Posted on 07/30/2012 9:43:50 AM PDT by 92nina
I don’t get the LED ban. I had no idea there were health risks. Do they have mercury in them like the “flourescent bulbs” that the government mandates?
The led sign ban most likely comes from these guys:
http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/nelpag/nelpag.html
There are NO health risks from LED lighting, unless you damage your eyes by looking directly into them.
WTF?
Traffic lights are switching to LED technology all across the country, and for good reason.
Government LEDs good, private LEDs bad?
[ Outdoor LED Lights Banned in Hopkinton: In the small town of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, LED lights will no longer be displayed outdoors after a new council ordinance banned them. In introducing the ban, Councilor Capalbo asserted that LED signs pose a direct threat to the town’s environment and citizens’ health, saying, “The intent is to prevent the use of self-illuminated, diode driven signage, both for health and safety.” It’s unclear if the council believes the open flame on torches would be a healthier and safer option for citizens hoping to see while they are outside at night. ]
I don’ get it either, unless they are talkiing about the “Giant LED Television “ display signage???? And if they are going to ban them they might as well ban billboards...
So you could build a giant Sign that uses a CRT? or use a projector? I don;t get what these ninnies are wanting...
LEDs use far less energy then giant light display signs that use regular light bulbs... frickin’ morons...
Well, ingesting one might be so good either.
I didn’t know what a buckyball was but they look like lots of fun. If a kid is dumb enough to eat them, then they look small enough to flush on out in a couple days with no harm done.
Getting fined for unintentionally feeding turkeys? So, if you squished a knat that was flying around your head and it fell to it’s death to the ground and a turkey wandered by and ate it, you’d be fined for unintentionally feeding the turkey? I call fowl on that.
You can't imagine the amount of photonic particulates that are violently emitted from these LED lights. It is disturbing and dangerous for humans to be over exposed to photons. They should ban photonic exposure. Then "Big LED" would care about our safety.
I will illuminate with burning excrement before I will buy another CF bulb.
You don’t feed wild turkeys you EAT them.
Stupid Yankees!
I read something about them awhile ago. They're magnetic, so they stick together in the small intestine and don't pass through.
Still and all, though .... it's a foolish thing to ban. More likely the kid will hit himself on the head with it while pulling it off your desk, than eat the things.
I guess it's too much to ask parents to be responsible and put away things that little kids shouldn't have ... like Mrs WBill and I did. (and still do) Biggest surprise, and something that I learned about on FR? Keep the paper shredder unplugged to keep little fingers out of it. We're pretty careful, but I never in a million years would have thought of that without reading something about it on FR.
:: they look small enough to flush on out in a couple days with no harm done. ::
the concern is ingesting multiple buckeyballs. They could stick to each other across and through the intestine walls. Digestive impact, that.
It's worse than that. LEDs emit waves of radiation, more than ten times as much as an incandescent bulb with the same power!
I’m expecting Schumer and Pelosi to co-sponsor anti-sun legislation any day now. That huge nuclear fireball just set up shop and started operation without any government regulation at all - and do you know what kind of back taxes it owes??? :)
It’s not banning the lights, it’s banning the signs. The big trend in billboards now is animated signs with LEDs. They tend to be pretty distracting, not to mention ugly. I don’t know about ban worthy, but I’ll enjoy the day the trend dies... except they’ll probably be replaced by something that annoys more.
The town already banned trapping them. I can't imagine the horror that would ensure if you were to actually shoot one.
must be a ban pushed by GE abnd Siemens. Makers of CF bulbs that pushed the incandescent ban.
“then they look small enough to flush on out in a couple days with no harm done.”
The issue is, and this has happened, that a kid eats TWO magnets, not at the same time. When they meet in the intestines, they immediately click together, pinching one intestine loop to another. If you have ever got a piece of skin nipped between two strong magnets you’ll appreciate the force here, the magnets actually can penetrate the intestine wall.
It has only happened a few times but in each case the outcome was very unpleasant.
Eating ONE magnet won’t do anything.
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