As the incandescent bad has begun to reach people’s consciousness there are some interesting articles appearing.
In the American Thinker on 19 April 2011 Edmund Kontonski has written “The CFL Fraud” identifying a number of issues and includes links to a number of stories where CFLi have caused domestic fires. This is an ongoing proble in the USA as there is twice as much curent in lamps running at 120 V as opposed to 230V in Europe. There are a lot more recessed and enclosed fittings all of which create conditions for overheating. He goes on to address Mercury, slow start up, light loss over life, heat replacement factor, UV emissions, waste and recycling, incompatibility with dimmers, basically all the stuff we have been talking about for the last several years!
In the Wall Street Journal on January 19, 20ll Rebecca Smith has written “New Lightbulbs Lose a Little Shine” discussing the failure of the subsides for CFLi to met the requirements set out to deliver energy savings.
Both articles are worth reading as are some of the discussions attached to them
Kevan Shaw April 20, 2011
