Compact Florescent Light Bulbs: The Truth

we used to play with boxes and boxes of those bulbs breaking them when i was a kid.38 and in good health..hmm

one persons experience is not a conclusive scientifict fact. Sorry

how much pollution is generated and how much energy is consumed producing all the components in a cfl compared to a standard light bulb?

And if you stay less then a meter from them you are exposed to electromagnetic radiation

Anywhere you find a vibrating electron, you will find electromagnetic radiation. So, everything on the Earth is a source - even ME!

That might be true, but the diversity of the sources, frequencies, strength and wave shapes are different. The radiation coming our of electronics, WIFI, CELL, electric wires, is not the some as the radiation that is naturally available on earth for millions of years and for which the biological system/kingdom is used to.

My comment was meant to highlight the fact that you should have qualified your original statement - as you have now done. BTW, it is not "might be true", it IS true.

They also do not work with dimmer switch.

Except that you don't change it every 10 years. You change them JUST AS OFTEN as Incandescent bulbs. Independent studies have shown that in normal household use, the average CFL bulb lasts almost exactly the same amount of time as an incandescent.

So they cost 4 times as much, have a TOXIC and easily made-airborne substance in them (mercury powder) put out LOWER lumens (light) than a comparable incandescent, and don't even last any longer than a regular bulb.

CFLs are Snake Oil.

Well I can prove you wrong on that. I've had one in my room for the past 4 years. Still going strong and its used often.