CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps), as you've shown here, have a longer rated life than most equivalent incandescent lamps giving the same amount of visible light. They generally use less power, though at a higher purchase price.
On the downside, CFLs contain mercury, like all fluorescent lamps, which complicates their disposal. But a CFL can save over US $30 in electricity costs over the lamp's life time compared to an incandescent lamp and save 2,000 times its own weight in greenhouse gases. That outweighs the negatives, doesn't it?
CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps), as you've shown here, have a longer rated life than most equivalent incandescent lamps giving the same amount of visible light. They generally use less power, though at a higher purchase price.
On the downside, CFLs contain mercury, like all fluorescent lamps, which complicates their disposal. But a CFL can save over US $30 in electricity costs over the lamp's life time compared to an incandescent lamp and save 2,000 times its own weight in greenhouse gases. That outweighs the negatives, doesn't it?
i sure like to think so.
plus maybe it'd create some more jobs thinking of ways to get rid of the mercury ;)
bahaha.
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On the downside, CFLs contain mercury, like all fluorescent lamps, which complicates their disposal. But a CFL can save over US $30 in electricity costs over the lamp's life time compared to an incandescent lamp and save 2,000 times its own weight in greenhouse gases. That outweighs the negatives, doesn't it?
i sure like to think so.
plus maybe it'd create some more jobs thinking of ways to get rid of the mercury ;)
bahaha.