Environmental Consequences of Replacement of Incandescent Lamps by Compact Fluorescent Lamps

Abstract

The world replacement of incandescent lamps by compact fluorescent lamps have motivated us to carry out the present work whose objective is to establish indicators of the favorable and unfavorable situations that it generates. The same one is based on a comparison between both types of lamps by first energy analysis, and by the same economic and environmental analysis. The scope of analysis and obtained indicators has been developed worldwide.
The conclusion is an important advantage of under consumption lamps from energy and economic point of view. Nevertheless in the environmental aspect, although the same ones derive in a smaller emission of carbon dioxide, its disposal without a suitable treatment in companies specialized and specifically authorized by the competent authority for this activity, will generate, by mercury presence, a potencial contamination of drinking water estimated at 3 km3 per year on the planet.