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Re: [Phys-l] CFLs panned on Slashdot.



The bad news: the utilities have to generate the equivalent of 28 watts (that is, 28 VA of apparent power for you EEs out there) to light that bulb. Until they fix these issues, I'll hold on to my incandescents and carbon arc lamps, thanks."

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rubbish, the utilities already compensate for that using capacitors. Furthermore, the CFLs's P/S technique is the same as that of the P/Ss for computers and UPSs. If the users obeyed the label warnings, they'd get the advertised life. However, do not stock up on CFLs! bc predicts they'll be obsolete in a few years, i.e. about the time the currently in use CFLs die.

bc happy w/ his recessed soffit LED lamps. And unpresciently stocked up!! Two big boxes of CFLs

p.s. considering the incandescent technology is "post" mature (>100 years) and CFLs are nearly cutting edge comparatively, I think they are doing VERY well. Their soon obsolescence by LED is a great example of the acceleration of tech. innovation.


On 2009, Apr 08, , at 15:07, curtis osterhoudt wrote:



http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/08/2125250

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