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Plague Boy

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On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:16:38 -0500, "Pete C." wrote:

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-No energy is saved during the heating season

BALONEY. Any heat generated in my house in New England by electric appliances
and lights is FAR more expensive than the heat provided by my oil burning boiler
and hot water baseboards. It's not even remotely close. That's why no homes here
have electric heat. It would be very cheap to install during new construction,
but the operational costs to heat even a small home by electricity here would be
astronomical.

Heh. Technically, I guess OP is right. Energy=Energy. No energy
IS saved by the CFLs.

Of course, you are right that the COST of the energy is quite
different. Heating my house with CFLs instead of NG would
be....frightening.

I don't know what CFLs the OP is referring to; certainly the
older CFLs and the ones showing up in the "$1 Store" show the
drawbacks he mentions. The new ones do not.

The CFLs I have (mostly from Home Despot, "Commercial Electric",
IIRC):

-come on at almost full brightness, even at 60F
-have an agreeable color tone
-have lasted up to 5 years (I have not had one burn out, although
I destroyed one dropping it in a sink full of water, another by
physically breaking it, and one by washing it).
-show no ill effects from being turned on and off many times per
day and only being on short periods

I am very pleased with the newer CFLs. The older ones that don't
work so well, I've put in the closets.

PB