"Arny Krueger"

Fallicy #1 - all CFL's are the same.

** No-one said that.

Total red herring anyhow.


Dimmable CFL's are available in enough different wattages to be useful in
a wide variety of applications.


** Shame they are prohibitively more expensive and hard to find.


True that disposal is more critical especially because of the the
mercury. However, I've seen situations where CFL's outlast incadescents by
20:1.


** Non sequitur - most folk have seen the reverse far more often.


They are both primarily made up of glass, which is recylcliable.


** Nice " selecting the evidence " fallacy.


Only surely true in the winter. Even in the winter, space heating
generally comes by a more efficient path that was detailed above.


** More example selecting.

Homes in Australia are mostly all electric.


Clearly not true at all if you are cooling the room, which is true in
maybe 90% of the US in the summer.


** Domestic lighting is only used at night, when a little extra heat is
mostly welcome.

Reducing night time electricity demand by a few percent ( all changing bulbs
to CFLs can manage ) has no effect on coal usage or CO2 production.

There is no overall economic or CO2 advantage to be had by making CFL use
compulsory.

There are serious hazards risks in so doing - particularly home fires
which are notoriously fatal.

Bad idea, dreamt up by ego tripping, greenie ****wits.



......... Phil