Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs are manufactured where? Are any produced in the USA?

Question

If so, by what company and in which state? I would like to confirm (yeah or nay), if all CFB's are really manufactured in China. A radio personality recently reported that as we buy more and more CFBs, the Chinese build more coal powered plants to produce the electricity needed to fuel its manufacturing facilities. We all kow that China pays little attention to air quality and global warming. I'm trying do decide if CFB use has a net positive effect on our environment.

I read the answer from Ecolink and looked at the website he mentioned in his post. I didn't see any US "manufacturers" of CFL. The domestic companies listed therein are "distributors." I looked at the listings in the Thomas Register ( http://www.thomasnet.com/nsearch.html?cov=NA&heading=96070073&sa=95901252&navsec=relbox , and found no domestic company involved in the production of consumer CFLs for general use by the public.

Does anyone else know of such a company? If so, please let me know.

Answer 1

With one "savings" comes another headache...these bulbs contain a small amount of mercury. Hmmm, don't hear about this from the Environmentalists do you.
For more info see the Environmental issues section here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent

Alson farther down the page:
"Unfortunately, at this time, many territories do not provide recycling facilities for fluorescent bulbs. As such, many CF bulbs are crushed in landfills, exposing air and water to mercury vapour."

You decide....

Answer 2

this would or received't be a matter of attitude, yet so a techniques as i recognize it ought to in straightforward words appear like that to you because you've been used to seeing gentle placed out from incandescent light fixtures for see you later. you need to 'warmth up' to the gentle output of fluorescents through the years. i trust the colour distinction is by the gases interior fluorescent tubes. i imagine incandescent light fixtures seem a lot hotter in colour temperature, the position fluorescents seem a lot whiter. contained in the precise i'm keen about fluorescent light fixtures - once they launch mercury-loose (HG) variations. i don't like the fairly intense warmth output of halogen bulbs and don't like the inefficiency of incandescent bulbs. on condition that even as is a decrease electricity bill a nasty element?

Answer 3

Almost everywhere in many countries. The net effect of CFL is on consumption of electricity. It consumes 7 times less energy which ultimately will affect production and requirement of electricity which is mostly produced by burning fossil fuels which lead to pollution.

Answer 4

Compact fluorescents actually reduce mercury pollution.

They contain a very tiny amount. Fossil fuels also contain mercury and the amount of mercury released by an incandescent bulb through burning fossil fuels is greater than the amount in a compact fluorescent.

Of course, it's better if you properly dispose of the old bulbs. But no matter what, they reduce mercury pollution.

http://www.cityofberkeley.info/sustainable/Powerplay%20articles/16Powerplay.Mercury.CFL.html

Answer 5

Jinhui from China http://www.jinhui-lighting.com/
Here's the first page of a list of manufactures of compact fluorescent bulbs. Though China is represented on the list, China is not the only place where these bulbs are made.
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=estar_partner_list.showPartnerResults&s_code=ALL&partner_type_id=MANUFACTURER&category_id4=CFL&country_id=ALL&category_id_list=1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6&resultsperpage=20¤t_sort_column=NAME¤t_sort_order=ASC&layout=default

Yuyao from China http://money-detector.chinese-suppliers.com/a_fluorescent_light_kuc-20.htm

Many more sources from China:
http://www.globalsources.com/manufacturers/factories/Compact-Fluorescent-Bulb/20.html

(I HAD NO IDEA!!)