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Lights go out as Britain bids farewell to the traditional bulb despite health fears about eco-bulbs
Daily Mail ^
| 06 Jan 2009
| David Derbyshire
Posted on 01/06/2009 7:39:23 AM PST by BGHater
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:39:23 AM PST
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
The way the Brits tell it, Edison was a footnote...
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:41:47 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(GM's market value is a third of Bed, Bath and Beyond. Why is GM "too big to fail"? Steyn)
To: BGHater
Mercury batteries have been banned because they contained mercury. But now compact fluorescents are being mandated, and by the way they contain mercury. And my guess is that the average household will possess more mercury from the lights than they would have from mercury batteries (used only in button-sized camera batteries and exotic test equipment).
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:43:05 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: BGHater
There’s SOCIALISM for ya’, folks. Coming to a country near you!
Meanwhile.......the police can’t handle a New Year’s Eve because of underfunding and understaffing. Same goes for the NHS. Lightbulbs are more important. Sick.
To: BGHater
This same ban on incandescent light bulbs is coming to the US, starting with the 100W bulb in 2012 and ending with the 40W bulb in 2014. Bush signed it into law on December 18, 2007.
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:44:15 AM PST
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: BGHater
Mercury poisoning was a hoax anyway, just ask the local mad hatter.
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:44:46 AM PST
by
Tarpon
(America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
To: coloradan
When they mandate this here, we’ll burn candles.
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:45:02 AM PST
by
yobid
To: BGHater
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:45:33 AM PST
by
BGHater
(Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
To: BGHater
The ultimate NANNY/POLICE STATE marches on.
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posted on
01/06/2009 7:54:47 AM PST
by
DocH
(Hussein Obama: Leader of an America-Hating Socialist /Black Nationalist Sleeper Cell)
To: mvpel
Bush signed it into law on December 18, 2007. Thank you W; you have been the best socialist president to date.
I guess there was no ink in the veto pen.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:01:46 AM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
To: coloradan
(NOT THAT I AM ADVOCATING THIS) I have wondered what would happen if a bunch of people “accidentally” dropped compact flourescents on the steps of the capitol.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:11:30 AM PST
by
PrincessB
("I am an expert on my own opinion." - Dave Ramsey)
To: BGHater; All
Every time the local home improvement store puts 4 packs of REAL bulbs on sale for $1 (or less) I’ll head down there with my forklift. I might have to throw out some of my plastic sheeting, duct tape, MREs and light resistant spring water, but I will be mercury-free and well lit during the Obam-a-pocalypse.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:14:22 AM PST
by
AbeKrieger
(Clomppity clomp.)
To: DocH
Wait until the government starts providing these to the “underprivileged” who can’t affort to pay retail prices. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:16:15 AM PST
by
AbeKrieger
(Clomppity clomp.)
To: PrincessB
I used them in most rooms in my house, but when possible, I use them in enclosed fixtures despite the directions not to. My experience has been good with them so far and I am not sure they are any more dangerous than the ole tube florescent bulbes. Environmentally, maybe we will luck out and this technology will soon be replaced by LED technology.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:18:44 AM PST
by
DonaldC
To: coloradan
And I once heard that if you break one - and who hasn't broken a light bulb before - you need to call in a hazmat team to clean up the mercury.
Spaghetti bulbs are a novelty - another "bright" idea sold to the Congress to legislate someone a fortune. If every lightbulb in the country has to be changed out, someone is a new milliionaire.
And, again...the only ones suffering are the consumers.
I'm going to stock up on incandescents...I'll keep them in the same place I keep my stocked up ammunition, and my stocked up food, and all of the other third world stocks my government is forcing me to keep because of democrat ignorance.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:19:44 AM PST
by
FrankR
(“Turtle up”, economically, for the duration of the 0bamanation.)
To: BGHater
I have a couple bright lights which use 150 watt bulbs on dimmers (not three ways). If I could find dimmable CFLs, I would give them a try, but the only CFLs that handle dimmers I can find are 60W or less. I loved the old 300W torchiere lights, but it is hard to find them anymore. I really don't want to have to deal with multiple light fixtures to be able to have both bright light and dim lights.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:22:34 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: BGHater
Every house I have been in that uses these is like being in a cave. I consider the illumination to be very poor. They buzz and have to warm up to come on. You can’t use a dimmer with them. A very poor choice.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:25:41 AM PST
by
Pilated
To: PrincessB
My guess is the whole group would be arrested, charged with terrorism, and locked up for a long time.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:25:55 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: DonaldC
My experience has been good with them so far and I am not sure they are any more dangerous than the ole tube florescent bulbes. The main danger of CFLs vs. tube bulbs is the tube bulb is usually in a ceiling fixture rather than a moveable (and tippable) lamp which is far more subject to being broken. I think I've broken one tube accidentally, and that was when I was changing it and dropped it off the ladder.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:26:02 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: GOPJ
Yeah, I guess making a lightbulb that lasted almost 100 times longer was just a small improvement. LOL.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:27:31 AM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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