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Default Over-claimed efficiency of CFL energy saving light bulbs

In article .com,
gmw wrote:
These misleading claims must be understood and ruled out. CFLs are not
yet ready to replace conventional bulbs. The calculated efficiency
gains are greatly exaggerated.


Advertising hype is nothing new.

But if you look at it another way, it's going to cost you *at least* three
times as much in electricity to get the same light output from a
conventional bulb as from a CFL.

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