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Great news: Federally-permitted lightbulbs a cancer risk
Hotair ^ | 01/04/2013 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/04/2013 12:56:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Salamander

$700! Ouch!

Turn off the grow lights! (just kidding)


21 posted on 01/04/2013 2:12:49 PM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: 50mm

We have electric heat *plus* the usual electric household stuff and the machine shop.

Sometimes, the bill is higher than that.

[they raised our electric prices to ‘save the earth’]


22 posted on 01/04/2013 2:17:47 PM PST by Salamander (Nothing says “Welcome to my home!” like snakes.)
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To: carriage_hill; SkyDancer

Liquid mercury is absorbed very slowly. But in the environment, some bacteria methylate it and it enters the food chain, eventually getting into fish and water.

Look up Minimata Disease that happened in Japan. Methylmercury poisoning in people who ate a lot of fish from polluted rivers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease

Here’s a scary story of a woman killed by a few drops of pure methylmercury when some penetrated her latex gloves. She died less than a year later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn


23 posted on 01/04/2013 2:18:31 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: TurboZamboni

I heard someone state that one CFL lightbulb, if not subsidized, would cost you $25 over the counter.

We’re paying for them, of course, through our taxes.


24 posted on 01/04/2013 2:20:35 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Aren’t they also a potential bio-hazard due to their mercury content?

Yes, that was mentioned in the article.......

25 posted on 01/04/2013 2:20:50 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

” - - - Exposure to the bulbs could lead to premature aging and skin cancer, according to doctors.

“It can also cause skin cancer in the deadliest for, and that’s melanoma,” said Dr. Rebecca Tung. - - - “

Where is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when yuh need ‘em?


26 posted on 01/04/2013 2:24:34 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: carriage_hill
Heck, back in the 50s, we used to break thermometers and play with the mercury in a small dish.

I did the same, coating dimes and such to make them "shiny". Not much risk there, unless you lick your coins. However, flu shots contain mercury that is directly injected into your body - that has more effect on your health.

27 posted on 01/04/2013 2:27:33 PM PST by roadcat
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To: SeekAndFind

This is exactly the kind of crap that happens when government dictates technology.

Watch how fast they will remove these bulbs from the Pentagon, the Capitol Building and the White Hut and expect the populace to continue using them.

Any of you mothers willing to expose your babies to these money-saving light bulbs?


28 posted on 01/04/2013 2:34:10 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: SeekAndFind

Did you ever notice old plastic cased computers turn yellow with age? Mostly on the side facing windows with exposure from sunlight. But also on the areas exposed to fluorescent lighting in offices.

I have old computers and toys in rooms with only incandescent lighting, and they don’t suffer from yellowing. Yellowing happens with the UV from fluorescent lights. Try it on the new CFL bulbs, it will quickly yellow light colored plastics. Then consider what CFLs are doing to your skin.


29 posted on 01/04/2013 2:39:43 PM PST by roadcat
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To: roadcat
There's definitely something rotten about fluorescent lights in general. I don't know if they still do this, but when I was a kid the grocery stores sold ham steaks turned over in their packaging and had a sticker with a picture of ham on the top.

I once asked the butcher why they did this.

He said: "Fluorescents turn the meat grey. Makes the ham unappealing. So we turn them away from the light."

30 posted on 01/04/2013 3:03:51 PM PST by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: carriage_hill

we used to play in the “crick”...just down from the dump......probably not very safe....but we’re all alive and kicking.....but we are a little weird I guess....lol


31 posted on 01/04/2013 3:10:17 PM PST by cherry
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To: SeekAndFind
LED lights also use the *florescent* effect.
There is no such thing as a *white* LED, yet to my knowledge.
They use a florescent shroud over the red or green LED to produce the white light effect by secondary photon emissions from the florescent material.
32 posted on 01/04/2013 3:16:40 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: cherry

Ditto that. And drank out of garden hoses, rode in cars/truck wo/ seatbelts, had “BB gun wars” w/ 5-6 guys... somehow, we all survived. Amazing!


33 posted on 01/04/2013 3:21:16 PM PST by Carriage Hill ("I meant to say maggot, but I have a lisp.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Mail all broken, burnt out CFL’s to your Cong - ress - Critter / Imperial Senator, in protest.


34 posted on 01/04/2013 3:22:52 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Has anyone had one of these hippie contraptions pop on them? I had one burned out the other day. When I pulled it out, there was a big hole in the glass. Ungood.


35 posted on 01/04/2013 3:31:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
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To: MeganC
We stocked up on incandescents and probably have enough 40w, 60w, 75w, and 100w bulbs to keep our great-grandchildren in warm, safe light.

I began my stocking up on 60w bulbs today. As I was checking out at my friendly Dollar General store I could not resist telling the young black clerk that at this time next year these bulbs would not be available for sale. She asked, "Why?" I said, "People electing Democrats to Congress." No reaction, but I knew there had to be an internal one.

36 posted on 01/04/2013 3:42:52 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: SeekAndFind

The Congress is so gutless that it can’t give us back the Edison lightbulb. It is so afraid of being called anti-environment that it will continue to support a POS lightbulb that doesn’t work and is dangerous.

And we expect these turds to fight the nazi Buckwheat and his coven of fat welfare mommas with cell phones stuck in their ears?

Ha!


37 posted on 01/04/2013 3:56:17 PM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Yes, it takes years and more than a ton of dirt to effectively handle 1 bulb. We have been stock piling these bulbs since this law was passed.

Every time a light bulb burns out now we buy 4 more packs of incadescent bulbs. They are great heat sources, and that is what some clever guy in Europe did to avoid the stupid law.

Just relabled them as heaters, not a light source. LOL At least that’s what my daughter told me.


38 posted on 01/04/2013 4:02:17 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

clarification stock piling incadescents not CFL.


39 posted on 01/04/2013 4:03:23 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: The Cajun

Just a clarification: “white” LEDs do use fluorescent phosphors to generate the wide range of colors that we perceive as “white.” The starting frequency of the “white” LEDs, however, is not red nor green, nor ultraviolet, but blue.

In general, a phosphorescent material cannot generate a color of a shorter wavelength than the impinging wavelength, so red or green LEDs cannot stimulate phosphors to generate blue light, but blue LEDs can stimulate phosphors to generate all visible frequencies of light.

Blue, or other visible light, is not dangerous at any normal intensity used for household illumination.

How this relates to “fluorescent” lights: “fluorescent” lights generate ultraviolet (UV) light (shorter wavelength than any visible light) instead of the blue light generated by LEDs. The UV light then impinges on phosphors to make visible light. This article points out that some of the UV light (dangerous at “normal” intensities) does leak out of the “fluorescent” bulbs. This is a danger not shared by household LEDs which don’t generate UV light.


40 posted on 01/04/2013 4:11:03 PM PST by Jubal Harshaw
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