Quote:
|
QUOTE=GurnBlanston;175913 I don't have, will not have and have refused to have flourescent lighting because I've never believed they were healthy.
|
Well if you live in the USA, and you are somewhat normal, fluorescent lighting has primarily been used in kitchen lighting, garage and shop lighting, basement lighting, so it is difficult to imagine no exposure to these very very popular lights??
Quote:
|
They were primarily used for offices and like commercial structures until they brought them into homes.
|
Yeah they were brought into homes about 60 years ago and at one time produced more lighting nationwide than incandescents.
Quote:
|
Even then, they weren't the primary lighting. Now someone wants to make them the mainstay of our lighting choice. I find this unacceptable.
|
I think they want this because they last longer and require less power.
Quote:
|
Normally I wouldn't give a shit except incandescents are dissappearing off of the shelves (and not by consumers but by the merchants themselves), and I'm left with no real choice.
|
Now I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm going to assume that 99.9% of the retail outlets try to sell merchandise that people show a demand in...not the opposite way around where they force people to buy things they don't want. You always have a choice.
Quote:
|
Believing that saving the atmosphere at the cost of our ground water is insane. It's no real solution.
|
So in order to have lighting that lasts longer and uses less electricity, and the fact that in order to deal with the mercury we will need to recycle used CFL's, you think we are incapable of this and all the ground water will be contaminated? Like I said, we've been dealing with tube fluorescents for decades, and if we know we should recycle them, then why is this a big issue today?
Quote:
|
Let me decide how I want to save energy. Lighting isn't even that big an energy consumer compared to other systems in the house (mechanical, entertainment, etc)
|
Well...lighting represents as much as 25% of your homes power consumption. So if you multiply this by the 120 million homes and 7 million businesses, I'd say it's a pretty damned big energy consumer...