[Tig] bulbs for the home

[Steven Bradford]

>Can anyone tell me if there is a dimmable fluoro with which my present 
dimmers will work ok?
Yes, 
They are commonly available. A hardware store with a good lighting
selection will have them, or a lighting specialty store, or online. You
can also find spots and floods in the common sizes.

>I really can't understand why there doesn't seem to be the same degree
of 
interest in tumble driers, which use about 40 times as much power as 
standard light bulb (per unit of time used of course).

Probably because people don't run their tumble driers all the time. A
little bit run all the time uses much more energy than a lot on
occasion. 

I'd like to know more about what the intractable environmental problems
with flourescents are.

Steven Bradford
Tempe Arizona