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Is fluorescent light better than regular light?

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Is fluorescent light better than regular light?

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” Fluorescent light uses less electricity than regular, incandescent light bulbs. Therefore it is cheaper. However, fluorescent light does not produce all possible light waves that make up white light. It looks like white light, but not all of the colors that make up white light (visible light) are in it. As a result, some shades of red, or green, or blue, etc., will look different under fluorescent light than under an incandescent light. “Why is the sky blue?” The sun produces white light, which is actually a combination of all of the colors. It is the blue and violet wavelengths of sunlight that are scattered the most by the molecules in our atmosphere. Thus when we look up in any direction in a clear sky, we see light coming to us from the molecules scattering about this blue light. What happens to the rest of the sunlight? It passes straight on through the atmosphere, though some of it may be scattered out by dust or other larger molecules. Water droplets in clouds scatter about al

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