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No need to do that, you can still use CFL and they are not being phased out.
by carlob 13y ago
No need to do that, you can still use CFL and they are not being phased out.
- maw 13y agoWhy would anybody want to use CFL? Is it more for the migraines or for how they make everything look sickly?
- ars 13y agoCFLs don't flicker anymore, and if color accuracy is what you want stay away from LEDs since all the efficient ones are worse than CFLs. You can make LEDs with good color accuracy but you lose efficiency making them worse than equivalent CFLs.
- outworlder 13y agoThere are several types of fluorescent lighting, with different color temperatures. Granted, their spectra is not the same as sunlight, but you can mix more than one type for a more pleasant effect.
- code_duck 13y agoWe enjoy smelling the flame retardant fumes offgassing from the electronics. Bonus when one burns out in a small cloud of acrid plastic smoke.
- _red 13y agoWhat if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases?
- outworlder 13y agoWhich are not released unless you break them. And even then, just open the windows for a couple of minutes.
- MiguelHudnandez 13y agoIt's a little more complicated than opening a window if you want to be as safe as possible. But you don't want to fuck around with mercury. http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl
- nitrogen 13y agoPeople used to play with mercury as a toy, even drink it just to watch it pass through their digestive system. It's a very good thing people don't do that stuff anymore, but there are probably far worse things than mercury hiding in household items and chemicals.
- ars 13y ago> What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases? Then buy CFLs? They help keep toxic mercury out of the air from burning coal. Do you seriously believe CFLs emit any mercury, or are you trolling?
- od2m 13y agoWhen broken, absolutely. http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
- ars 13y agoI've broken one bulb in a decade. But by being an early adopter and using them for more than a decade I've prevented hundreds of times as much mercury from entering the atmosphere.
- pilom 13y agoOne CFL bulb has less mercury in it than a can of tuna: http://www.lamprecycle.org/public/images/docs/LD+A%20August%202009.pdf http://www.lamprecycle.org/public/images/docs/LD+A%20August%...
- mmagin 13y agoIncorrect. That article is comparing the estimated exposure from a broken CFL with the exposure from eating Albacore[1] tuna. The actual mercury content in the CFL is obviously much greater. [1] And not all canned tuna is Albacore. The stuff sold as "light" tuna is typically lower mercury content (don't have a source handy at the moment.)