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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseffy who wrote (84823)	1/15/2012 1:45:36 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

The only facts that seem to be true in this story. 1. CFL give 70 to 80% less light after many hours of use. No secret there but if you increase one size up to account for this you still have a net energy savings. 2. They and incandesant produce less heat. True but for a house the total heat from incandescent is pretty small. For offices even up north the AC bill is larger than the cooling bill because of the higher interior heat loads.. So for the nation average for all building types the claim is true. 3. Myth of mercury reduction. Some truth there as coal fired plants are becoming rare. But there are other pollutants as well even from natural gas. And the amount of mercury in newer bulbs are so low this is almost a non player. As I said before I do not agree with the forced switch over. For other reasons to include the lack of urgency. But these articles and others with bad facts are not helping. Better to argue on the truth.