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(OT) Fluorescent Light Bulb Warning.
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Roadie wrote: On May 18, 9:50 pm, wrote: www.newswithviews.com I don't like fluorescent light bulbs.From now on when I go to the food store,I am going to start stocking up on good old G.E.Real Incandescent Light Bulbs,the 60 Watters.I am going to clean off the top shelves in the closets in my house and stack em up in cardboard boxes.When fed govt starts shoving fluorescent light bulbs (so-called light bulbs) down everybodys throats,I will still be wasteing my electricity that I pay for on my good old G.E.Real Incandscent 60 WATT LIGHT BULBS. cuhulin,the Electricity Waster dude.Waste Mo Electricity,you can't take it with you In celebration of Earth Day my local grocery store had GE CFL's on sale for a buck a piece. Couldn't resist the opportunity so I swapped out most of the bulbs. What a difference - because they are so much more efficient they consume 1/4 the energy for an equivalent amount of light from an incandescent bulb. The color temperature is very close to incandescent too. And for SWL's concerned about noise, the only time I pick up any noise from one is to move the radio to within 5 inches of the light. Did you know that even though CFL's contain a very small amount of mercury that they actually release less mercury into the atmosphere than an incandescent. That is possible because much of our power comes from burned coal which releases large amounts of mercury into the air. Indeed if you were to break all of the mercury CFL bulbs the total amount of mercury released including the amount of mercury used in power generation would be far less than that released by incandescent. You can always have a bulb re-cycling program to collect the mercury. The CFL's I have seen do not have a incandescent bulb spectrum but like most florescent bulbs tint toward blue. It would cost more money for the inside bulb coating and also reduce the efficiency of the bulb for a CFL to generate a redder spectrum. What did you pay for the bulbs? Another question is how did you determine that they only disturb the radio from 5 inches away? The problem with this technology is that the power spectrum they broadcast is diverse with more power on some frequencies. You would need a spectrum analyzer to determine this with any certainty. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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