On 1/18/2011 1:43 PM, William Robb wrote:
On 18/01/2011 10:46 AM, eckinator wrote:
Yeah. Unfortunately last figure stated for Germany was 89% end up in
household trash. Mercury doesn't react into something harmless in
waste incinerators and cannot be filtered, it goes straight into the
food chain. Politics. You have to wonder.
Ecke
I don't know what the figure would be in Canada, but I suspect higher,
we aren't as environmentally conscious as Europeans tend to be. I have
a hard time believing that a CFL bulb has a smaller carbon footprint
than a hot filament bulb anyway.
The things are made in China and shipped to Canada. I suspect our
enviro laws won't allow them to be made here. They have more toxins in
them, and more materials including electronic circuitry.
But they use less electricity to make uglier light which the power
companies like since they can get away without improving their
infrastructure if they keep consumption down.
Not entirely the Power Co's fault, just try to get more energy
production or long lines though a PUC. It's a nightmare, and you have
to plan decades in advance, because it takes decades to clear the
regulatory hurdles Which would be fine I suppose if between them the
State and Power Co still didn't screw up, sometimes spectacularly.
We have 2 seasons in most of Canada. One season involves heating our
houses, which hot filament bulbs help with fairly efficiently, and a
season where there is so much daylight that we don't use much
artificial light anyway.
CFLs make no sense whatsoever, which I suppose is why they are being
mandated instead of old style light bulbs (which come from Ontario and
are less carbon intensive to build).
Fortunately, LED lights seem to be taking off.
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