Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs)

Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs. I recently saw an ad on TV where the environmental police would arrest you for various environmental infractions. Using incandescent lightbulbs was one of the offenses. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) are the curly little fluorescent lightbulbs that are - or so we are told - good for the environment. Incandescent lightbulbs are the regular kind that look like the kind Thomas Edison invented. Now I made a pretty bold assertion that CFLs may not be as good for the environment as environmentalists and government regulations would have us believe. Take a look at this short video and you'll see where I'm coming from.



That's right. Although power consumption is less (or so they promise - I never noticed a difference in my power bill when I installed CFLs), CFLs have mercury that needs a hazmat response if one of them breaks. And what about the ones that don't break and end up in the landfill because people don't know how to dispose of them or it's too difficult to find a recycling center for CFLs or someone just doesn't care? That is not good for the environment!!!

The health implications from dirty electricity are massive and far reaching. CFLs are friends of neither the environment nor health.

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