To really fucking hate energy saving lightbulbs?

[DarlingDuck]

Ok I realise it is a good thing that we use them and think we should but I hate the dim flourescent glow, am starting to notice it more now the nights are drawing in and remembering just how much it does my head in.

the delay in coming up to brightness is a problem. Early on I posted some brands that "Which" had tested, some were slow to get bright so I pointed out the one that was fast and some well-known brands that were slow.

I'm a bit that even after pointing out the different shapes and outputs available, and that you can get fast-brightening ones if you buy the right ones, people are still asserting that CFLs are ugly, slow to light, and not bright enough.

I can well believe they've got better, but what are we meant to do, chuck out all our old ones that supposedly have years of use left in them and buy some more? Not very energy-saving.
Why couldn't they just wait till they'd improved before making everyone use the bloody things?

If you want to, you can use the slow-starting ones in fittings that go on and stay on. No need to chuck them out.

For example, porch lamps, hall and landing, and (in my case) table-lamps in living rooms that are on timers (we often go away and like the house to look occupied). With a lamp that will run for 50 hours or more for 10p, you shouldn't allow yourself to get preoccupied with constantly turning them on and off.

Rooms where the light are likely to be turned on and off frequently (e.g. bathrooms) need a quick-starter.

CustardCake

Interesting point. Did you read the Greenpeace links about mercury and lighting?
posted Wed 12-Oct-11 00:05:00

Apparently, we are going to 'run out' of electricty in a few years; power cuts will become the norm (I remember that in the early 70s - loved it!, wouldn't love it now though). We do need to use less electricity, and we do need to change the way we do things and our attitude to power consumption. Luckily, in a way, the utility companies have put the price of gas and electricity so much that we are being forced to re-evaluate our power consumption.

I do use ee bulbs mainly, obviously, but I can still hate them and where I need to be able to acually see what I'm doing I shall continue to use my old 100w bulbs until I've got something better.

Pudden thanks so much!

Perhaps they should get rid of escalators, might go a way towards making people get more excercise too! In Ikea there was a sign up saying the energy used to power one escaltor for a day could power 10 houses for a week, or something along those lines .......

My bio bulbs have just arrived and I'm not sure about them TBH, they give off a kind of bright grey fluorescent light which is still pretty dim, will have to wait until it gets dark to get a real feel for them though.

I get terrible headaches in a dim light and as far as I'm concerned a 100 watt bulb isn't much better than a candle -- I've got 200 watt bulbs in all my main rooms.