Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

["Robert L Bass" <Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Don Klipstein" wrote:
>
> <Along with several more pages of tirading on mercury>
>
>  Compared to incandescents, in USA on average CFLs
> actually reduce mining of mercury-containing materials
> and transfering mercury to the environment.  This is
> because about half of all electricity produced in the USA
> is obtained by burning coal, a major source of mercury
> pollution.

That is correct but if you're trying to convince Bobby Green, forget it.  He
began with the premises that CFL's are bad and refuses to see anything that
proves otherwise.  That "dining room table" phrase comes to mind.

>  LEDs are better once they become sufficiently
> cost-effective and cost-effectively improve upon CFLs
> in energy efficiency and do so in versions with similarly
> warm color high color rendering index light.  Until then,
> mercury is a good reason to use CFLs instead of
> incandescents.

True.  All of the evidence supports that.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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