California looks to ban traditional light bulbs

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by redforever

Problem is, there are people who will have health problems due to fluorescent lighting. They have a negative effect on many people.

Yup, I hate CFLs. The problem is that they are gas plasma lights, and you get spikes of energy at certain wavelengths that are hard on your eyes, and probably other senses as well. Our eyes are built to absorb the sunlight's spectrum of light, not CFLs.

Halogen... have low luminous efficiency. Bad choice.

I agree with the above, xenom or sodium are a better choice.

[V]

Sodium?? You're not talking about HPS are you? Not as a replacement for halogen. Actually, not as a replacement for anything, if you ask me. I'm surprised we still use HPS for our streetlighting, considering the changeover to flat glass everything.

[sclitheroe]

I'm slowly switching over CFL's, and in my opinion, the new breed of bulbs is quite good. I'm using GE 60W equivalents right now, which are quite compact, and I'm quite pleased with them.

One of the best things about them is if you have an aquarium, you can use a cheap incadescent hood, instead of being bent over for a decent flourescent setup (flourescent hoods are stupid expensive for what you get) (well, OK, the whole hobby is a bit stupid expensive, but what can you do...)

-Scott

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Cube Inmate

Nope. But maybe this on a smaller scale. Tell people they can't do something, and they'll try their hardest to do it. Tell people that you'll reward them for changing their behaviour, and a lot of them will do it.



Now would that be laws regarding noxious pollutants such as lead, carbon monoxide, and oxides of sulfur and nitrogen? Or laws regarding energy usage? I've yet to see any laws that prohibit a person from driving energy-wasting V-10 SUVs to the grocery store.

Well you are right, they are laws for pollutants.

For vehicle energy usage, they have the "gas guzzler" tax, to do as you say and encourage people to make the choice themselves. Thats working out really well for them obviously

[mykalberta]

It depends, I wouldnt mind if Alberta did it so long as they did it in response to say a GE building a bulb factory here in Alberta.

Like they say, if you dont like the rules - LEAVE, its a free country.

MYK

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by fotze

I bought the whole house some of them a while back then I found myself wanting to slit my wrists, then I realized the house was dark and gloomy and depressing, we replaced most of them back to some juicey 100 Watters.

Did I just buy the wrong ones?

Yes, you should buy the Noma Full Spectrum Compact Flourescent bulbs. They seem to be the closest to natural light. They may take a couple seconds to get to full "bloom" but they are great lights. I even have the 150 watt equivalent bulbs in my outside fixtures with no problems. They light up fine even when it is -30 C.