Posted on 03/19/2008 5:20:17 PM PDT by yorkie
Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry officials and some environmental scientists, who warn that the bulbs’ poisonous innards pose a bigger threat to health and the environment than previously thought.
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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 love mine. I can tell the difference in the (Texas)summer on my electric bill, not having all of those miniature heat sources radiating in my house is a huge plus.
I have heard about folks being affected by the bulbs, I feel sorry for you about that. I haven’t had that problem. The only problem I have had with them is on my nightstand where the lamp interferes with the radio with a flourescent but not an incandescent.
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....:))
and you can’t use CFL bulbs if you want to use a dimmer switch.
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.
Yes, they are more efficient.
Yes, they do last longer.
But - they are going to fill our landfills with mercury. (At least that is the way I understand it.)
Most people are not going to go to any trouble to dispose of a light bulb. They will toss it in the waste basket.
I have those in my office at work. They give me a headache, so I keep them turned off.
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...
if I remember right, we just learned in physics 101 that florescent lights switch between blue and red really fast. we were messing with a vibrating string thing counting wavelengths or some crap and could see it.
yall pray that i pass that damn class.
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