>Mike just got me worried so I looked it up. Scare-mongering. See the below:
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070518-cfls-bulbs.htmlI know. The problem is that there is already mercury around us and every single broken bulb will add. It will never get lost. This is the same problem with any fluorescent tube.
An other problem is that you get I minimal poison here and a minimal poison there. Scientists test each poison but not the combination we live in.
CFLs are best as straight forward lights - they need a high energy for start up and will run with less. Commonly a single start need 45 minutes to compensate against a normal bulb. They are flickering - doe to there electronics with a higher frequency then a normal fluorescent tube but they are. And the bigest problem to me is that they only send a small spectrum of light (What they share with LEDs).
We do not want to now the overall energy ratio, where we have to take the energy for production into account. I do not believe that we save much energy on this.
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