is conserved in usage.Not enough room to list all the problems
There is nothing 'cool' about a mercury filled fluorescent light. Stop this propaganda bullshit. They are unhealthy and create radiation with their constant flickering. And you're waffling about 'climate change too'? Now the goverment are telling us what lights we are allowed to use. This patronizing video is one of the worst I have ever seen and heard. Go back to sleep slave.
Please explain in plain english the personal health risks present and well as the enviromental hazard theese bulbs present if you should break one. And they will be broken because well... shit happens. They will go to landfills and be broken by other trash dumped on them. They probobly will be broken long before the landfill when they get thrown into that big trash masher truck that picks up your trash. I think the risks the CFL's present far outweigh their advantages.
I broke a CFL the other day.. it fell onto a carpet (yikes) and smashed. I did the three things you're not supposed to do. I disposed of the broken fragments i could see with my hands, I vacuumed the area within 15 minutes, and began the clean-up within probably 5 minutes. Theres probably little doubt i Inhaled the mercury vapor.. and that was 10 days ago. So far all the fingers on my right hand are swollen, but my hearts BPM and Pressure are ok. Why didn't they just go straight to LED?
@CaptainCheq Never vacuum a broken CFL or use a broom to clean it up. You'll just disperse the mercury around more. Wear latex gloves and use duct tape to pick up any of the broken pieces.
@CaptainCheq -- My siblings and I played with mercury all the time as kids. Let it flow through our fingers, etc. Today we're all successful, happy, healthy people in our 40s.
if you keep saying "COOL" COOL COOL you'll start to annoy people and get sent to stay in your room. The thumbs up was enough of a signal. Otherwise reasonable video.
The advantage of an incandescent bulb is SIMPLICITY. There's not much that goes to make one work and there's not much that goes wrong with them.
A better way to improve OVERALL efficiency (both for the end user and at the power grid) of household lighting is to find ways to make incandescent bulbs more efficient, which is possible if new filament compositions and configurations can be figured out.
In the end, people look at what I consider marketing aspects of CFLs: low wattage with equivalent light and long life. But, people don't understand what's needed to achieve these factors in the real world and the possibility that some of the goals may not be met satisfactorily to satisfy other criteria, such as lower cost to purchase.
In addition, there can also be unintended consequences with a higher complexity system achieving a result that was also achieved with a simpler system.
And, remember, just because you buy a CFL from a brand name, it doesn't necessarily mean you have a CFL that was designed properly. Usually, better indicators of a well-designed CFL will be a more robust design and parts and a higher retail cost to account for those factors.
The problem with this: how can most people actually tell the difference? It would be too easy to say "buy the higher cost light" as a manufacturer can claim a superior CFL at a higher price when it's the same cheap CFL.
In addition, high levels of harmonic distortion on the power grid will unnecessarily stress power line equipment, which increases the risk of SERVICE OUTAGES when said equipment fails from excessive power line noise. The cost of power may also INCREASE to account for the extra wear and tear on power grid equipment and labor costs to provide for the service as a result of widespread use of cheap, poorly designed CFLs.
5. One problem with widespread CFL use is high level of power grid noise.
The majority of CFLs made for home use, including name brands, are NOISY. The claimed efficiency may not be realized because high harmonic distortion causes power grid energy losses!
In addition, a typical CFL uses lots of power on start-up; up to twice the nominal power consumption rating (reactive power).
The solution: use HPF (High Power Factor) CFLs, but you still need to make sure you get one that's designed right.
4. The life estimates are optimistic and assumes, more or less, perfect power all the time.
Most CFLs you can buy at a retail store are woefully under-designed and don't tolerate much in the way of power line anomalies that occur in the real world during use, such as surges, brown outs and black outs. These events will shorten the effective life of a CFL, including brand names like GE, Philips, Sylvania, etc. When this occurs, you're spending more money to replace lights sooner than expected.
3. The VCR analogy is an emotional appeal and is glib. It's a sloppy oversimplification that doesn't address all of the advantages and disadvantages in real world use of CFLs and incandescent lamps.
Plus, trying to put down a person using an incandescent by bring up whether or not he's still using a VCR is condescending and confrontational, which is a great way to push a person AWAY from your point of view in an argument.
It's also irrelevant; the topic is LIGHTING, not A/V technology.
1. What does it cost to make those CFLs, not just in money but in energy as well?
2. There are reports of people suffering from migraine headaches from the strobe effect that CFLs may generate in their operation. Doctors may actually recommend sufferers to get rid of CFLs and, usually, the migraine problem abates. In that case, it would be most inconsiderate to suggest an incandescent user of being stuck in the past when there is a medical reason for it.
1: CFL contain MERCURY. HIGHLY TOXIC. Released in manufacture, accidental breakage, and disposal.
2: Use LEDs! A fraction of the Energy of CFLs, No Dangerous Chemicals, Low Voltage, Safe.
3: About CO2...
A: Safe Organic Chemical.
B: Global Warming - It's the SUN, STUPID. and temperatures haven't risen in two decades. Anything that reflects light reflects light (duh?) Clouds (and CO2) do more COOLING than WARMING.
Why are CFL's bad; CFLs Contain Plastics Some CFLs Contain Promethium (a radioactive element) Higher Shipping Costs (all are made in china) Weigh More 98% Are Made In China (Longer Distance to Consumer) Contain Circuits (Heavy metals) Use More Energy To Manufacture Require Recycling Produce Ultra-Violet Light Waves CFLs Contain Mercury
lmao yea.. sure are.. for the folks out there that cant get there hands on a MH or HPS bulb.. even if they do get a good bulb a ballast is a tuff one to find too haha
i still like cfl lights tho.. very cheep and only takes about 3 to 6 to get a the job done haha..well until veg is done then HPS flower FTW!
This guy is great and I agree with being more friendly to our Earth. However, C02 is not a pollutant! Please try to find anyone who can refute these points:
1. There is no proof , or even strong evidence to suggest, that the earth is in a long term warming cycle. There is no model that predicts with any accuracy whatsoever the temperature trends.
2. C02 is about 3% of greenhouse gas.
3. Man produces about 3% of CO2. These two are multiplicative, i.e., manmade CO2 is .a 0.01% factor.
All Bogus several test by Engineers have confirmed in northern homes using CFL's increases your carbon foot print. You loose the heating effect of the old school bulb so your furnace cycles more when using cfl's. You Save $10 a month in electric but spend $50 more a month on gas heating not to mention more Carbon output. CFL's are built in china cheaper than an incandscents here. More profit for GE and Phillips. Lobbiest at work again other Electrical Engineers like myself agree. Bad CRI's to.
ok, this sounds dubious as obviously light bulbs (actually called lamps in the industry ) are not a cost effective way to heat ? where are you getting this information and is it peer reviewed .
CFL fittings are a potential health risks as they produce UV radiation by ionising low-pressure mercury vapour with a phosphore coating inside the tube which absorbs the UV that converts it into light. This mercury emission wavelength is in the dangerous C range and unshielded exposure of the skin or eyes can be hazardous while it is also believed to supress the immune system and trigger all sorts of nuerological symptoms.
Poor quality luminance is a strain on the eyesight and it is also believed to cause migranes linked to an invisible flicker at a higher frequency of 120 Hz compared to normal 50Hz.
If anyone is experiencing problems with CFL syndrome then as an engineer would highly recommend trying some advanced LED light bulb therapy as they are non-toxic, much brighter, consume less energy and last a bit longer, but not compatible with dimmer switches unless you purchase the adapted more expensive version.
There is an indepth research paper on the hazards writen by Dr Magda Havas, BSc. PhD. and Dr Tom Hutchinson, BSc. PhD. FRSC for anyone interested in the health implications google - electrical pollution . com CFL pdf
The VCR of light bulbs? The VCR instantly turns NO waiting 30 seconds to read a DVD+R. And my vcr can be set with turning it on like DVR, ect ect. LED lights NOT CFL .CFL problems with timers dimmers actual light output waiting time for the CFL to warm up.You nead a 100watt CFL replacement in the place of a 60 watt light. And yes i have many CFL`s It took many to get the correct exact replacement for Incandesent bulbs.
OLD CFLs have wait times to warm up, I have over 19 CFLs in my home and none take any time to warm up at all. I've found that the 60 watt equivalent CFLs are actually brighter than an incandescent 60 watt so I've bought 40 watt equivalent to replace the last of the 60 watt bulbs that were in my home. You obviously haven't bought any CFLs recently.
Ok here goes ... Have you visually noticed and used a light meter to measure the lumens-candlepower like I have ? I really should make a youtube. Have now about 20 CFL`s of the brands PGE of Calif recomendeds and disounted. Have been using CFL for over 20 years.All my in use CFL`s are about to 1 to 3 years oldThe 14watt CFL now my my PC is using 16 watts acording to my watt meter.What brand do you have ?
I bought 40 watt equivalent CFLs to replace 60 watt incandescent bulbs because the 60 watt equivalent CFLs were too bright, so yeah, I noticed a visual difference. I don't really care what a light meter would tell me because I know how much light I need in a room. I think all the CFLs I have are GE and Philips.
1 star for this video being misleading propaganda. CFL lights contain chemicles that simply aren't going to be disposed of properly. This guys takes all of 1 second mentioning that.
CFL lights are expensive as hell. The light they produce is inferior. Like all florescents, they take awhile to warm up to their lighting potential and turning them on and off without this warm up drastically reduces their lifespan, which means more and more of those chemicles not being disposed of properly.
I tried one of these CFL bulbs but did not like the light they emit. They have a cold icky feeling. When I went to replace this back to a good ol' fashion bulb, the CFL broke right above my head. I'll ad it broke pretty easily. Now I'm poisoned with mercury etc... just because I was changing a light bulb. These things are a little to dangerous for such a common household item.
Greetings all. I'm a conservative republican. I hereby admonish my conservative peers for a knee-jerk reaction to CFL's We all know how much energy they save. The point that mercury is in them ? In MUCH LARGER AMOUNTS, mercury is and has been in every flourescent bulb since it's invention ! Exactly where did all those spent bulbs go when they croaked ? IN THE LANDFILLS is where ! CFL's have much less mercury in them than a standard long tube bulb.
any money you may save with and expensive cfl bulb, you will loose if you break it.....just look up the clean up directions to deal with these mercury loaded bulbs.
Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes and place them in the glass jar or plastic bag.
Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.
4. Clean-up Steps for Clothing, Bedding, etc.: If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the clothing or bedding should be discarded. Do not wash such clothing or bedding because mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
You can, however, wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to the mercury vapor from a broken CFL,
such as the clothing you happened to be wearing when you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal.
Immediately place all cleanup materials outdoors in a trash container or protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing clean-up materials. Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states prohibit such trash disposal and require that broken and unbroken mercury-containing bulbs be taken to a local recycling center.
oh yes these light bulbs are great. a real energy saver. especialy once you spend all that saved engery and then some in the middle of winter airing out your house.
And now that we know the man made globalwarming thing has been proven a hoax. I do not see the need in forcing the dangerous bulbs on people.
freedom of choice...you know "Freedom"
I know the libs hate freedom. peskie humans running around with out controls on them. how are we to get our utopian state without control eh comrads
also, global warming a hoax? very much no. CO2 and Methane have risen 36% and 148% respectively since the mid 1700's. the greenhouse effect was theorized and proven in 1824. The effects of our emissions have been tested, confirmed, and confirmed again.
and lastly, what do liberals have to do with anything? the issue of global warming is based on our world heating up to a point of no return. for the well being of future generations
hey treehugger glad you like them. I am just glad you know how to read.
Libs have everything to do with this as this is a leftwing agenda. Oh by the way those stats you are giving are completely bogus. just Google search or YouTube search "hacked global warming emails".
Looks like the wheels are about to come off your eco-Nazi scam.
You can keep your "cfl" what a load of crap in the pants. What they dont tell you is that they will not dim properly, & that they really dont last as long as they claim. The ones i tried burned out allready & the old ones that were in BEFORE i tried the
So what works inst cool, but a bulb that contains mercury is? LED lights are fucking expensive. The CFL doesn't last nearly as long as they say, speaking ive been using them for years and they keep going out in a shorter time than those "uncool" incandescent lights.
TheDuvalMilitia 3 weeks ago
@leelefever - hey dude, I guess now would be the best time to get rid of this vid. I'm sure you've had to read the studies or watch the vids on the dirty energy that comes from CFLs.
nosajresarf 3 weeks ago
Apparently CFL are banned now because of the mercury
Baam12123 1 month ago
i like to change light bulbs. i like incandescent. flourescent sucks.
poiiihy 3 months ago
the lamp next to me is a circline florescent. i live in a motel.
poiiihy 3 months ago
BUY INCANDESANTS NOW. The Idiots in washington have banned their sale as of Jan 2012 no 100 watters
Jan 2013 no 75's or 60s
Jan 2014 and the rest are gone.
I see a big black market coming.
People don't want the poison bomb CFLS
Checkerholic 4 months ago
60 cents a bulb for real bulb's----BS I pay less than $1 for a pack of 4
$4 for 1 CFL ok. Now some math 13 real bulbs =$3.25 for the same length of time the CFL cost me 75 cents more. Power use is 25% less. Lower bills? not for long If you think the utiliities are gonna take a revenue hit your way wrong. Electricity prices will rise. Sorry but global warming BS is just that BS.
CFLS don't work well in cold areas (under 50deg) Also burst into flames unexpectedly...House fire and.savings gone
Checkerholic 4 months ago
You use your crappy mercury spaghetti light. Which also don't turn on on time, and I'll use my old fashioned incandescent light thats been working fine since 1879.
The government didn't ban vinyl, vcr's or cassettes. Why is it the governments business as to what lightbulb we use? I'm perfectly happy with paying a whopping $2.00 more a month for my lighting choice. Stop telling us what we can and can't use in our own home.
ryster2220 5 months ago
mercury is very bad! but i like playing with it xD hahah
hristijank2 5 months ago
I couldn't stand CFLs because of their horrible light spectrum that they work in. However there are some with cool full spectrum . They are more expensive but are much more tolerable. Look for 5000k or higher spectrum CFLs. Alot of times they don't say but they are coming on the market more and more. Mine are 6500k and are good for me. LED tech is coming along too.
evilfreethinker 7 months ago
@evilfreethinker The 6500K you are talking about is the color temperature. 6500K means cool white (a blue tone) while 2700K is the warmest color you will normally find on a CFL.
I agree with what youre saying about the newer full spectrum and non-flickering CFLs though.
Agget 5 months ago
Fuck this hippy ass hole and his fucking cfl light bulb,by the way I still do watch movies on my fucking VCR you tree hugging fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
52DODGEM37 7 months ago
@52DODGEM37
I hope you are trolling because you sound realky, really stupid.
jddeitz2000 5 months ago
I agree that we sould save electricity, but they are toxic due to the mercury..so we burn less coal but we pollute with mercury, and the light is inferior, and finally they only save when they are left on and take about 3 min to get warmed up to illumin to their rated wattage. they really are not that good, but we have a law that says in 2012 this will be all we can use...why can't LED's work?
bruce454 7 months ago
CFLs have come a long way? Umm, nope. They havent gone anywhere. They have been made pretty much exactly the same for decades.
320bit 8 months ago
CO2 is not a pollutant, Dumbass. Change religions. Al Gore is a fraud.
wrjamescom 8 months ago 4
@wrjamescom Well, its debateable I suppose. Its not really a pollutant, but it is a greenhouse gas after all so it can contribute to "global warming". Or as I like to call it, global freezing. We had the coldest winter ever last year. While Canada was said to have the warmest summer ever.
320bit 8 months ago
@320bit CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but even if we were to quadruple it, it would still be an insignificant trace gas. Water vapor make up very nearly all of the earth's greenhouse gas. Water also transports massive amounts of energy, from the surface and radiates much of it back into space when it condenses. And water also makes the earth more reflective or less, depending on relevant things like solar radiation. The CO2 is entirely irrelevant.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
Learn the fallacy of CFLs by watching our video on CFLs and grid vs off-grid applications.It may be an eye-opener for you :D
CFCCENERGY 8 months ago
ok- thanks, good to know...
robotgrass 8 months ago
I don't use those CFL bulbs because they interfere with wireless devices in your home.
DZEyoyo123 8 months ago
Excuse me eco-hippie drone, but CO2 isn't pollution. Mercury vapor, now that's pollution. Second, maybe if there weren't so many bans and restrictions on new nuclear power stations we wouldn't have to burn as much coal. A light buld that needs time to warm up, AWSOME! If you're under the impressions that CFLs will somehow save you money, consider that an CFL costs 10 times as much as a flourescent bulb. But hey, don't let annoying things like facts get in the way. The truth, in plain english.
K20ej88 8 months ago 2
@K20ej88 Well said! This crackpot in the video is an ignorant follower of the pseudoscience religious dogma of frauds. Having said that, I switched almost all my lights to CFLs a couple of years ago simply because I happen to like them. My power isn't as stable as it is in most places and so incandescent bulbs blow out in my home frequently. Plus I can use 4 CFLs with the same power cost as one incandescent. But I absolutely oppose the crackpots telling people they have to switch.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
@wrjamescom If you're dead set on blowing your money on light bulbs, at least go for the LEDs. They are more efficient than CFLs, and they also last longer. They are a bit pricier than CFLs, but then again they don't need time to warm up, and don't contain poisonous gasses.
K20ej88 8 months ago
@K20ej88 Can you sell me some that put out the light equivalent to a 100 watt incandescent bulb? Yes, they are far more efficient, but they are still way too impractical for lighting a home. You'd have to have dozens of them in every fixture. I'm not ready to spend more lighting the house than the house cost. :)
wrjamescom 8 months ago
@K20ej88 Are you saying you want more nuclear power plants? Do you understand WHY we dont want to use nuclear power? Chernobyl anyone? Nuclear power isnt stable, and if something goes wrong, then we are all fucked. While its a clean power source, its not clean when it blows up. I for one would rather burn coal than take the risk of having the whole world become a nuclear wasteland cuz some dumbass like you wanted all nuclear power plants.
320bit 8 months ago
@320bit Yes. Nuclear yeilds 70% of the power in this country, and produces no pollution. Using a 40 year old reactor built in SOVIET RUSSIA as a case against nuclear power is borderline insipid, if not outright stupid. If something goes wrong, modern reactors have a litany of failsafes/ backup measures to prevent dissasters. Current legistation, written by the same type of people who make videos like this, prohibits the construction of newer- safer-and cleaner reactors. Who's the dumbass now?
K20ej88 8 months ago
@320bit Oh come on! Chernobyl was a pitiful design. Modern reactors are very safe. In the USA more people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in nuclear power plant accidents.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
@wrjamescom That doesnt change that fact that nuclear reactors are still, and always will be unstable. Thats what a nuclear reaction basically is. They have to be watched very closely at all times. Also, did you not hear on the news recently about Japans nuclear reactor explosion? They are NOT safe. And thats why we need to get rid of them. Nuclear power is not a good power source.
320bit 8 months ago
@320bit Do you actually know anything about how the reactors work? Or do you just parrot the hippie ludite activists' lines? Those reactors in Japan are old and poor designs and even more poorly planned given the local geology. Modern designs are impossible to melt down. Of all the power sources we have, nuclear is by far the safest, the least polluting, the most reliable and has the least impact on the environment. The only partial exception to that is hydroelectric.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
@320bit Hydroelectric is pretty safe and reliable, once built. But there are limits on where we can put them, and they have large environmental impact. Wind and solar are both jokes unless and until exponential advances in power storage are made. Hydrogen is totally useless, as it takes more energy to produce the fuel than the fuel yields. There's little left except fossil fuels.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
@K20ej88 @frsupermoon Heavy levels of derp in BOTH top comments. It's amazing how anti-science some people are.
dlewis1498 2 months ago
1 out of 5 compact fluorescent bulbs die prematurely because the internal circuit faults.... add that to the 'savings'...
robotgrass 8 months ago
@robotgrass They only die prematurely if they are operated "base up".
Wunderdogg 8 months ago
But CFL bulbs can cause radio interference with wireless devices, plus they contain toxic mercury which, if it drops and breaks, you will be breathing in toxic vapor. No thank you, I'll stick with Thomas Edison.
n310ea 8 months ago
Yea i know this but my dumb parents dont get it
NightmareCrab 8 months ago in playlist ...in plain english
Yeah I DO watch movies with VCR
MrGiantenemycrab 8 months ago
danger0usknowledge 8 months ago
@danger0usknowledge ROTFLMAO! Gore was and is more highly invested in Big Oil than George Bush ever was. Gore campaigned bragging about his family's tobacco farms. People hate Gore because he's a fraud, a crooked politician, a liar, and an idiot who peddles his pseudoscience religion and because he's a two-bit hypocrite.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
danger0usknowledge 8 months ago
@danger0usknowledge Under our constitutional republic, the president is not elected by the people. The popular vote is irrelevant. Gore clearly lost the election, and his hired Chicago election riggers failed to fix it. They tried to disenfranchise all the voters in Florida by tying it up until the state's electors wouldn't be counted. The USSC simply rejected that scam. How many recounts does it take? Gore lost. Get used to it and learn some new parrot lines.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
@wrjamescom You missed my point completely which is to be expected.
"Under our constitutional republic, the president..." LOLOLOL
That's what I like about conservatives. They refuse to
accept the tyranny of reality... so they change it...after it happens.
They lie.
You didn't like the point I was making so you throw up (literally) this !@#&%.
What would conservative reactionaries do if what happened
to Bush in 2000 happened to Obama in 08?
We all know the answer to that one.
danger0usknowledge 8 months ago
@danger0usknowledge What? Bush was elected in 2000, Obama was elected in 2008. So that did happen. But does either of those socialist big government, lying sacks of sewage have to do with conservatives? If you are suggesting that both wings of the two faced republicrat party are the same, and that either would whine and pitch fits if they lost a close election, or that either would lie cheat or steal to rig an election if they could, I wouldn't argue with that.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
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wrjamescom 8 months ago
@danger0usknowledge I've been voting for conservatives for over two decades and counting. That means I've been voting against all republicrats, and voting instead for write-ins, independents, and 2nd party candidates. I have never and would never vote for any member of the Bush family. I was simply stating that he won the election without regard to the whining of Gore and his parrots.
wrjamescom 8 months ago
Yes, CFLs do contain 5 milligrams of mercury...which is less than the mercury in a piece of tuna sushi.
amarketingguy 8 months ago
Wow is this guy brainwashed...
jmccuen 9 months ago
1:24 says jason O_o thumbs up if you see
Surviverpan580 9 months ago
This video is so ignorant..... It's not just coal!!! Nuclear, natural gas, etc.
craigjonesslipknot5 9 months ago
@RandomConcepts How bout this. Don't worry about what I say to someone else and the factual information I give out. Instead of complaining about what I am saying in your passive tone, go do your own "protesting" since you seem to care about coal-burning so much as to relay your useless information to my point I was trying to make with the other commenter. Coal-burning is a whole other subject that has nothing to do with our comments. Take your friendly banter somewhere else.
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@RandomConcepts I don't give a lot of credibility to the EPA when it comes to certain things, considering the fact that they stated CFLs should be double bagged before disposal, yet the Maine Department of Environmental Protection study of 2008 warned that plastic bags are the WORST CHOICE as vapors well above safe levels leach through the plastic. But even a person that uses basic logic would be in favor or the MDEP's way to properly dispose of CFLs. Anything else you want to add my friend?
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@RandomConcepts If you would have read ALL of my comments, not just the ones in the linked comment section, you would have understood that I am not "protesting". I'm just simply stating that if they want to do a ban to "protect" the environment, banning incandecents instead of CFLs is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. I was also stating through my other comments that they have no right to tell me what bulbs to put in my house. And I agree with your quote from the EPA, however,
frsupermoon 10 months ago
Ok CC you are way too liberal on this one. A. We don't have any real proof of global warming & B. CFL are full of Mercury! They cause more pollution then the normal light bulbs.
josephfrazier 10 months ago
Why so many dislikes?
ApathetSyndrome 10 months ago
lol i put one in a week ago, it's already out
oJKBo 10 months ago 2
2:46 the LED bulb does not have that problem.
LEDSECTION 10 months ago
CFLs and LEDs are awesome, incandescent sucks
Dell0304 11 months ago
@Dell0304 enjoy your mercury poisening. I suggest you watch the vid called The AntiTerroririst On Seeing the Light by theactiterrorist on his channel.
frsupermoon 10 months ago 4
@frsupermoon They contain less than 1.5mg of mercury. That's not enough to poison you.
Enjoy your wasted energy and non-natural light.
Dell0304 10 months ago
@Dell0304 incorrect, up to 25mg of mercury in 1 bulb. Mercury is the second most toxic metal after radio active subtances. 30 thousand pounds of mercury are put into our landfills every year and thats just from the CFL bulbs. The mercury vapors in 1 broken bulb can travel over 200 miles. So now that all CFLs will be mandatory, that means even more toxic mercury to fuck people over and cause more health problems such as kidney failure(since you are not aware how toxic mercury is to the kidneys),
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@Dell0304 and it's been know to cause migranes in people especially adolecents(there goes trying to keep them focused in school since these lights will be mandatory in classrooms), skin irritation, and they suck in lighting. You think just because they say a 26w CFL equals a 100w incandescent that its true? Have you not heard the countless complaints about the irregular lighting and the low light emissions which means people are actually buying more CFLs to use because one bulb for light source
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@Dell0304 just isn't enough? Are also aware of HOW MUCH IT ACTUALLY COSTS to manufacture CFLs? I bet you don't cuz then you would realize that you are actually NOT SAVING, and are instead just eating what the government is telling you. Oh ya these sure sound like "GREEN" products to me, lets see how green they are: Toxic Mercury(Check!), Health problems(Check) EPA -Environmental Protection Agency-Telling me the proper requirements to clean up a broken bulb so no one get harmed from mercury
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@Dell0304 poisening including babies and pets(Check!) Radio Frequency Radiation that causes more side effects(Check!) What else??An International Association for Energy-Efficient Lighting (IAEEL) study conducted in Denmark, explored some carbon footprint factors, but not all, showing it took 1.8 Kwh of electricity to assemble a CFL compared to 0.11 Kwh to assemble an incandescent bulb. That means it took 16 times more energy to produce a CFL.
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@Dell0304 The study did not include the fact that a CFL is much heavier and is more dangerous to handle, and will thus cost more to package, to ship, and to sell. Hows that for doing your research. But like George Carlin once said, "I'm not a very good American because I Like to think for myself." So please go do your homework before you contribute to the problem and ruin the future of your kids that will probably be born with even more health problems than a decade ago.
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@Dell0304 And one last thing, the mercury that ends up in our landfills from broken CFLs, also get absorbed into the soil, and transported into our water system, so hows that for a double wammy. Please do more research into mercury poisoning and electromagnetic radiation symptoms. Now please prove me wrong.
frsupermoon 10 months ago
@frsupermoon
Yeah one bulb, what happens when a whole neighborhood throws out a few bulbs a piece? Now your 1.5mg has gotten a lot bigger hasn't it.
josephfrazier 10 months ago
@josephfrazier Exactly! Thank you! Atleast Someone is thinking!
frsupermoon 9 months ago
@frsupermoon Yes mercury is bad but. here a chose, you live in a Extreme filled Envement with super high and super low temptures with higher water levels and freck storms OR.. you take a almost impossable chance that you may get mercury poisening. I would go for the second one how about you?
MrMadMurder 9 months ago
@MrMadMurder Okay let me try to understand your logic. Are you implying that our old fashion incandescent bulbs are causing high and low temperatures, high water and freak storms? You cant spell properly and form complete sentences so I do not understand what point you are trying to make. Please clarify. Also how is it an "impossible" chance that we "may" get mercury poisoning? It's almost laughable trying to attempt a conversation with someone that seems illiterate. You clearly are not educated
frsupermoon 9 months ago
@frsupermoon Yeah I have a learning disordor with the way I read and write.
MrMadMurder 8 months ago
@MrMadMurder Thats irrelevent to me. I'm not a psychic. Did you possibly expect no one to comment on your grammer skills? It's your logic and critical thinking you need to work on.
frsupermoon 8 months ago
@MrMadMurder On CFL's, global warming or any other environmental issue. AND you can't spell or make sense.
frsupermoon 9 months ago
@frsupermoon Don't forget that extra poisoned plastic we will be throwing into the land fills.
GeekBoy03 5 months ago
CFLs and LEDs are awesome.
Dell0304 11 months ago
Might as well replace every time he says "CFL" with "LED".
AssassinJordi 11 months ago
stop telling me what's cool and what's not
MultiMung 11 months ago
CFL bulbs suck they give off half the light. Fuck nature I wanna see at night
SmashBrosFan19 1 year ago
CFL Bulbs are an environmental train wreck in slow motion. 98% of CFL Bulbs are thrown in the trash. When the come to the landfill, they will eventually be crushed or leak over time. Hundreds of millions of light bulbs. It takes 16667 cubic meters of soil to "safely" contain all the mercury in a single CFL. I feel sorry for trash truck crews, they are going to be driving and working in mobile mercury dumps and get all kinds of health issues from CFL bulbs that are not "properly disposed"
stevenabb 1 year ago
Most of your Plain English videos are great but this one is crap! As everyone else has pointed out the arguments are completely flawed, plus an incandescent bulb lasts much longer than you say. Also, many many people have a health problem with fluorescent lighting because of the flickering effect, even non-epileptics. Headaches, distraction, anxiety, hyperactivity to name but a few.
10katiewatie 1 year ago
I stopped listening at "global warming"
Demingosan 1 year ago
There are so many things wrong with your statements I don't know where to start oh yes mercury. You didn't say how much? Could it be up to five grams! Easy solution to co2 gas plant more trees so they can suck it up and put out oxygen
LifesHardLessons 1 year ago
Just look up the EPA guidelines for disposing of the bulbs or god forbid you drop one on the floor and it breaks you'll need to evacuate your house according to their recommendations.
drumenigma 1 year ago
fuck cfl light bulbs!
MentalReserve 1 year ago
decrease harmless co2 in exchange for increased highly toxic mercury...
Splendid idea!..
TheSkarri 1 year ago
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AlexanderrrL 1 year ago
CFL Lightbubls aren't good for us...
TheTranscribe 1 year ago 12
What does it cost to manufacture a CFL vs and incandescent bulb? What are the long term effect of the mercury in CFL manufacture and in disposal vs the harmless incanescent bulbs when burnt out? AND if you "recycle" CFL's, what amount of coal power is required to recycle them?
This video is propaganda.
yippie21 1 year ago
Compact Energy Efficent Bulbs Tests with various meters indicate High levels of Radio Frequency, stray voltage. People who wish to argue this fact should first get a RF meter and test it themselves beforehand. Some CFL cause the meters to go off the charts!! - even higher then Cell Phones!!
divinetriplet 1 year ago 2
@divinetriplet AND, the only thing recyclable from CFLs is the glass. They're all made in China, and contain mercury vapor, which if you break one gets released into your house. You must evacuate, and it's gonna be a $2,000 hazardous waste clean up. LED's are much better than CFLs, and are non-toxic,.
worryphree 11 months ago
I'll get a CFLbulb now coz I don't want to cause pollution or increase my power bill neither do I want to live in the dark :)
PoisonedShaggy101 1 year ago
A VCR will start instantly and a DVD reorder takes a minute to read the DVD+R and the DVR takes many menues before it can start. Also the new LED LCD TV takes a minute to start also.Not a replacement to the VCR and plase list the problems with CFL lamps dimming, warming up less lightoutput -lumens-candlepower for so called exact replacement bulbs. Yes they save but the savings mignt never be seen unless all items using electric is conserved in usage.Not enough room to list all the problems
trek1200233 1 year ago
There is nothing 'cool' about a mercury filled fluorescent light. Stop this propaganda bullshit. They are unhealthy and create radiation with their constant flickering. And you're waffling about 'climate change too'? Now the goverment are telling us what lights we are allowed to use. This patronizing video is one of the worst I have ever seen and heard. Go back to sleep slave.
TruthSeekingElf 1 year ago 2
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ChannelofLiberty 1 year ago
Burning dead pets and in-laws makes makes perfectly good electricity, thank you very much.
TheLooongcatislooong 1 year ago
they make energy saving incadesents now without mercury,,
therealrockondon 1 year ago
this helped me with my sicence project
ATDelta 1 year ago
Dont give a fuck about the pollution but love the lower bill thing
TheiTacoShow 1 year ago
Even if you just throw out the CFL, you still save mercury from getting into the environment, since burning coal creates huge amounts of the stuff.
MrJordanstech 1 year ago
OK Lee LeFever
Please explain in plain english the personal health risks present and well as the enviromental hazard theese bulbs present if you should break one. And they will be broken because well... shit happens. They will go to landfills and be broken by other trash dumped on them. They probobly will be broken long before the landfill when they get thrown into that big trash masher truck that picks up your trash. I think the risks the CFL's present far outweigh their advantages.
compukenny 1 year ago
damn hippie
Lockemeister 1 year ago
it's like this fucktard is trying to appeal to kids. just goes to show the sort of hippie shitheads are inventing these stupid government policies.
samm1809 1 year ago 2
@samm1809 i couldn't have said it better myself
Lockemeister 1 year ago
we can't buy normal light bolbs !! in belgium it's illeagal to sell them (you can use them not replase them)
slim5782 1 year ago
3:04 my friends is :-) he as over like 200 VCR tape's LOL
TheNathan0308 1 year ago
PACMAN!!??
qvnsq101 1 year ago
I broke a CFL the other day.. it fell onto a carpet (yikes) and smashed. I did the three things you're not supposed to do. I disposed of the broken fragments i could see with my hands, I vacuumed the area within 15 minutes, and began the clean-up within probably 5 minutes. Theres probably little doubt i Inhaled the mercury vapor.. and that was 10 days ago. So far all the fingers on my right hand are swollen, but my hearts BPM and Pressure are ok. Why didn't they just go straight to LED?
CaptainCheq 1 year ago
@CaptainCheq Never vacuum a broken CFL or use a broom to clean it up. You'll just disperse the mercury around more. Wear latex gloves and use duct tape to pick up any of the broken pieces.
wyldcherry 1 year ago
@CaptainCheq -- My siblings and I played with mercury all the time as kids. Let it flow through our fingers, etc. Today we're all successful, happy, healthy people in our 40s.
beggenbe 1 year ago
Fuck mercury, LED FTW
HybridPineapple 1 year ago
@HybridPineapple Plus they are cool looking to nerds!
WeAreTwoDoorsDown 1 year ago
if you keep saying "COOL" COOL COOL you'll start to annoy people and get sent to stay in your room. The thumbs up was enough of a signal. Otherwise reasonable video.
jameshanley40 1 year ago
thank you for showing me this , ima ask my dad to change every light bulb in the house :)
SL1NGSHOT222999 1 year ago
The advantage of an incandescent bulb is SIMPLICITY. There's not much that goes to make one work and there's not much that goes wrong with them.
A better way to improve OVERALL efficiency (both for the end user and at the power grid) of household lighting is to find ways to make incandescent bulbs more efficient, which is possible if new filament compositions and configurations can be figured out.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
In the end, people look at what I consider marketing aspects of CFLs: low wattage with equivalent light and long life. But, people don't understand what's needed to achieve these factors in the real world and the possibility that some of the goals may not be met satisfactorily to satisfy other criteria, such as lower cost to purchase.
In addition, there can also be unintended consequences with a higher complexity system achieving a result that was also achieved with a simpler system.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
And, remember, just because you buy a CFL from a brand name, it doesn't necessarily mean you have a CFL that was designed properly. Usually, better indicators of a well-designed CFL will be a more robust design and parts and a higher retail cost to account for those factors.
The problem with this: how can most people actually tell the difference? It would be too easy to say "buy the higher cost light" as a manufacturer can claim a superior CFL at a higher price when it's the same cheap CFL.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
In addition, high levels of harmonic distortion on the power grid will unnecessarily stress power line equipment, which increases the risk of SERVICE OUTAGES when said equipment fails from excessive power line noise. The cost of power may also INCREASE to account for the extra wear and tear on power grid equipment and labor costs to provide for the service as a result of widespread use of cheap, poorly designed CFLs.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
5. One problem with widespread CFL use is high level of power grid noise.
The majority of CFLs made for home use, including name brands, are NOISY. The claimed efficiency may not be realized because high harmonic distortion causes power grid energy losses!
In addition, a typical CFL uses lots of power on start-up; up to twice the nominal power consumption rating (reactive power).
The solution: use HPF (High Power Factor) CFLs, but you still need to make sure you get one that's designed right.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
4. The life estimates are optimistic and assumes, more or less, perfect power all the time.
Most CFLs you can buy at a retail store are woefully under-designed and don't tolerate much in the way of power line anomalies that occur in the real world during use, such as surges, brown outs and black outs. These events will shorten the effective life of a CFL, including brand names like GE, Philips, Sylvania, etc. When this occurs, you're spending more money to replace lights sooner than expected.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
3. The VCR analogy is an emotional appeal and is glib. It's a sloppy oversimplification that doesn't address all of the advantages and disadvantages in real world use of CFLs and incandescent lamps.
Plus, trying to put down a person using an incandescent by bring up whether or not he's still using a VCR is condescending and confrontational, which is a great way to push a person AWAY from your point of view in an argument.
It's also irrelevant; the topic is LIGHTING, not A/V technology.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
This video is a bunch of bunk.
1. What does it cost to make those CFLs, not just in money but in energy as well?
2. There are reports of people suffering from migraine headaches from the strobe effect that CFLs may generate in their operation. Doctors may actually recommend sufferers to get rid of CFLs and, usually, the migraine problem abates. In that case, it would be most inconsiderate to suggest an incandescent user of being stuck in the past when there is a medical reason for it.
Watcher3223 1 year ago
like someone said, they can vegitate weed
timcrow420 1 year ago
Several Important FACTS:
1: CFL contain MERCURY. HIGHLY TOXIC. Released in manufacture, accidental breakage, and disposal.
2: Use LEDs! A fraction of the Energy of CFLs, No Dangerous Chemicals, Low Voltage, Safe.
3: About CO2...
A: Safe Organic Chemical.
B: Global Warming - It's the SUN, STUPID. and temperatures haven't risen in two decades. Anything that reflects light reflects light (duh?) Clouds (and CO2) do more COOLING than WARMING.
TeslaBlue 1 year ago
am no green fuck but they are not that bad. i just use them cuz they bring down my bill to 80$ :) but i still use a lot of halogen lights
67tr876 1 year ago
is it cost effective and/or environmentally friendly to replace luminescent bulbs when they still work?
and does anyone "hear" have any of those not compact fluorescing bulbs. I have some in my house.
celestialsalamander 1 year ago
erietemperance 1 year ago
CFLs take a while to warm up, then they give off normal light
luckynumber58 1 year ago
and there great for growing weed!
jake42091 1 year ago 2
lmao yea.. sure are.. for the folks out there that cant get there hands on a MH or HPS bulb.. even if they do get a good bulb a ballast is a tuff one to find too haha
i still like cfl lights tho.. very cheep and only takes about 3 to 6 to get a the job done haha..well until veg is done then HPS flower FTW!
ihypno 1 year ago
What's wrong with leds? :(
All I got is led lights... >.>
Because I want to save mone... planet!
And they seem to last forever and beyond.
Jourei91 1 year ago
This guy is great and I agree with being more friendly to our Earth. However, C02 is not a pollutant! Please try to find anyone who can refute these points:
1. There is no proof , or even strong evidence to suggest, that the earth is in a long term warming cycle. There is no model that predicts with any accuracy whatsoever the temperature trends.
2. C02 is about 3% of greenhouse gas.
3. Man produces about 3% of CO2. These two are multiplicative, i.e., manmade CO2 is .a 0.01% factor.
Government4People 1 year ago
Wake up people CFL's are a joke and alot of you people are failing for it. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!
ForAlexJones 1 year ago 2
says a spanner who listens to Alex Jones ,what is it with you conspiracy nuts ?! you wake up .
sausage4mash 1 year ago
just use candels or Light Emitting Diodes (LED) both are better
Ticomfreak 2 years ago
All Bogus several test by Engineers have confirmed in northern homes using CFL's increases your carbon foot print. You loose the heating effect of the old school bulb so your furnace cycles more when using cfl's. You Save $10 a month in electric but spend $50 more a month on gas heating not to mention more Carbon output. CFL's are built in china cheaper than an incandscents here. More profit for GE and Phillips. Lobbiest at work again other Electrical Engineers like myself agree. Bad CRI's to.
RU469NO 2 years ago
@RU469NO
Conversely in hot countries you would use even less electricity correct?
b0b0maj0 1 year ago
ok, this sounds dubious as obviously light bulbs (actually called lamps in the industry ) are not a cost effective way to heat ? where are you getting this information and is it peer reviewed .
sausage4mash 1 year ago
CFL fittings are a potential health risks as they produce UV radiation by ionising low-pressure mercury vapour with a phosphore coating inside the tube which absorbs the UV that converts it into light. This mercury emission wavelength is in the dangerous C range and unshielded exposure of the skin or eyes can be hazardous while it is also believed to supress the immune system and trigger all sorts of nuerological symptoms.
TBC...
Woodie2009UK 2 years ago
Poor quality luminance is a strain on the eyesight and it is also believed to cause migranes linked to an invisible flicker at a higher frequency of 120 Hz compared to normal 50Hz.
If anyone is experiencing problems with CFL syndrome then as an engineer would highly recommend trying some advanced LED light bulb therapy as they are non-toxic, much brighter, consume less energy and last a bit longer, but not compatible with dimmer switches unless you purchase the adapted more expensive version.
Woodie2009UK 2 years ago
There is an indepth research paper on the hazards writen by Dr Magda Havas, BSc. PhD. and Dr Tom Hutchinson, BSc. PhD. FRSC for anyone interested in the health implications google - electrical pollution . com CFL pdf
Woodie2009UK 2 years ago
The VCR of light bulbs? The VCR instantly turns NO waiting 30 seconds to read a DVD+R. And my vcr can be set with turning it on like DVR, ect ect. LED lights NOT CFL .CFL problems with timers dimmers actual light output waiting time for the CFL to warm up.You nead a 100watt CFL replacement in the place of a 60 watt light. And yes i have many CFL`s It took many to get the correct exact replacement for Incandesent bulbs.
trek1200233 2 years ago
OLD CFLs have wait times to warm up, I have over 19 CFLs in my home and none take any time to warm up at all. I've found that the 60 watt equivalent CFLs are actually brighter than an incandescent 60 watt so I've bought 40 watt equivalent to replace the last of the 60 watt bulbs that were in my home. You obviously haven't bought any CFLs recently.
idontcare80 2 years ago
Ok here goes ... Have you visually noticed and used a light meter to measure the lumens-candlepower like I have ? I really should make a youtube. Have now about 20 CFL`s of the brands PGE of Calif recomendeds and disounted. Have been using CFL for over 20 years.All my in use CFL`s are about to 1 to 3 years oldThe 14watt CFL now my my PC is using 16 watts acording to my watt meter.What brand do you have ?
trek1200233 2 years ago
I bought 40 watt equivalent CFLs to replace 60 watt incandescent bulbs because the 60 watt equivalent CFLs were too bright, so yeah, I noticed a visual difference. I don't really care what a light meter would tell me because I know how much light I need in a room. I think all the CFLs I have are GE and Philips.
idontcare80 2 years ago
No you need a 100 watt replacement for a 100 watt bulb.
SilverlinerOV50 2 years ago
Propaganda
Zevl12 2 years ago
1 star for this video being misleading propaganda. CFL lights contain chemicles that simply aren't going to be disposed of properly. This guys takes all of 1 second mentioning that.
CFL lights are expensive as hell. The light they produce is inferior. Like all florescents, they take awhile to warm up to their lighting potential and turning them on and off without this warm up drastically reduces their lifespan, which means more and more of those chemicles not being disposed of properly.
Vlaxitov 2 years ago
I tried one of these CFL bulbs but did not like the light they emit. They have a cold icky feeling. When I went to replace this back to a good ol' fashion bulb, the CFL broke right above my head. I'll ad it broke pretty easily. Now I'm poisoned with mercury etc... just because I was changing a light bulb. These things are a little to dangerous for such a common household item.
heckfricker 2 years ago
holy shit!!!! thisis amazing he says it in plain english!!!! no bad accents nothing!!!! amazing
squirlboy006 2 years ago
Last word "bobe" was BONE
Sorry....
zhhyr 2 years ago
And btw, I bought 10 CFL's at Shop Rite
a few months ago for 88 cents each.
Sylvanias made in China.
A good snag for sure.
How many of you libs have tossed a long tube
flourescent tube in the general garbage ?
WDF do you think CFL's are any different ???
Ya really need to chew on another bobe...
zhhyr 2 years ago
zhhyr 2 years ago
any money you may save with and expensive cfl bulb, you will loose if you break it.....just look up the clean up directions to deal with these mercury loaded bulbs.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
....then don't break it. I've never broken a light bulb before, it's not that difficult to avoid
zaqw1111 2 years ago
oh yes....you are right.
I am the only one who has ever broken a light bulb.
how crazy. to think others may break these.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
So if you do break it? The mercury is very, very small in amount. No hazmat team required, just basic scrubbing tools.
I bet u could wipe it up with Oxi-Clean :D
zaqw1111 2 years ago
Because CFLs contain a small amount of mercury, EPA recommends the following clean-up and disposal guidelines:
1. Before Clean-up: Ventilate the Room
Have people and pets leave the room, and don't let anyone walk through the breakage area on their way out.
Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.
2. Clean-Up Steps for Hard Surfaces
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes and place them in the glass jar or plastic bag.
Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
3. Clean-up Steps for Carpeting or Rug:
Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister), and put the bag or vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
4. Clean-up Steps for Clothing, Bedding, etc.: If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the clothing or bedding should be discarded. Do not wash such clothing or bedding because mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
You can, however, wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to the mercury vapor from a broken CFL,
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
such as the clothing you happened to be wearing when you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
5. Disposal of Clean-up Materials
Immediately place all cleanup materials outdoors in a trash container or protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing clean-up materials. Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states prohibit such trash disposal and require that broken and unbroken mercury-containing bulbs be taken to a local recycling center.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
6. Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rug: Ventilate the Room During and After Vacuuming
The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system and open a window prior to vacuuming.
Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
oh yes these light bulbs are great. a real energy saver. especialy once you spend all that saved engery and then some in the middle of winter airing out your house.
And now that we know the man made globalwarming thing has been proven a hoax. I do not see the need in forcing the dangerous bulbs on people.
freedom of choice...you know "Freedom"
I know the libs hate freedom. peskie humans running around with out controls on them. how are we to get our utopian state without control eh comrads
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
nice copy and paste skills, very talented indeed
also, global warming a hoax? very much no. CO2 and Methane have risen 36% and 148% respectively since the mid 1700's. the greenhouse effect was theorized and proven in 1824. The effects of our emissions have been tested, confirmed, and confirmed again.
and lastly, what do liberals have to do with anything? the issue of global warming is based on our world heating up to a point of no return. for the well being of future generations
zaqw1111 2 years ago
hey treehugger glad you like them. I am just glad you know how to read.
Libs have everything to do with this as this is a leftwing agenda. Oh by the way those stats you are giving are completely bogus. just Google search or YouTube search "hacked global warming emails".
Looks like the wheels are about to come off your eco-Nazi scam.
so long Sucker.
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
yup hacked global warming emails, never got em.
i got a spam folder
also, im not democratic. i voted for john mccain
zaqw1111 2 years ago
you have not looked hard enough. as this is in the media right now.
I would post a link if youtube allowed but they don't
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
yeah you can
just use (dot) instead of the (.)
zaqw1111 2 years ago
ok will do since you are so lazy
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
This is the problem with libs...unless you put it on msnbc or other lib media they don't know about it.
wo wo wo. wattsupwiththat(.)com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/
or
h t t p : / / blogs().telegraph(.)co(.)uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
if it envolves work and effort Libs don't do it.....come to think of it, i guess that is why the like wealth redistribution and socialism
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
also search "climate-gate"
aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 2 years ago
You can keep your "cfl" what a load of crap in the pants. What they dont tell you is that they will not dim properly, & that they really dont last as long as they claim. The ones i tried burned out allready & the old ones that were in BEFORE i tried the