Posted on 09/23/2010 11:58:18 AM PDT by American Dream 246
This crap needs to be repealed.
If you think that the only problem with Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) is safe disposal .... we’ve got news for you. CFL’s can also be a source of health hazard, toxic fumes and a fire hazard. Ask the Rick Jenkins family in Maryland who had their house burned to the ground because they connected a CFL to a dimmer switch.
http://www.wattworks.com/CFL%20Hazards.htm
While I am no fan of CFLs, let’s keep this in mind.
CFLs have 5 mg of HG or less.
If a million CFLs go into landfill and break and discharge ALL their HG, in liguid form, into the environment ... If I have done the math right ... That’s just about ONLY 2 (two) fluid ounces of HG.
Someone can check my math, but I think I am right.
personally I prefer the light from compact florescent lights (give me a nice blue shift light and I’m in heaven)but banning incandescent is moronic. People should pick whatever type of lighting they pick and pay the electric bills if it suits them.
Personally I’m waiting for full scale LED lights to come on the market. It’ll throw both incandescent and florescent out of the picture for good.
Needs to be repealed.
But it won’t happen.
So why even bother complaining about it?
"Liberals' best intentions lead to unintended consequences."
I wonder if HAZMAT has in fact ever been called out for a cleanup. Not that reporters would report it, it would interfere with their night jobs of Democrat Propagandist.
Ugh, it was bad enough when the rabid leftists passed this around...
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
Exactly the point I made to my daughter just last night after I bought new bulbs. I have all ceramic tile floors, so the possible breakage factor goes up. I will continue to use incandescents as long as I can.
Just as they forced us to put bombs in our vehicle dashboards then prosecuted us if we sat children anywhere near them, they forced us to bring poisonous mercury into our houses so they can prosecute us for bringing children into that same house.
WHAT light? If I go out to the garage to get something on a cold night, I have to sit there freezing my toosh off, waiti something.
The enviro-nazis have created bigger stirs over smaller/nonexistent risks.
How many congressmen does it take to screw in a light bulb?
“We like to say “think of the children” but we really don't care how many die to get our agenda made into the iron-clad law of the land. We will not rest until all that you do is under complete government control.
Do you think it bothered us when our totalitarian brothers killed 100 million of you evil dissenters that dared to speak against their governments? It does not bother us now to have children die if we succeed with our aims to save the planet! Even if EVERYONE dies, at least we will have saved the planet. You selfish Conservatives worry about your own species surviving. HA! What about the poor cockroach or the rat that you crazy racist, rataphobe, roachaphobe, speciests try to murder daily!
Their blood is on your hands!
We do NOT care how many children die because of these light bulbs. It is worth it as long as we have our way. We don't like it so much that our own children will die (it's totally worth it to promote the green ideal—ATFER ALL WE CERTAINLY DON'T CARE IF OUR OWN CHILDREN DIE OR LIVE IN POVERTY DUE TO DRACONIAN CAP N’ TRADE LAWS), but we take great pleasure in knowing that the children of your side will die for our cause!
Let the children die and decrease the surplus population!”
(The Green Viewpoint certainly does not represent my own)
Everyone (except epileptics) should try this, ONCE -
put a CFL in a ceiling fan and turn on the fan...
The strobe effect will knock you down.
“...Both UVA and UVB, however, have been found to cause eye damage resulting in CATARACTS...”
Fluorescent light is created by electrical current exciting mercury vapor in either neon or argon gas, in turn producing plasma, which emits ultraviolet radiation. Both UVA and UVB waves are given off in this process, neither of which are safe. According to the American Journal of Epidemiology (1992), fluorescent lights were found to produce more than ten to thirty times the amount of UVB radiation than the sun. UVB rays, the shorter of the two, are far more damaging than UVA, having been linked to numerous health problems, including cancer. Both UVA and UVB, however, have been found to cause eye damage resulting in cataracts.
You’re describing the elitist Greenies there,
but there are some PATHETIC sheep greenies that are doing inconsequential acts like using CFLs and buying “hybrid” cars in order to
FEEL SIGNIFICANT.
Pathetic people, all of them.
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