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chaosmage comments on My simple hack for increased alertness and improved cognitive functioning: very bright light - Less Wrong Discussion

54 Post author: chaosmage 18 January 2013 01:43PM

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Comment author: chaosmage 19 January 2013 11:31:25PM 1 point [-]

That's only true if they're built to tolerate heat as well as incandescents have to. Do you know they are?

Comment author: David_Gerard 20 January 2013 09:06:35AM *  0 points [-]

Ooh ... good question. I have no idea.

Mind you, my experience of CFLs is that they blow out well before their claimed lifetime anyway on the crappy electricity we have around here. But I really, really like having daylight spectrum bulbs.