Environmental lightbulbs

[Stephanie]

I still think that it is scary that they contain mercury.

[SPark]

Yes, but consider one bulb with a little mercury, compared to the thirty or forty bulbs you might go through in the same time period! And of course the savings in electricity add up as well. I still prefer CFLs myself. So long as you properly dispose of them, they’re still much more environmentally friendly.

Or you can look into the new LED bulbs! They’re hard to find and expensive, but they’re getting more common, and they use even less electricity than CFLs, and I’m pretty sure also have no mercury.

[RiDuvessa]

SPark wrote:

Yes, but consider one bulb with a little mercury, compared to the thirty or forty bulbs you might go through in the same time period! And of course the savings in electricity add up as well. I still prefer CFLs myself. So long as you properly dispose of them, they’re still much more environmentally friendly.

Or you can look into the new LED bulbs! They’re hard to find and expensive, but they’re getting more common, and they use even less electricity than CFLs, and I’m pretty sure also have no mercury.

Those LED bulbs are really weird looking! But SPark is right. They are also supposed to last as long as the CFLs, and the CFL last for a couple of years.

[Jennifer]

The LED technology is getting better. Once they become standard and less expensive, they will be a GREAT replacement for household bulbs… they use next to no energy and last eons.

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[Rose]

So what’s in LEDs?

I feel awful now, there isn’t anything on the packages of CFLs that I have bought. I never thought to reaserch them. I didn’t know that you couldn’t just throw them out. As far as I know though I’ve only thrown out one. But, still just that one is bad enough. 🙁

[dragonmedley]

Romeodanny wrote:

So what’s in LEDs?

I feel awful now, there isn’t anything on the packages of CFLs that I have bought. I never thought to reaserch them. I didn’t know that you couldn’t just throw them out. As far as I know though I’ve only thrown out one. But, still just that one is bad enough. 🙁

Same here. I’m gonna tell my mom; she uses them.

As for the LED (Light Emitting Diode), it’s a diode in there. Very cheap on electricity, basically the best for savings and the environment.

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[siberakh1]

I don’t mind LEDs, but I hate the LED christmas lights I’ve seen. The colors do not look like traditional christmas lights (at least none of the ones in any of the stores near me). The shade of blue reminds me of black lights and drives my eyes buggy! We got them last year for our tree and after a few days (we even tried a dimmer switch to lessen their intensity), we gave up, took everything off the tree, took the LED lights off, and redecorated the tree with traditional lights.

The flourescent bulbs are great! 650W* is the rating considered ‘perfect sunlight’ for photography 😀 Very nice for painting inside after the sun goes down.

*will check the number when I get home… photomagazine is there

[Tina]

I agree with the blue christmas lights, the color bothers my eyes as well, like they cant actually see them, I dont mind the white ones, which looks more blue to me, but I did see some super expencive ones last year that were more traditional in color, they called them warm white.

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