Compact flourescents:- They're plugging these quite hard now, even giving them away in B&Q, lower wattage, same output blah blah. But they omitted to tell you about the horrendous power factor of these things, as low as 0.45
So although your leccy meter will spin less, the power company will have to generate more and therefore put the unit cost UP to compensate, this will come straight back to the consumer and your bill will probably end up the same
and polution created probably wont drop either.Why dont someone do their homework BEFORE trying to change the world to see if it actually makes sense. You still cant dim them properly either, accidentally putting one in a dimmer socket is a good way to start a fire! And they chuck out a lot of RF noise too and contain mercury.
As to cleaning up the world...
If you were charged with the task of cleaning this mess up, surely it would make most sense to clean up the biggest polluters first? i.e. China and so on. Why pick on the UK and make it seem as though we are wrecking the planet? On a globe or map, the UK is a tiny spot no bigger than a fingernail but apparently, we need to reduce our emissions so much that we cant have plasma tv's, we cant afford petrol anymore, we have to build houses that need to only take crap CFL's(see above) and even if we had an industry we probably couldnt use it due to our 'massive' pollution output.
If they sorted out our immigration and tightened up on our border controls, there wouldn't be as many people, therefore less polution and we could appear greener
I think the whole CFL thing is a false start, it needs some serious research doing, soon.
I'm going to lock myself in the cupboard under the stairs now to reduce my emmissions
Dave
