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Study: Light from energy saving LED’s may be giving us cancer
WUWT ^ | 4/25/2018 | AnthonyvWatts

Posted on 04/25/2018 8:09:04 PM PDT by Signalman

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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I put an adjustable LED above my shower, and when I turn it down low the hertz makes the water droplets look motionless and frozen in time, momentarily.


41 posted on 04/26/2018 6:18:24 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: Signalman
Study links night exposure to blue light with breast and prostate cancer

Not to worry, Kmarts will all be gone soon.


42 posted on 04/26/2018 8:44:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Signalman

Does this include those stinking blue headlights that blind me?


43 posted on 04/26/2018 9:24:12 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: exDemMom

Yes. Pineal gland: stimulated by full-spectrum daylight to produce melatonin, then release durint nighttime. Blue light interferes with circadian rhythm.

Lux can be downloaded for free on computer; it changes monitor to yellow shift at night.

I use full-spectrum bulbs during the day, red bulbs at night (like submarines do).


44 posted on 04/26/2018 2:44:56 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: PapaBear3625

Not levels, but the release.

Failure to get enough real light (full spectrum, including blue) is what lowers levels.


45 posted on 04/26/2018 2:46:43 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Signalman; All

It is likely that it isn’t so much the LED white light that contributes to cancer, but rather the lack of melatonin being produced by the body. Lack of light at night triggers the body to produce melatonin. If one is exposed to constant white light the body doesn’t produce adequate melatonin.

Melatonin has been proven to protect the body against getting cancer. It also helps with many other processes in the body. One can also supplement with it to get enough in the body to do what it does. It can help people get sleepy and fall asleep when they otherwise are trouble doing so.


46 posted on 04/26/2018 7:59:34 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus. He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: Rastus
running a little low on the lower wattage bulbs.

I found some in the Dollar Tree. They have an online store.

47 posted on 04/27/2018 9:18:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: RegulatorCountry

100% in agreement. Hate fluorescent too. The blue-white LED color is 5000 Kelvin. The incandescent LED color is 2700K. After a still on going search for a good LED we went with that color. Although we use 3000K for task lighting.


48 posted on 04/27/2018 9:43:09 AM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: reasonisfaith

CFL’s did, that’s for sure.

What a scam that was.

I think there will be a market for incandescents before long. Nothing beats it for both light, and heat.

By the by, what is up with GE stock? It’s chart looks like a wheelchair ramp.


49 posted on 04/27/2018 9:46:27 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Stirner; mad_as_he$$

Heh! I should have died several times over.

Been working 12-hour shifts switching from 6AM-6PM to 6PM-6AM every two weeks for the last 18 years.

The only reason I like nights better is simple: NO MANAGEMENT.

;-)


50 posted on 04/27/2018 9:47:34 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: RandallFlagg

A very common observation and position about night shift.


51 posted on 04/27/2018 10:00:34 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Stirner
My idea of paying first shift workers less and third shift workers more did not compute with him.

Huh? I thought that was standard practice. I briefly worked in a three shift factory. I volunteered for 3rd shift; it paid better. I was told that up front at the interview.

52 posted on 04/27/2018 10:08:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: IncPen
Life just isn’t safe anymore...

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I’m sure we can get some bottomless government grants to decide whether we should worry about this. Is 15 years enough time to study it? We can always go longer...

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LOL ...... and I just bought a dozen of them.

;-)

53 posted on 05/02/2018 3:17:25 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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