GE to Stop Production of the CFL

[roberth]

Now, the industrial giant General Electric is saying farewell to the compact fluorescent light, or CFL. The company said on Monday that it would stop making and selling the bulbs in the United States by the end of the year.

YEA!!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/bu...ulbs.html?_r=0

[UncleDave]

Hallelujah!!!

[sic_semper_tyrannis]

Bout f'n time

[KestrelBike]

Maybe I'm missing out on something: why were these apparently hated so much? The light quality?

[hatidua]

Maybe I'm missing out on something: why were these apparently hated so much? The light quality?

I can't speak for others but the quality of fluorescent light, regardless of which temperature bulb (daylight/warm white deluxe, cool white, etc), is awful. LED's, while still not <yet> nearly the quality of incandescent/halogens, are much more tolerable.

A decade ago, the various bulb companies and enviro-weenies were all pushing CFL's. Now the same people are pushing LED's. It will be interesting to see what bulb technology is being pushed in 2026. While I've converted 90% of the house to LED's for economic reasons, I bought two cases of incandescent spot bulbs for my office - if I have to sit in a room for hours at a time I might as well like how it's lit.

[Ridge]

Maybe I'm missing out on something: why were these apparently hated so much? The light quality?

Full of poisonous chemicals, takes a while to warm up to full brightness, and doesn't cut down on energy use as much as the brighter, longer lasting LED bulb.

What is the amount of mercury in a CFL? I see complaining about toxins in CFLs from people who use that as an excuse to keep buying incandescents, or people who fell for Al Gore's concerns about a minute increase in Co2. How dangerous are having CFL's around compared to reloading for example?

You can't just throw away mercury, it has to be disposed of by legal means, which means you have to pay to dispose of them. Powder you can just burn, primers you can douse in water to make them inert. Lead can be melted down and reused yourself, or sold to a company that will do it.

[roberth]

I don't like them because a - i like incandescent better; b - cfl contains mercury and cannot be easily disposed of; c - liberal environmentalists used the government to attempt to force us to buy them.

[Great-Kazoo]

Maybe I'm missing out on something: why were these apparently hated so much? The light quality?

What roberth said. They were a greenie, carbon footprint scam that will cause more "ecological" damage in the long run than incandescents will .
BUT it made people feel good about them self. Those same folks who CONDEMN BIG OIL, texting their kids while driving around in that lease Escalade.

I don't like them because a - i like incandescent better; b - cfl contains mercury and cannot be easily disposed of; c - liberal environmentalists used the government to attempt to force us to buy them.

[brutal]

Fawk CFL's right in the p*ssy.

So glad affordable LED's are here to stay.

[Aloha_Shooter]

What roberth said. They were a greenie, carbon footprint scam that will cause more "ecological" damage in the long run than incandescents will .
BUT it made people feel good about them self. Those same folks who CONDEMN BIG OIL, texting their kids while driving around in that lease Escalade.

Nah, that crowd would never drive an Escalade. Range Rover, Beemer, or Benz for those yahoos.








To suggest they drive something as plebian as a domestic -- even a Cadilac ... (to be fair, I refuse to buy Government Motors anymore myself but for reasons other than pretensions)