Re: Fluorescent Bulbs Are Known to Zap Domestic Tranquillity; Energy-Savers a Turnoff for Wives

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:463652fe.1689880921@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >FWIW, my N-vision CFL floodlight has begun to take a very long time to
warm
> >up and appears never able to reach its initial brightness level.  Too
bad,
> >because it looked like a real winner at first.  My wife wants it gone
from
> >the kitchen!  I concur.  Slow warmup is really, really annoying when you
> >want to look at something right away.
>
> Take care when you remove it lest you drop and break it. ;)
>
>
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=aa7796aa-e4a5
-4c06-be84-b62dee548fda

I'm beginning to think CFL's are the gypsy moths of the '00's.  Instead of
catching mercury spewing out of smokestacks like we should (along with
carbon) we're distributing toxic mercury all throughout the environment,
hoping it's all going to be properly recycled even thought we know Americans
aren't the best recyclers in the world.  It is pretty bizarre, when you stop
and think about it.  Perhaps the best we can hope for from CFL's is that
they will spur development of better alternatives that don't require
creating mercury vapor in fragile glass tubes in our homes.

--
Bobby G.