incandescent/flourescent light bulbs peacefulspirits

 Can someone tell me about the overall comparison costing of
incandescent/fluorescent light bulbs taking into account:

Component resources used in each. It seems to me that a fluorescent
light bulb has ten or more times of the world's diminishing mineral
resources in its manufacture.

Cost of proper disposal (just added to the rates?)

Cost of transport of (20 times?) heavier item.

Any health issues?

It's just that I would like a full comparison rather than a
comparative cost of only while it is plugged into the light socket

  peacefulspirits wrote:


  The ballast housing is plastic, but I don't see the world running out of
silicon or raw materials for glass.


  Check www.lamprecycle.org - probably free.  I heard that Home Depot is
now accepting dead CFLs.


  A CFL weighs maybe 2-3 times as much as an incandescent does.

  Most of the time at least, retail prices include transportation and
other costs and profits and taxes on the companies making and hauling
them.


  They have a trace of mercury and the phosphors are probably not good to
eat.  However, they do reduce need to burn coal.


  I would add the purchase price (often near or under $5 apiece) and the
operating cost.

 - Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)