Lighting

Wednesday April 25, 2007 - 7:43PM EDT

So now that the push to get rid of the incandescent light bulb catching on in many places I already see a flaw. Most of the push revolves around replacing incandescent with fluorescent. Fluorescent lighting however is manufactured with and contains a hazardous chemical. Mercury being it. Is the energy savings worth the countless used bulb that will probably end up in landfills poisoning the environment. It may be in the short term. I just don't want to see the push to get rid of incandescent be linked only with replacing them with fluorescent. LED and organic-LED are the real solutions to incandescent replacement. No hazardous chemicals to worry about in disposal, possible extremely cheap to make with efficiency and longevity that is better than both.