Naturalpath Asks “CFLs — What’s the Deal?”
In this week’s content swap with Naturalpath, we’ve added another article to the Green Life Guide: "Low Energy Light Bulbs: What’s the Deal?" The Naturalpath team has put together an informative Q&A on the issues surrounding compact fluorescent light bulbs that includes answers on the fixtures in which they can be used, the amount of energy you can save with these bulbs, the mercury question, and their strange shape. If you’re not using CFLs in your home lighting fixtures, you’re missing out on an easy, inexpensive and, yes, harmless way to cut your electric bill.
As always, we’re grateful to Naturalpath for sharing their content with us. Don’t forget to look and see which of our blogs posts the NP team has chosen to feature on their site.
And, if you were looking for the second part of NP interview with the authors of Skinny Bitch
July 24th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I know technology is ever changing, but come on…we all know LED’s do not contain Mercury, use less energy than CFL’s and last much longer too. Who is supposed to be “on-top” of the latest and greatest of technologies…Well it obviously isn’t Philips, because they pushed the heck out of their CFL products for LIVE Earth and no mentions of switching a lamp over to an LED which would be the best for our enviornment and energy reduction. “Save the Earth, and replace you fluorescent,CFL or incandescent with an LED!” Thanks- Donna
July 24th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
LEDs also cost 5-10 times as much and are limited in their applications at the moment, mainly task and high density spotlights. CFLs are the practical low-cost energy saving solution today. You can switch your entire house for $100.00 and recoup the cost quickly.
Those of us who have been using CFLs for the last decade will start making the switch to LEDs. At least I am in going to. It will bring better application of the technology and hopefully lower prices so the mass market will embrace them. People in general don’t care if a bulb lasts 1 year, 5 years or 85 years. They will purchase what they perceive to be the easiest on their pocket book when the bulb they have goes out.
With current talks of banning incandescents in several states and the U.S. senate those purchases will go to CFLs. Not to LEDs which are niche items right now and hard to find on many local store shelves. CFLs are readily available, come in formats for every application and are not considered prohbitively expensive. You try convincing someone who makes minimum wage at Walmart why they need to spend $30.00 for one lightbulb. 6 hours of work for a lightbulb.