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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by shakran
As with many government sponsored or mandated "environmental" programs, such as ethanol, IMO CFL's suck. Their light is lousy, dimmer, harsher, and flickery, they have mercury and other crap that you don't want to touch or to get into the environment, and they don't last nearly as long as advertised.
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I don't like the colors they emit. I've tried the "warmer" styles but they don't seem to work all that well for me.
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Originally Posted by MSD
Even if it only lasts the same amount of time as an incandescent, the amount of mercury put into the environment from burning coal to light the incandescent is larger than the amount in a CFL.
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So then isn't it a matter of spreading the mercury? Or also there's double mercury? I'm not sure what the measurement is...
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