Light bulbs

[FaecDog]

SHIIIIT. I was listening to the radio this morning and found out that the old round light bulbs in your house made by those companies are banned. This is loving ridiculous. Now Obama is manufacturing fifty dollar light bulbs. And better yet, they call them green bulbs, even though they are filled with stuffloving mercury gas. It's probably somewhere on google if you search it.

What the forget, people.

/discuss

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[SeventhSandwich]

>assuming obama is responsible for any of this
>assuming obama put the mercury into the fluorescent bulbs himself
>assuming you're not completely handicapped.
>assuming the money you save on electricity and replacement bulbs doesn't outweigh the replacement bulbs
>assuming obama manufactures stuff himself.

[Blastdown]

I love radio.

[TheArmyGuy]

'Oh no, we, America, are the only country to not agree to a forgetton of enviromental bills accepted throughout the entire world and I don't want to spend 6-7 (not 50) dollars on a lightbulb that actually has an energy-to-light percentage of 80-90% compared to the incandescent 5%'s.'

[Solid]

op is an ignorant 10 year old

[Jubel]

They're not banned from being in homes, they just can't be sold.
This is also really old news, because you can only buy really low wattage incandescent bulbs now. (Like for small lamps and stuff)

[Aide33]

A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light, and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent lamp; some types fit into light fixtures formerly used for incandescent lamps. The lamps use a tube which is curved or folded to fit into the space of an incandescent bulb, and a compact electronic ballast in the base of the lamp.
Compared to general-service incandescent lamps giving the same amount of visible light, CFLs use less power (one fifth to one third) and have a longer rated life (eight to fifteen times). In most countries, a CFL has a higher purchase price than an incandescent lamp, but can save over five times its purchase price in electricity costs over the lamp's lifetime.[2] Like all fluorescent lamps, CFLs contain mercury, which complicates their disposal. In many countries, governments have established recycling schemes for CFLs and glass generally.
CFLs radiate a spectral power distribution that is different from that of incandescent lamps. Improved phosphor formulations have improved the perceived colour of the light emitted by CFLs, such that some sources rate the best "soft white" CFLs as subjectively similar in colour to standard incandescent lamps.[3]

It's energy saving and governments have special disposal procedures.

All fluorescent lights have mercury, unless your school or other public buildings have the old and small round ones why complain?

[MillCzarr]

They're not banned from being in homes, they just can't be sold.
This is also really old news, because you can only buy really low wattage incandescent bulbs now. (Like for small lamps and stuff)

Yeah. That means they will be wiped out of history in 5 or some years for good.

[Tokthree]

It's been that way in EU for years now, energy efficient bulbs are great aside from the fact that they take a while to warm up.
You silly Americans are so far behind it's unreal

[dargereldren]

I just told my mom about this topic and said I wasn't responsible for what was said in this.