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Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?



This all may be replaced soon with ESL bulbs. I know they have been talking
about this for along time. Time will see if it is vapourware, like so many
other tech announcements.

http://www.vu1.com/technology/technology.htm


"Robert L Bass" <Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>
> True.  All of the evidence supports that.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Robert L Bass
>


> "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.
>>
>>  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.




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