““The biggest source of mercury in our environment, human caused mercury is from power production,” Nadel said. “If you use the conventional incandescent lamp I believe the EPA found that you would emit 5.5 grams of mercury into the atmosphere that then goes into the water. It can go into the fish and be ingested. “
On which freaking planet does an incandescent lamp or even the power needed to illuminate it produce 5.5 gms Hg? What a ludicrous, baseless assertion.
Technically correct for some coal plants. Coal has minute quantities of Hg. Clean coal technologies are removing the Hg and apparently mitigates the problem. Nadel can take his twisty bulb & go play with it till it breaks.