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GregS wrote:
First thing you hear is CFL's, and nothing about regular fluorescent
lamps. which are a dominate lamp in the world. Wonder why !!

Because the average tree hugger doesn't realise they are one and the same
thing when preaching how CFLs will save the planet. And missing the fact
that an 'old fashioned' fluorescent has a separate ballast which can
outlast several tubes while a CFL has it built in so has to be thrown away
complete when it fails.

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