Guess it is some kind of allergy - but I don't have to look under a lamp-shade. My eyes tell me immediately.
You’re allergic to photons ?
My experience with those light bulbs is similar to yours. I tried one for a few weeks in a lamp that sits next to my computer, and finally had to remove it because my eyes were itching and burning pretty much all of the time. Since returning to an incandescent bulb, my eyes feel fine.
God.
Just build more nukes already.
Light bulb choice should not be a soul searching issue.
Jeez.
This IS America.
Eletrical power should not even be an issue of any kind.
Thanks greenies!
In terms of mercury pollution, our contribution is somewhere in the vicinity of one old-style household fever thermometer broken every couple of decades or three.
I haven't noticed such myself. My house and workplace (one and the same) are filled with flourescents. I wonder what is the self-inflicted damage to which I am being insensitive.
I worked with someone years ago who had to have special bulbs in her work area because she broke out into a rash with the fluorescents.....her face would turn all red and then a rash would breakout on any skin exposed to the lights.
This is not the first time the idiot environmentalists have jumped on a band wagon that doesn’t pan out. I work for an environmental waste hauling company. The owner had a meeting with all the employees warning us NOT to buy and use CFL bulbs. Not only are they hazardous to your health due to the mercury, but you can not dispose of CFL bulbs in your household trash. You need to store the burned out ones and call your local disposal company and ask how they want them packaged or where they want they delivered to for disposal. Realistically, if you drop or somehow break a CFL bulb, you would need a hazardous material cleanup team to come cleanup and dispose of the bulb. He wasn’t sure but he had heard the CFL bulbs don’t last as long as the manufacturers claim they will. In closing, the bulbs may be good for the environmentalists but they are certainly not good for the environment.
Could be the flicker rate.
I had to shop around until I found ones that didn’t bother me.
When I needed daylight-equivalents for my art studio, I went through 3 different brands until I found ones that suited me, color-temperature wise and *didn’t* drive me berserk.
The standard long tube-type fluoros in hubby’s workshop drive me insane after only 10 minutes.
I have to get out of there because they almost make feel like I’m about to have a seizure or something....:))
The light is not good for some people. Particles in my eyes causes the light to be defused. If you don’t mind having the liquid sucked out of your eyeball every ten years then it is not a problem FOR YOU.
A large day care center burned to the ground in Marin County a couple of months ago. Workers said they saw smoke coming from a recessed lighting fixture and it spread so fast they only had time to get the kids out. I wonder if a CLF was used where it should not have been...
My prediction is with those damn things containing mercury, all office buildings are going to be required to establish emergency procedures that will have to deal with any flourescent bulbs that are broken during the changing process.........
The only difference is that it takes a minute or so until the compact comes to full intensity.
No CFLs for me, period.
I tried one once, the transformer in the base started on fire. I am not about to risk my home for some greenie’s wet dream.
My office has fluroscent lights that hum loudly all day long. I fortunately have a door and windows in my office. With the nice weather, I leave the lights off and use the daylight. I have a desklamp with an incandescent bulb in it I use when needed.
I have been talking to a lot of people with BLUE ey es. I think esp blue eyed people are senistive to this lighting. It is toxic, and can be quite harmful. My father, many years ago told me this lighting causes cancer.
the cfl’s make me sick too.
MTBE was added to gasoline in CA to reduce air pollution. Consumers were charged extra to pay for adding MTBE to fuel. Then MTBE was found to pollute groundwater. Taxpayers hit again for clean up. And got to drink poisoned water to boot. Prepare for Unintended Consequences. The well-meaning morons never think these things all the way through.
guess we are all turning to candles.