Comment 52600

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted December 03, 2010 at 11:47:19

I filled my house with CFL bulbs and I find them to be a scam. I have had to replace more CFL more often than I ever did with incandescent. I suspect that CFL can offer real savings in applications where you leave the lights on all of the time (hallways in apartment buildings, in office buildings etc), but that they perform horrendously in applications where you only turn the lights on for a few minutes at a time - maybe even an hour at a time - in bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathrooms etc. They take forever to "warm up" and I suspect that all of the ones that I have had to toss have failed because of the ballasts getting worn out from too many cycles - not the bulb itself dying. It seems like an environmental disaster to build and dispose of CFL versus incandescent. If you are diligent about only having lights on in the room you occupy then I think that from a resource standpoint you are better off sticking to incandescent - maybe the "long life" ones. --sorry for the only somewhat on topic rant.

I vote down for offensiveness and up for humour. I cast no votes based on my level of agreement.

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