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Dan Richards

9 Years Ago

New Warning On The Cfl Bulbs

More and more these warnings are slipping oput, even though the major media networks try to hush them as much as they can.

http://www.drbuttar.com/energy-saving-bulb-dangers/

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Patricia Strand

9 Years Ago

Are these those squiggly shaped bulbs we are supposed to now be using? I have a small stockpile of the old ones that I am loathe to give up. I don't see how this poor fellow's foot could even be saved. The story sounds like one of those "what could go wrong will go wrong" scenarios. If ever a bell goes off in your head to not change a lightbulb in your bare feet, best to heed it.

What if he'd had little kids around? Not so sure these bulbs are a very good idea. Scary!!!

 

I couldn't stand to look at the images.

These bulbs in the long run may end up being more dangerous to the environment. They are supposed to be recycled and never put into trash cans for regular disposal. Knowing how most of the population is... there is going to be lots of these in the local dumps. Breathing this mercury may end up being another one of those issues we will be seeing in Lawsuit Commercials in the near future.

 

Dave Leo

9 Years Ago

It is important to stay informed on these hazards. However there are many dangers in your home (cleaning chemicals, toxic paints and thinners, electrical connections, tools and appliances, boiling pots, pressure cookers, sharp objects, hot objects, etc etc). These are all well-accepted threats and we live with them every day. (Consider the 15 gallons of explosive gasoline in your car !!)

Life in the New Age.


 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

It must be a big conspiracy to get us to save energy.

 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

BTW - don't eat tuna fish either:

"You may have missed this one, but an essay in the August 2009 issue (PDF) of LD+A, the magazine of the Illuminating Engineering Society of America, argued that people are exposed to far greater amounts of mercury by eating tuna fish. A typical 6 oz. fish sandwich contains 48 micrograms of mercury (that’s 0.048 mg), according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If you knock over a lamp and a CFL breaks, it will typically results in a dose of 0.07 micrograms (that’s 0.0007 mg) of mercury, according to scenarios assessed by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. According to the authors, these numbers show that the issue of dangerous mercury in CFLs is “One Big Fish Story.”

http://earthtechling.com/2011/10/the-mercury-myth-how-much-mercury-do-cfls-actually-contain/

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

LED is the new standard, they aren't even allowed to make the old incandescent. mercury was always known to be inside of these, it's how all of these tube lamps work. which is why it's important to toss them correctly, and there is no correct. same with neon, it needs that metal to work.

we got new LED lights and they are way bright, instant on, safe and more or less affordable. they use a tiny bit of power and don't look silly.


---Mike Savad

 

Chuck De La Rosa

9 Years Ago

Its interesting that over the last few years this is suddenly "new" information about this terribly dangerous product. We've been using florescent tubes in our garages and basements for decades. How come it wasn't a problem before? Moreover, I've handled "hot" CFLs. They are not really all that hot. You are in more danger every time you drive your car than from all the CFLs you will ever handle in your lifetime.

Thanks Edward! You said a lot of what I was going to highlight!

But I'll echo what Mike said. The way to go is LEDs. I swapped out the bulbs in my travel trailer for LEDs and I'm pretty impressed. I don't find them all that affordable for the house right now, but prices are dropping rapidly.

 

Dan Richards

9 Years Ago

Florescent lights that used to made here in the states, never used Mercury, that was an addition when they started being made in China. Now they are all made in China, and they are all dangerous. Even most of the reports I have heard, are less to do with breathing, which is what your report deals with Edward, and had something to do with contact. The contact part I never understood until I saw this article. Something to do with the mixture on Mercury that makes this a very dangerous contact toxim. I agree with you on Tuna, and tilapia, which are both rising on the Mercury lists, and now Tuna is rising on the Radio contamination charts as well.

 

Joshua House

9 Years Ago

Is this mercury on the outside of the bulbs? Because if it's on the INSIDE we've all been exposed to a hell of a lot more of it via having a thermometer in our mouths any number of times as a child, because while there are digital thermometers now, let's face it, very few of us are young enough to have only used them.

 

Chuck De La Rosa

9 Years Ago

@Dan, Florescent lights that used to made here in the states, never used Mercury, that was an addition when they started being made in China.

Say what? Where did you hear that? That's never been the case. Florescent lamps convert mercury liquid into vapor. And it always has been. Argon is also present but is not the primary gas exploited for its glow. Read up on the history and science of the florescent lamp and stop reading that tree hugger propaganda.

 

Chuck Staley

9 Years Ago

To be safe, I would use candles, but then I would probably burn the house down.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

the mercury is on the inside, but the guy in the article dropped and broke, then oddly stepped in the glass. i personally would have tried to avoid that.

i remember a story i think my brother told me about some chem lab in a school. someone dumped i think waste mercury in one of the chem barrels, i'm not sure why it exploded, i think other things were poured in as well. but the reaction was so great, that mercury was every where. it took months to clean it all up (no one was in the room at the time). and even after all of that, mercury was still dripping from the wood grain on the wall.


---Mike Savad

 

Chuck De La Rosa

9 Years Ago

Ban DHMO!

http://www.dhmo.org/


Seriously. This site is a joke. But the fact that a town in California took up a measure to ban DHMO because of the propaganda on this site well illustrates how misinformation gets out of hand real quickly.

BTW, the site was originally created by a high school student for a class project.

 

Louise Reeves

9 Years Ago

We had a CFL bulb catch fire in an overhead (can light).
There was no warning on the package to not have them in a covered light source.
Sent the photos of the damage and the bulb to Sylvania and they never replied.
There are still incandescents being sold, so we have those and LED. CFL lamps were and are the stupidest thing ever. You can't even just toss them out.

 

Joshua House

9 Years Ago

Did the bulb ignite or did it ignite the various stuff that tends to build up in a covered light source?

 

Dave Leo

9 Years Ago

Somewhat off topic... when I was a kid (less than 10 years old) we would scavenge boxes of reject thermometers from the factory dumpster down the street. Break the thermometers open and let the mercury coalesce into balls (this was a silver metal fluid - not the red stuff) and we'd keep our mercury balls in jars and "play" with the stuff because it was so strange. Over time, we'd each had a pretty large glob of mercury to play with.

The good old days, huh ?



 

Chuck De La Rosa

9 Years Ago

Louise that's interesting. Though I'm sure not very cool for you at the time! But the reason its interesting is that up until about a year ago I would have not know that either. A friend who is an electrician said they actually make special can lights for CFLs. So they can be enclosed, but with the right kind of enclosure. I don't know what's different (venting perhaps?), but I doubt the general public knows this.

 

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