Would you help in controlling global warming by switching over from bulbs to CFLs?

Question

If everyone does it, it would help a lot!

Answer 1

yes we should contribute as much as we can although it may be treated like a drop of water to sea, but dont forget that dorps make the sea. I have started partly using CFLs but now I will try to use completely and also motivate peoples to whom i meet. Thanks for thinking globaly.

Answer 2

Indeed. Some people complain about fluorescence light at work place. Most of them can be due to the "Unnatural" light spectrum on the older generation fluorescence lights.

Natural light is the best. It's not a new concept but there are renewed efforts to use more natural light in new buildings.

There are many different CFL in the market. They are different in design, durability and the light spectrum they generate. Some models has spectrum close to natural light or traditional light bulbs. Those are preferred.

Today, CFL is still more pricey than regular light bulb. Even though in the long run it makes economics sense, for individuals, the first step is probably to replace the light bulbs that are used most in the house.

Answer 3

The light from CFLs is much better than the light from office fluorescents.

Mercury in CFLs is a tiny amount. There is more mercury in a thermometer than in 1000 CFLs. CFLs actually reduce mercury pollution, the mercury emitted from combustion of fossil fuels by incandescent bulbs is more than the mercury in the CFL.

CFLs are now down to about $1 in quantity. Join together with your friends and get a big box. Or $1.50 if you go alone.

Answer 4

Why use CFLs when you can buy LED replacements for just about everything. They are expensive at first but they last for about 100,000 hours maybe more. LEDs are slowly replacing everything from head lights to TVs. They consume a minimal amount of energy, and never get warm like an incandescent or CFL may.

Answer 5

By installing CFL bulbs inplace of traditional light bulbs you will prevent approximately 38kg of Co2* being emitted into the environment during the life of the bulb. Co2 is cited as one of the main contributing factors to climate change.

In addition 19% of electricity consumption in the average house is from lighting. Thus by installing CFL bulbs you could easily save 14% off your total electricity bills, and 14% of your Co2 emissions produced by electricity consumption. Each bulb is estimated to save upto £100/$200* over its lifetime (however this is dependant on electricity cost and bulb wattage.)

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Answer 6

Electricity generation from coal is the biggest source of CO2 in the atmosphere. Anything that reduces electricity use from that will help. For anyone that lives in an area that uses coal-produced electricity (eastern US, and the rest of the world, especially China) switching to CFL would be significant.

Answer 7

You may want to consider the mercury content in some of these bulbs. If you break one in your house, the hazardous waste removal costs about $2000.

Answer 8

http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

http://www.junkscience.com


Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming

"The Public Has Been Vastly Misinformed," NCPA's Deming Tells Senate Committee

12/6/2006 5:57:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or [e-mail]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), testified this morning at a special hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing examined climate change and the media. Bellow are excerpts from his prepared remarks.

"In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.

"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

"In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MWP simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick," because of the shape of the temperature graph. "Normally in science, when you have a novel result that appears to overturn previous work, you have to demonstrate why the earlier work was wrong. But the work of Mann and his colleagues was initially accepted uncritically, even though it contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies. Other researchers have since reaffirmed that the Medieval Warm Period was both warm and global in its extent.

"There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed."

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The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D. C. that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. NCPA depends on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations that share our mission. The NCPA accepts no government grants.

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Answer 9

Lol you stupid new yorkers are so hyped over global warming, trust me, only like 10% of all global warming is human caused. It's not like your making a difference anyway, all those people in the south burn their trash lol.

Answer 10

By it would help alot....i dare say you must mean it will help all Americans to lose their creative abilities.

Flourescent lights are.....well.....crap.
The office I work at has flourescent bulbs and it is horrible.....they drain the life out of people.

There are plenty of people who would agree with me too.