I’m aware of LED lighting, but the technology isn’t ready for prime time. I’m excited about the prospects, but, like hydrogen cars it’s probably a ways away, and it’s going to be spendy.

Regardless of what lights are more effecient, some people just like incandescents. Banning Edison’s light bulb is an absolutely crazy, tyrannical move by our federal government, and CFLs, the current replacement contain potentially hazardous mercury. It’s crazy!

Correction #2. Original CFL’s were equipped with a run away circuit. This means the the bulb quit functioning, the circuit would continue to refire it until the circuit failed. This is what lead to many fires. UL listed CFL’s must have a protection against runaway’s such as a digital controller (2 fires, no ignition so it stops) or a thermal shut off (circuit hits 150F it shuts off).

Correction #3 (mentioned above). Led household lights solve these issues to an extent. One issue is that LED’s require a DC rather than an AC input. Each LED light you have in your house needs a convector (usually build into the bulb) which drops the efficiency (sightly) and creates some heat. However, some LED bulbs beginning to be shipped are wired so they have 40 LED’s in series, which drops the Voltage per LED to around 3. This in combination with a circuit to only allow the upper (postive or Hot Phase) section of the AC wave to the LED’s create a extremely effiecient and durable technology. LED’s are proved to last at least 100,000 hours when driven properly.

So is there some misinformation above because you went though two websites instead of looking at all possible solution? Yes. Is the information you presented factual, to an extent. But open your mind a little, Incandescent bulbs are extremely inefficient because of the heat they put out. About 90% of the energy used in a standard incandescent bulb is transferred as heat! The effiency of a 60 Watt bulb is only 14.5 Lumins per Watt. The story for CFL isnt much better, only 16 lumins of light per Watt!

LED’s are the clear winner, which is what i use to light my house! 115 lumins per watt!

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What’s to take issue with? We’re presenting facts. The data here comes from GE’s website, and the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (as well as Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection). Would you prefer we swept all this information under the rug and ignored it because you like your CFLs? Great. Use them. That’s the market at work. Know the pros and cons, and buy the product that matches your wants and needs, but *banning* Edison’s light bulb is crazy. Our government has gone crazy over “greenness.” I’d rather not take the risk with CFLs, thank you very much.

You’re thrilled that CFLs save you money on AC in the summer, but have you considered that they may be costing you more natural gas to heat your home in the winter? That particular example of “energy savings” is probably a wash.

http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm

Particularly note Rod Elliotts concerns with the fact that CFLs have a powerfactor of 0.5 and so cause problems with power generation and distribution.