“This guy has 6’flourescent tubes in the ceiling above his desk”
There’s a common misperception about the various compounds of mercury leading to a very cavalier attitude toward the stuff.
The type of mercury contained in long tubes is not the same as contained in CFBs. The compound in those compact flourescent bulbs vaporizes instantly when broken which and can enter nasal passages causing liver and kidney damage.
It is why the EPA considers them dangerous. Its use is highly restricted and only permitted in CFB (CFLs) because of the congressional mandate.
.Its an example of our congress at work. Sooner or later there are going to be people getting seriously ill or worse from these things.
Its not media hype, these things are dangerous they should never have been made. Let alone mandated. The question is will that ever get reported by the media.
http://www.theusmat.com/
Dude, that's "fluorescent" -- the letter "u" comes first.
Cheers!
I didn’t know that. What are the mercury compounds in regular flourescents and CFLs? I’d like to do some research on this. It could really change my perspective.
I broke one several years ago when it fell into my kids toybox.
Newsflash-I cleaned up the glass and threw it away. I and my children are still alive.
I also bite down on fish sinkers to cleamp them to the line, shoot guns and melt lead to use as weights on my pinewood derby cars. I’m still alive.
You are absolutely and categorically wrong.
There is no “compound” any different in long tube versus CFBs.
They both contain the element Mercury, in its metallic form adhered to the phosphors coated on the interior of the bulb.
Big difference is the CFBs have much lower levels of mercury .
You are citing a biased source which does not know the physics or technology behind florescent or CFBs.
My source: I personally design, build service and maintain mercury remediation equipment (mercury retorts) for the industry and have done so going on 12 years.
Regards,
Lurking’
It’s ‘ethanol lighting’. Another heavy-handed, environmentally counterproductive boondoogle that Congress has imposed on us in order to reward certain special interests that have funded their incumbency.