On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:02:47 +0000 (UTC), (Don Klipstein)
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In , zzzz wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:44:04 +0000 (UTC), (Don Klipstein)
wrote:

In , zzzzzzzzzz
wrote:

SNIP to here

...and you were going to save $.05 per day.

I figure more like 30 cents per day for my apartment. In most houses,
the savings are more.

Your numbers before were $.35 vs. $.30.

I re-estimated hours per week for each lamp since I did not commit that
or my previous savings estimate figure to memory.

Even at $.30/day, that's half the cost of an unreadable newspaper;
trivial. At that "cost" there is no reason to put up with *ugly*.

SNIP from here

Except I don't find mine ugly at all.

You like looking at harsh, twisty, lights. What can I say?

For one thing, CFLs come in a
variety of color temperatures. And various brands, wattage ranges,
general types, and tubing diameters have trends of slightly more purplish
or more greenish color. Because of this, I can get the color that I want.

....and we're supposed to buy them all and throw away the ones we don't like?
BTW, I've never seen one I like the light from. I do have several T10s (?)
that I use for shop light. Different application, though.

And the spiral shape does not appear ugly to me.

It certainly does in my fixtures. They're intended for unfrosted bulbs.
Twisties look like hell.

Anyway, the shape of
a spiral CFL is not visible in many fixtures.

It would be in every one of mine, other than the cans, where they aren't
useable, anyway.

Where the bare spiral
tubing is visible, it is usually uncomfortably bright to spend much time
looking at anyway.

60W incandescents don't have that problem.