Comments on: Wal-Mart Aims To Sell 100 Million Compact Fluorescents In One Year

By: 888

888 — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:19:45 +0000

#33
Good. Im counting on you. Tell your friends and family!

By: Smartalix

Smartalix — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:31:11 +0000

26,

The ironic thing is that WalMart is implementing Solid-state lighting in its facilitiees now. They predict they’ll save 10% of their energy budget (they spend a little over 60% of their dollar on power) by switching lighted cases from flourescents to LEDs.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:38:16 +0000

I thing the regular bulbs are less susceptible to ‘sparkout’ than before.

By: cooltidbits

cooltidbits — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:28:23 +0000

Well, when any of my current bulbs burn out, I’ll start replacing them with these-especially since now they are so cheap.
Problem is, I can’t remember when I last bought a light bulb. It has to have been at least two years ago. Is it just me or are regular light bulbs lasting a lot longer than they used to? I moved into my current place a year and a half ago and haven’t replaced one yet.

By: Olo Baggins of Bywater

Olo Baggins of Bywater — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:53:31 +0000

32…I’m sitting under a CFL as I type this, and I’m quite sensitive to flicker. I can’t detect any. It seems obvious from the array of experiences here that there are quality and manufacturing differences between brands.

By: 888

888 — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:07:10 +0000

I only have one pair of eyes, they won’t grow again if theyre broken…
I value my own eyes much higher than yours of course, so forgive me, if I stick to those ass-cheap light bulbs that don’t create 60hz strobo effect on my eyes like CFLs do.., but YOU should use them CFLs, its good for the rest of us

By: joshua

joshua — Sat, 05 May 2007 06:47:16 +0000

The local supermarket has had these bulbs for 10 for 10.00 for almost a year. I have them in all my light fixtures and they never buzz, put off no heat, and are heading into their 3rd year of service without a burn out.
I seem to have about a 7.00 a month reduction in my power bill(but, my bill has always fluctuated due to my weird hours), since installing them.
My biggest gripe is that they look so strange in the bathroom light bar.

By: Wobbler

Wobbler — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:58:27 +0000

I wonder how much of the national debt is due to the trade imbalance created by Wal*Mart “buying” so much merchandise from China?

By: Awake

Awake — Sat, 05 May 2007 04:51:12 +0000

Walmart sucks, for all the well known reasons.
What I find most entertaining is how consistent posts from some people are:
- There is no such thing as global warming-
- CF light bulbs are a scam that save no energy, are inconvenient and pollute.
- Hybrid cars consume more energy than they save.
- There is no proof of evolution.
- If we don’t fight them there they will come over here.
- Freon has nothing to do with the ozone hole
- If you don’t support the government’s policies, you don’t support our troops
- All immigrants are hardened criminals, and all real Americans are faultless god loving servants of humanity.
- Using the word Nigger on a couch label is hilarious.
- Gays are all evil, straight people are all good.
- and so on, and so on, and so on…

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sat, 05 May 2007 04:33:32 +0000

I thought you guys hated Walmart. Now they’re a hero?

By: Ron Larson

Ron Larson — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:06:38 +0000

None of my CF bulbs have ever burned out… going on 5 years for the older ones now. Perhaps there are some quality issues for these bulbs that have not been realized yet?

I recommend that over at CNET we create a consumer rteview of the brands and models we buy. Then given a couple of years some trends should appear to guide future buying decisions.

By: KVolk

KVolk — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:37:15 +0000

So if Walmart is in the story headline does it automatically make some of you hate the story or is just the Walmart name thing? I thought it would be interesting if DU posted a headline that had Walmart in the headline but was not in the story and what would be peoples reactions…..yes it is a slow Friday night in case you were wondering.

By: B. Dog

B. Dog — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:56:52 +0000

Why bother? LEDs will be the way of the future.

In other energy news, there’s an interesting tale about
Lake Kivu.

By: Zuke

Zuke — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:27:51 +0000

Man, this is REALLY OLD news that I knew I’d read before. NY Times reported on this back in January 2007. SHEESH.

http://tinyurl.com/yruehn

I’m all for this. I agree with #13 DOUGLASS TRUTH above.

By: BubbaRay

BubbaRay — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:43:01 +0000

Just to add to the mess here — I switched 1.5 years ago, haven’t had to replace a single bulb yet, no buzzing, and my elec. bill has gone down by about 15%. As for the mercury etc. bulb disposal, try to get rid of 15 old computers in an ‘environmental’ way. Almost enough metal to build a new lawn mower.

You will pardon me if I just wait for solid state lighting.
Comment by Improbus — 5/4/2007 @ 1:18 pm

Quick, I can’t wait!