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Letters from Environmental Building News
August 1, 2007
CFLs Aren't Perfect
Thank you for your recent article on light bulb bans [see EBN Vol. 16, No. 4]. It was well documented and had good points about the value of improving incandescent lamps rather than banning them. Incandescent lamps still have their place in some situations, and it would make no sense to replace every incandescent bulb with a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), since CFLs don’t like to be switched on and off. If CFLs don’t get three to five hours of operation at a time, they will burn out within a year, causing customers to doubt their energy-saving potential. In addition, we have to specially dispose of the lamps, and they require more energy to produce than incandescent lamps....
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