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1. My parents do. Like many brown people, they love to save money. These bulbs make saving money easier than spending it.

   While they have greatly improved the whiteness produced by compact fluorescent bulbs, until they get can get the output to be as warm as incandescent bulbs, I’m going to have to pass. Is that terribly bad, or just mildly bad?

   by rishi on August 29 2006, 9:09 pm   #

2. that was an issue for me originally, but i find that if you have them under lamp shades, as i do in my apartment, the light is virtually indistinguishable from incandescent.

   by Matthew on August 29 2006, 9:43 pm   #

3. A (standard) light bulb wastes a lot of energy generating heat (instead of light), so an (obvious) way of making a light bulb more efficent to generate less heat (for same amount of light). So I think you’re going to be disappointed with the lack of warmth…

   by Ryan on August 30 2006, 12:27 am   #

4. We use the fluorescent light bulbs here and I have no problem with it. I prefer the white light then the warm light, it just seems cleaner to me. Only problem I have with the fluorescent lights is you can’t dim them, so for my room the lights flicker from time to time because the light switch is all screwed up.

   by Krishna on August 30 2006, 2:29 am   #

5. Matthew, my parents currently use them in pot lights which does nothing to mask the blue. I think I’d be willing to try them in a shaded lamp.

   Ryan, by warmth, I was referring to the the hue of the light emitted by the bulb. Fluorescent light being much more blue (or colder) than incandescent light.

   Krishna, dimmable fluorescent lights are on the way. These computer controlled ballasts are currently designed (pun not intended) and manufactured for commercial use but I’m sure that will change eventually.

   by rishi on August 30 2006, 2:42 pm   #

6. That kind of warmtm makes more sense. :-)

   Do you think a light shade or something like that would help?

   by Ryan on August 31 2006, 1:14 am   #

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