Bright future for the compact fluorescent. (Trees And Things)

Thalia: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 21:14:35 EST

Apparently I'm "blessed" with extraordinary hearing. Or something. I'll have to try the Home Depot bulbs.

Thalia

snwodttam: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 21:03:00 EST

Of all the bulbs in my apartment, these compact fluorescent ones make up the majority (3 of 4). The rest of my lighting fixtures are regular fluorescent lights in unconventional shapes (circular).

Before using the c.f. bulbs I always hated turning

zyxwvutsr: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 20:44:07 EST

I'm curious about which bulbs you found that don't buzz

I checked the bulbs; they do make noise, but it's very quiet. So quiet, in fact, that I had to put my ear less than an inch from the bulb to hear it. You'd have to have

juepucta: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:20:01 EST

Thing is almost all "green" technologies require some sort of investment that makes them seem more expensive at first. The saving comes with time. This applies to light bulbs as well as the way building are, well, built.

So at first at least, when makin

Ozyman: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:42:31 EST

Heating via electricity is not nearly as efficient as heating via gas (primarily due to transmission losses I think). If your house is heated via gas than even that waste heat given off by bulbs is not as efficient as your home furnace. Also mu

Ozyman: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:31:20 EST

All said, its not so much that I care about conservation as much as I'm a cheap bastard.

I always say about my Dad, "He was an environmentalist back when it was just called being cheap."

socky: Re: n:vision

Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:24:24 EST

Other upside: they don't get hot, so if you have floor-standing lamps and cats on the back of sofas, they can make friends. One of our cats loves ours and says hello several times each evening.

coquito: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:59:48 EST

I have a bunch of these at home. My wife's not crazy about them, but she's getting used to it. I think they're great. I have ones that are different "shades" of white. I'm not sure of the technical term, but some are more blue, some are more yellow. In oth

profwhat: Better solutions

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:17:47 EST

Yes, it is stupid for the state to micromanage all consumer decisions, down to the light bulbs we buy. If they want to do some social engineering to promote energy conservation, just make the energy more expensive, and let us (the consumers) figure o

rombuu: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 23:22:07 EST

I bought a bunch (bunch ==6) of CF bulbs. Where they say they are "instant on", well, yeah, if they are already on for a while, yes, they come on right away, but if you come home from a day at work they take a minute or so to come up to full brightne

jwb: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:29:15 EST

I don't get the point of outlawing incandescent bulbs. That is just going to make it a pain in the ass for those of us who either have a legitimate need for the kind of light that an incandescent produces or who just like them and are willing to pay

gameCoder: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:59:30 EST

I'm curious about which bulbs you found that don't buzz. I have the Home Depot ones, the GE ones, and the FEIT ones, and all of them have a very low buzzing sound. I don't notice it immediately, but after about an hour in the same room, it g

Thalia: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:45:59 EST
I'm curious about which bulbs you found that don't buzz. I have the Home Depot ones, the GE ones, and the FEIT ones, and all of them have a very low buzzing sound. I don't notice it immediately, but after about an hour in the same room, it give

port1080: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:10:51 EST
We have some ikea brand CFLs around the house - they're decent and there really isn't any big delay in them coming on (maybe half a second). They aren't quite as nice as old school bulbs, but they use so much less electricity that it's hard to justif

gerrymander: n:vision

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:27:20 EST
So far, I've had moderate success with the n:vision bulbs from Home Depot. I've so far only used them in the bathroom and the always on hallways. Upsides: In the bathroom, the "minute to full brightness" is a feature, not a bug. They're quiet.
Neutral:

shane: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:18:55 EST
Before I found their 60 watt equivalant bulbs I emailed them and asked which ones were equivalant tothe lights that I am used to... they said "it's wastefull to try to light every corner of your house. Send us a layout of your house and we will design a sy

rEvolution inAction: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:43:20 EST
all I noticed was the price.. 50$ for a light bulb..

rombuu: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:36:49 EST
The truly energy conscious consumer will bypass the compact fluorescent and switch to LED lights, where you can get a 60 watt equivalent light from an 8 watt bulb!
Yeah, but they suck at "white" light, or anything in the color spectrum you usual

zyxwvutsr: Re: Bright future for the compact fluorescent.

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:16:16 EST
I have, I think, at least three different types/brands of compact fluorescent bulbs in use at my house. There were comments in the submissions queue about buzzing bulbs, and bulbs that don't turn on immediately, but I've found that those problems are only