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  One point that's missed

  What Umbra (and most of the world) miss is that what's good for conserving electrons ain't so hot for your health. The short explanation: CFLs, most other electronics that use inverters and variable speed motors create prodigious amounts of "distorted" electricity, which, due to an outdated electrical distribution system, flood into the environment -- and your household wiring. Think of it as converting rooms into low-power microwave.
  Longer story: Industry spend billions annually to deal with this problem (i.e., improving power quality) but the rest of us remain completely ignorant. On the bright side, the proliferation of electronic gizmos certainly has the potential to mrarkedly reduce human overpopulation...
  The Russians figured it out decades ago. Search for "radio wave sickness."On Umbra on LCD vs. plasma TVs posted 9 months, 1 week ago 5 Responses