This is a Nobel prize you would be buying. LED light bulbs are many years late on the market, but still always a worthy recipient of everybody's hard-earned dollars (assuming the price isn't $9)
I'm not sure why people don't realize T8 fluorescent tubes are more efficient, cost less over a lifetime, have a longer lifetime for constant on uses, and are less material waste when it comes time to recycle them. Even if you break a tube the mercury exposure level is lower than eating a tuna fish sandwich.
Fluorescent tubes can impact you more than just through mercury exposure. Melatonin suppression being one of the more detrimental effects if your night time exposure is not on a warmer spectrum (2700k). When you're around them all the time you notice pretty quickly that they can really impact your mood and eyes, at least in my experience. Agree with your sentiment, but I would never put them in my home if I could help it.
These were 3.97 each in Montgomery County, MD, when I picked them up earlier last week. The prices have now gone up to 5.97 each. I've installed 6 of them, and they are just as, if not brighter than my 60w bulbs I had.
For those of you living in Mass. I just had the folks from http://www.masssave.com/ over for a home energy audit yesterday and they replaced almost all the bulbs in my house with these and the twisties for free. Only fixtures left are the odd sized bulbs that wouldn't be a part of this deal anyway.
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More energy efficient and don't need warm up time to brighten.
Fluorescent tubes can impact you more than just through mercury exposure. Melatonin suppression being one of the more detrimental effects if your night time exposure is not on a warmer spectrum (2700k). When you're around them all the time you notice pretty quickly that they can really impact your mood and eyes, at least in my experience. Agree with your sentiment, but I would never put them in my home if I could help it.
Thank you!