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May 19th 07, 11:21 PM
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(OT) Fluorescent Light Bulb Warning.
dxAce wrote: Roadie wrote: On May 19, 3:00 pm, Telamon wrote: In article om, Roadie wrote: On May 18, 9:50 pm, wrote: www.newswithviews.com I don't like fluorescent light bulbs.From now on when I go to the food store,I am going to start stocking up on good old G.E.Real Incandescent Light Bulbs,the 60 Watters.I am going to clean off the top shelves in the closets in my house and stack em up in cardboard boxes.When fed govt starts shoving fluorescent light bulbs (so-called light bulbs) down everybodys throats,I will still be wasteing my electricity that I pay for on my good old G.E.Real Incandscent 60 WATT LIGHT BULBS. cuhulin,the Electricity Waster dude.Waste Mo Electricity,you can't take it with you In celebration of Earth Day my local grocery store had GE CFL's on sale for a buck a piece. Couldn't resist the opportunity so I swapped out most of the bulbs. What a difference - because they are so much more efficient they consume 1/4 the energy for an equivalent amount of light from an incandescent bulb. The color temperature is very close to incandescent too. And for SWL's concerned about noise, the only time I pick up any noise from one is to move the radio to within 5 inches of the light. Did you know that even though CFL's contain a very small amount of mercury that they actually release less mercury into the atmosphere than an incandescent. That is possible because much of our power comes from burned coal which releases large amounts of mercury into the air. Indeed if you were to break all of the mercury CFL bulbs the total amount of mercury released including the amount of mercury used in power generation would be far less than that released by incandescent. You can always have a bulb re-cycling program to collect the mercury. Yes, I agree and such programs are starting in the USA. An NPR program characterized the amount as something like 5 miligrams...the size of the tip of a ball point pen. The amount of mercury not spewed into the atmosphere by buring coal makes the risk of a few bulbs breaking and the cost of recycling a more than reasonable tradeoff in my mind. However, that mercury is being spewed into the atmosphere in China where the bulbs are apparently all made. Additionally, if one breaks in your home, it can cost up to $2300 to actually clean the place up due to the mercury, this was also I think pointed out on NPR or perhaps another network. I can imagine that once the bulbs are more commonplace that a real estate sale might just include testing for mercury and cleanup of any possible contamination prior to sale. Overall, I see it as a no win situation, and plan to stock up on incandescents. F**K you, Al Gore, you mentally ill idiot. Oh well, the Preakness is about to run. Hopefully my horse Curlin will have a better showing. Unofficial result: My horse Curlin WINS! |
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