The "crap" we buy now it useless and breaks if you look at it the wrong way lol (they went and made our appliances snowflakes ^^). What about the electric company giving you light bulbs saying that they are energy efficient. People eat that up and do not stop to really think about that one. The company makes money because you use electric, so why would they want to help you save money on electric? As the old saying goes "if it sounds to good to be true then it probably is". My partner will not use them at all and I understand why... if you really look at them lights it has a transmitter that transmit at 25 hertz.
Living off grid in a cabin would be my idea of wonderful... I see the beauty in nature and I am more at peace with less around me, so I get where you are coming from... now my partner would figure out a way to have electric and the internet because that is his way lol
Boy oh boy, you just opened another can of worms. I have come across information that these new lightbulbs are also anything but good for us. Something about the frequency of the flicker rate and the spectrum of the light. For now I use the old ones as much as possible, they get harder to find though. Sometimes I get lucky and find them in the 99 cent store :)
You know what... I think you and my partner stumble upon the same stuff. He recently put a program on our computers that change the light coming from them for that reason. LOL... I knew we had a good reason to like you lol. We too use the old ones as much as we can! They are getting harder to find in our area.