TheFuzzy wrote:
JB,
Want a list? ( CF = "compact flourescent" )
- CFs are incompatible with dimmer switches
- CFs don't come any brighter than 150watt-equivalent
- CFs produce toxic waste when they are made, and when you dispose of them
- CFs won't fit in many covered lamps due to bulk
- CFs fail in cold weather (where cold means "anything less than 55F")
- CFs don't work in Easy Bake ovens
As a Green, I'm actually pretty bitter about the CF law here in California. It's pretty transparently designed to benefit two companies who helped elect our previous governor, and not to conserve energy or help the environment. A real environmental law would have required specific efficiencies, not specific light bulb types.
The dimmer switch thing annoys Geekboy, too. Me, not so much.
Are you cutting diamonds? What do you need more than 150 watts for?
'Tis true, they must go in the Hazardous Waste box with the old batteries and whatever bits croaked in one of the computers lately.
I've only got one lamp a CF doesn't fit into, and the round tube does fit - plus it's a 3-way.
I keep it over 55 in my house, and even in the freezing weather, the porch light comes on, even though it takes it awhile to get up to max brightness.
Yeah well, there is the Easy Bake oven conundrum.
I don't know what the CA law is, the new Fed law (if I remember correctly) just says that a few, commonly used incandescents will no longer be available. You can chuck any alternative you want in your sockets.
