This all may be replaced soon with ESL bulbs. I know they have been talking
about this for along time. Time will see if it is vapourware, like so many
other tech announcements.

http://www.vu1.com/technology/technology.htm


"Robert L Bass" wrote in message
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That is correct but if you're trying to convince Bobby Green, forget it.
He began with the premises that CFL's are bad and refuses to see anything
that proves otherwise. That "dining room table" phrase comes to mind.


True. All of the evidence supports that.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass



"Don Klipstein" wrote:

Along with several more pages of tirading on mercury

Compared to incandescents, in USA on average CFLs
actually reduce mining of mercury-containing materials
and transfering mercury to the environment. This is
because about half of all electricity produced in the USA
is obtained by burning coal, a major source of mercury
pollution.

LEDs are better once they become sufficiently
cost-effective and cost-effectively improve upon CFLs
in energy efficiency and do so in versions with similarly
warm color high color rendering index light. Until then,
mercury is a good reason to use CFLs instead of
incandescents.