Posted on 04/30/2007 5:37:31 AM PDT by ncphinsfan
Maybe Home Depot can offer a class on florescent light bulb cleanup. I got nothing I didn’t already know out of their faux painting techniques class.
Me, too. I have vision problems and fluorescent bulbs exacerbate them. Hate fluorescent bulbs!
When I was a girl, my mother packed up used light bulbs a couple of times a year and took them downtown to the power and light and turned them in for new ones. Mercury has been known forever, and was use by medieval alchemists. We are still around. Nature is the best recycler there is.
Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.
The environmentalist’s solutions have often backfired. Cases in point the “clean” gasoline additive MTBE found to be a terrible pollutant, the lightweight economy cars that have increased crash fatalities, the banning of DDT sending millions to needless death from malaria etc.
Yet.
Our local Home Depot has a sign up that says to contact some web-site regarding recycling of these light-bulbs. I wonder if you dropped one in the store and broke it if they would close the store and call in the clean-up folks. Pretty expensive overhead I would say.
I’m sure they would just sweep it up then put out the ‘Piso Mojado’ signs so they could mop.
When my mom was a kid the dentist used to let his pediatric patients play with a ball of mercury to get then to cooperate with the mercury fillings.... they seem to be doing alright.
In grade school, we played with mercury in our bare hands in science class...
Mark
Much like MTBE in gasoline... And the ground water...
Mark
I remember that as well.
I am pretty much skipping out on flourescants unless they are really cheap, I have already used LED lamps at home and in my vehicles, basically they are breakproof unless you really get serious like using a hammer as they are sealed in epoxy. They also last much longer usually rated at 100,000 hours or 11 years, also flourescants lose life in time with the on/off cycles, the more often you turn them on the shorter the life.
Why hasn’t anyone advertised LED as the better alternative? I’m willing to say because the customer won’t need a new bulb until next decade and thats not exactly making the best amount of profit. Flourescants will actually not last as long as an incandescant if its cycled the same amount of times, even Mythbusters proved that though its been known for years by office building maintenance crews, thats why they tend to just leave them on all the time so they will last longer.
Perhaps not one, but how about millions of them?
We’ve been selling fluorescents for many decades and we are still alive.
If I was selling a product I knew had to be replaced at a certain point of time I suppose it would keep a person in business, maybe thats why many products that have an unusual long life span are either high priced for the initial profit gain or are cast in poor light by the mega corporations.
I can just imagine $30 printers with a 5 year ink supply would be a big hit, for maybe 6 months.
Speaking of mercury hype, what’s the deal with mercury fillings? Someone I know is lecturing people to have their fillings replaced.
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