In Australia we've replaced most of them already. The new "fluorescents" are fine and you can choose day blue light or warmer shades for night. A friend of mine has started installing LEDs (he has a low cost source) and I suspect that as LED prices drop for the different colour options we'll all happily install them - although the initial cost is higher they last so long that the price per year is going to be a lot lower.
Even if true which I doubt, ... what does that have to do if one breaks in your home... Do you know what happens when you break one in your home...
I see you believe what the special interests errr I mean experts put out... I'm not saying that isn't true but I dont put blind faith in "experts" these days.... Listen, with all this junk science floating around because of special interest everything is suspect to me because they all have an agenda.... Everyone is trying to sell us something. But my point was that what the poster above was trying to say is that if one breaks in your home you and your family will be exposed to mercury, thus your post rebutting his was actually unrelated to his. He wasn't talking about the environment, he was talking about one breaking in his home.
In Europe you can also buy incandescent laps in a hardware store. Apparently, for certain industrial applications fluorescent bulbs are not bright enough. Also from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8367933.stm
Bust one, better call the pros to clean it up: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp But if somebody breaks one in their house, WTF do you care? Too many people on Mother Gia anyway. So force other people to use `em to cut down on the mercury you get from outside.
Buy solar powered http://www.bogolight.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BOGO-BUYONESN2&Show=TechSpecs They're good.
I can buy an 8 pack of 60w incandescent bulbs at the local Home Depot for under $2.50 the cheapest CFL bulb is $2.50+ a piece. I've used both in my house, the CFL's don't last that much longer and they are no where near as bright. It's bullshit.
The development of LED technology has caused their efficiency and light output to rise exponentially, with a doubling occurring about every 36 months since the 1960s, in a way similar to Moore's law. The advances are generally attributed to the parallel development of other semiconductor technologies and advances in optics and material science. This trend is normally called Haitz's Law after Dr. Roland Haitz. [24] In February 2008, 300 lumens of visible light per watt luminous efficacy (not per electrical watt) and warm-light emission was achieved by using nanocrystals.[25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode
This is actually an important use. As many plumbers and old farmers know, it's hard to beat a simple 100W bulb under a box (or just next to a pipe) to keep pipes and pumps from freezing.