Beam me to Planet Gore !
But hey, these things are great for the envirronment!
I don’t like the kind of light these things give off either...it’s a piercing white. Regular bulbs seem to be more like the color of sunlight.
So with this...after they eventually shoot out and need to be replaced, wouldn’t this pollute the ground and water more with the mercury in them? The long term effect of these could be an environmental negative.
The cure was worse than the disease...
The cure was worse than the disease...
Those incandescent lamps have Wolfram in them. That stuff certainly doesn't sound friendly.
A little note, if you buy any at a ‘big box’ store, a lot of them are are broken on the shelves in their packages. They are delicate suckers.
The vapor pressure of mercury is extremely low. It would take a long time for mercury to evaporate.
How many of you as kids played with mercury. Did it evaporate?
The vapor is poisonous, but staying away from it for 20 minutes does not resolve the problem.
What is this “professor” smoking?
Treat just like dead batteries. Toss em in the garbage. They wouldn’t sell them if they were bad for us. Right?
A caller to Rush’s show a couple of weeks ago had a fantastic suggestion. He thought we should start calling CFL bulbs MERCURY BULBS to everyone we spoke to about them.
They don’t even save energy. All the CFLs I’ve thus far bought have burnt out much more quickly on average than incandescents.
So if I lived in an open floor plan type of house and a CFL bulb broke in the living room, I should open the windows (and the outside temp. is 28 and snowing) for 15-20 minutes, turn off the heat and leave the house? And when I do come back in it’s going to take me how long to make the kitchen, dining room and living room warm?
Sounds like a good plan. /sarc
Guess I’m lucky I live in the desert. Unless this happens in the summer!
As domestic cats are phased out across America in favor of lions and tigers, a Philadelphia pet expert is warning of a potential danger with the big cats — especially if they are hungry ... you need to take special precautions if a big cat misses dinner.“Open up the freezer,” Prof. Ryan advises. “Leave the room for 15 to 20 minutes and let the big cat eat. There will be a little bit of a mess. Big cats are nasty and you don’t want to piss them off...
He says if a big cat growls at you you should also send your kids outside for about 20 minutes while you open cans of food and distract it with yarn.
I totally HATE CFL bulbs
They are more expensive and the light they produce is unpleasant to the eye, IMO.
These things need a warning label like a pack of cigarettes.
The let this cat out of the bag early...way too early. They should have said nothing about the mercury until incandescents were completely gone.
In the case of car airbags decapitating kids - they knew enough to keep that under wraps, until airbags were fully phased in.
Sometimes even socialists make mistakes.
In addition the EPA Police (Mercury Control Division) will visit your home with a few “routine” questions. Have your documents ready and in order, please.
dont like them at all & esp the way they are being forced on us