On Apr 30, 4:30*pm, krw wrote:
In article a38ebf40-a884-4951-86a5-be154bb130bb@
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On Apr 29, 11:11*pm, "John A. Weeks III" wrote:
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*Jeff wrote:
John A. Weeks III wrote:
In article ,
*Jeff wrote:

* *Why don't you just buy a couple cases of incandescants and keep them
with your 8 tracks. You seem to have missed the spiraling energy costs
and don't seem to care about waste. Well, it's been a great 7 1/2 years
for you hasn't it?

Its funny you claim that the poster doesn't care about waste. *You
see, you can toss a regular lightbulb into the trash since it is
basically safe. *But the new CF bulbs are hazardous materials that
have to be handled by special licensed contractors. *The contents
of those bulbs can kill you. *Talk about waste...

Mercury CFL myths:

http://howtosaveenergy.blogspot.com/...ury-myths.html

And when you go to this web site, what do you find? *For proper disposal
of a broken CFL bulb, contact your local authority for a community
household hazardous waste collection. *That means to me that the
things are hazardous, otherwise, why call the government to get the
hazardous waste collection people involved?

There's always someone making excuses rather than moving forward with
conservation. Same thing with global warming which this is not so
coincidentally linked.

There's always someone posting links to sites that they haven't read
about subjects that they are ignorant of.

Next you are going to tell me that you have never broken a light
bulb in your entire life. *So what happens when a semi-load of
these CF things go off the side of a freeway bridge? *Does it
kill everyone in the whole neighborhood when all the bulbs break?

-john-

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* You better learn up before you pannic chicken little. What do you do
with you tube flourescents, put them in the trash, so does everyone,
and the mercury? what do you do with old thermostats, well they have
10000 times as much as a bulb and what about some thermometers, 1000
times as much. Did you know a coal plant releases twice as much
mercury powering a 100w bulb over its life than a cfl has, and that is
airborn mercury, mr sky is falling. So if you area uses coal your
wastefull incandesant is poisoning you right now with twice the
mercury, and you are breathing it now.

What do I do with a mercury thermometer? *When I find one (haven't
seen one for *years*, I take it to the nice man in the NBC suit. *
You know, the same guy you're *supposed* to take fluorescents to.

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It is very likely the thermometer you use to see if you have a fever
has mercury is it.