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Default OT CFLs - retrofitting low ESR capacitors


"Trevor Wilson"

**The manufacture of glass, steel and tungsten is a very energy intensive
process.



** OTOH - the amounts used to make one light bulb are tiny and so use tiny
amounts of energy.


Combined with the extremely short life-span of incandescent lamps


** They can last 100 years in low or no use.

They often outlast CFLs in actual service.


and their monsterous inefficiency (Less than 5%) contributes to huge
amounts of CO2.


** ********.


CFLs and LEDs cause far less CO2 to be emitted,



** Per lamp, it is far MORE than an incandecsent.


both in manufacture and in operation over the life of the produc.



** Absolute LIE.

Each CFLs use 50 times time more energy to make, plus a large amount of
poisonous chemical waste and then consume more energy too - if they last
their rated life.

Then they pollute the planet with Mercury and other heavy metal poisons.

No such issues with incandescents.

It is all a massive LIE .




.... Phil