Posted on 01/10/2008 2:53:22 PM PST by John Semmens
British doctors are warning that mandating environmentally friendly light bulbs poses health risks. New energy-saving fluorescent bulbs produce an intense light that may cause eruptions of eczema or increased incidences of skin cancer. Skin damage isn’t the only worry, though. These lights can also trigger migraines, dizziness, and spark seizures in people with epilepsy.
Such bulbs have been made mandatory in a variety of locations including the United Kingdom, Australia, Nova Scotia, California, Connecticut, North Carolina and Rhode Island.
The health warning was issued by Spectrum, a consortium of charities working with people with light sensitive health conditions, and the British Association of Dermatologists. Andrew Langford, chief executive officer of Skin Care Campaign, one of the charities involved, said: “Incandescent light bulbs are the only source of electric light for many thousands of people with light sensitive conditions. The government simply must allow incandescent light bulbs to be available to these people, their families, friends and employers, and at a fair price.”
Global environmental crusader, Al Gore, minimized the threat. “Only a small number of people would be affected,” Gore observed. “While each individual case may be heartbreaking, the over all impact is tiny. It’s a sacrifice we must be willing to make in order to save the planet from total destruction.”
Total conversion of all incandescent light bulbs to fluorescent bulbs is projected to reduce total CO2 emissions from all sources by less than two-hundredths of one percent (about one molecule in 7,000).
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The liberals feel good about it and that’s all that matters to them. Damn the consequences.
Sacrificing oneself willingly, for the benefit of others, is altruistic and honorable.
Sacrificing some against their will for the benefit of others is cruel and heart-wrenching but sometimes (hopefully very rarely) necessary.
Sacrificing some for no tangible benefit to anyone else except the high priests making the sacrifice, is vile, disgusting and corrupt.
This is an example of the third case.
Fluorescent lightbulbs should be sold with reading glasses and coupons for optometrist exams.
In checking them this week, the highest light output I could find was about 1750 lumens, about the same as a 100 watt lightbulb. That’s half what we get from the living room reading lamps with 3500 lumens each.
In the carbon-free eco future the then-elderly Global Warmists will all have bad eyes and have to wear LED headlamps to read a book.
Am I the only person left who needs more than a 100 watt lightbulb to read while laying on the couch?
From my research the other day (at Safeway’s lightbulb section) the fluorescent bulbs ought to be rated in candlepower, not lumens.
I ended-up buying 4, 200 watt incandescents and a couple three-ways up to 250 watts. The fluorescents aren’t there yet.
(Optometrists should be warning the public, shouldn’t they?)
I’m stocking up on the good old bulbs while I can.
My house was built with recessed lighting fixtures on the lower level. The kitchen and family room, which is all one open space, has 14 such fixtures. Had I left the original 65 watt floodlights in, they would consume 910 watts. The CFLs I installed consume 196 watts. That's less than one quarter of the original consumption level. The five 15 watt exterior lights use one fifth of the total the original 75 watt bulbs used, and they burn 18 hours a day in the winter. Had I not changed about 40 bulbs over to CFLs, my electric bill would be $150-200 a month instead of $70. I don't use CFLs because they're green or some ecofascist thinks I should, I use them because they save me lots of money.
My sister’s family got these to save money. I was staying with her at the time. I had to switch back to regular bulbs in my room. I got tired of tripping over things I couldn’t see. I found them barely functional and had to have a normal bulb, goose neck lamp to read by. I hate them. Then there is the problem of disposing of them. And since we’re on the subject, I don’t normally dis people, but Gore is a moron.
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