Lights and pollution...

The illuminated Mysore Palace is a real beauty to watch, especially from the Chamundi hills. It takes about 96,000 incandescent bulbs to light up this marvelous palace. Did you ever think about the amount of energy wasted or pollution by it.

Greenpeace, as usual is worried about it. They even contacted the officials concerned and got some word from them that they would switch to the energy saving compact Fluorescent lamps (CFL). Later there were reports that the officials never said they would switch to CFL.

Decision to switch to CFL's cannot be taken in a haste. Its financially huge you would say. But there is energy savings by using CFL's as Greenpeace claims.
This is not the whole picture. There is a larger environmental issue. CFL's are made up of mercury. Disposing of these bulbs is a matter of concern. In a country like India where there aren't proper waste disposal procedures followed, we need to think before switching.

Anyways I have a CFL bulb in my room & I never thought about how I would I dispose it off. Actually I have thrown a few into common dust bins. I think I need to think about where to dispose. Shouldn't you also ?