Yeah, that light bulb fiasco really ticks me off. All in the name of some weird environmental science where saving a couple of pennies per bulb in energy costs is worth the extra cost to the environment of all that mercury we get to expose our kids to. And we have to pay more for these polluting fluorescents, too.
That said, I get headaches when around fluorescent bulbs too much and have my office lights on as dim as I can get them. Without having incandescent light bulbs to use to get rid of those headaches, do these people think we should all start reverting back to pre-Edison days and start using candles again? Doesn't all that smoke and wax pose health hazards too?
I tried replacing the canned lights in my den once about four years ago with some of these fluorescents just to see if i could put up with them. What surprise I had when I flicked the light switch on and it stayed dark. Huh? It took about five to ten seconds before they got even a little bit bright and a full minute before these bulbs warmed up and actually got to their full brightness. That ended the experiment immediately. What good are light bulbs that don't get fully bright immediately? I'm sure they've improved since my ill-fated experiment and probably get brighter a bit faster but still, they don't hold a candle <g> to incandescent.
Oh Carol, that movie you're thinking of is "An Inconvenient Truth." I wouldn't waste your time on it. The "science" on that is so bogus it might as well have been made by Michael Moore.
