Comments on: Light Bulbs and Mercury http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/01/light-bulbs-and-mercury/ The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Russ http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/01/light-bulbs-and-mercury/#comment-316 Tue, 01 May 2007 14:19:28 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/light-bulbs-and-mercury/#comment-316 We tried CFLs at our house and ran into several problems. They will not work with dimmers and they totally disrupted our X10 light control system. We have been living in our house for 25 years and when the children went off to college we modified how we use the newly available space, often putting light switches in inconvenient locations. We now use X10 controllers to switch on and control the light levels. But, with CFLs in the control circuit X10 controllers do not work.

I agree, high intensity LEDs have high potential. We now own several high intensity LED flashlights. Good light, with long battery life make them very handy. When traveling I used to take portable clip on incandescent light, because my old eyes needed more light then the hotel CFLs could provide. I now use a battery powered LED reading light.

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