| Myth #10: Reduced Air and Water Pollution: Part 3. Using CFLs will reduce CO2 emissions because they use less energy. | Fact #10: Intl. Asso. for Energy-Efficient Lighting estimates the energy used to just assemble a CFL = 1.8 Kilowatt hrs; to assemble incandescent = 0.11 Kilowatt hrs. |
| more myths & facts... | |
Source1: “>http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/ Source2: http://www.connexiones.com There is a rapid, emerging shortage of rare earth metals, a primary component used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps – principally phosphors. Phosphors are transition…
From: The Dark Side Of CFLs http://www.greenmuze.com/blogs/guest-bloggers/1031-the-dark-side-of-cfls.html … More than 98% of used CFLs end up in landfills each year. That is 675 million for the year 2007 according to…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_1999_May_3/ai_54562953/ “…Hundreds of people died and thousands more were crippled because they ate seafood contaminated with mercury compounds dumped in Minamata Bay by chemical maker Chisso Corp. in the 1950s…
