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Chuck wrote:
Frank wrote:
Bob wrote:
This guy makes sense.

http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg

What bugs me, as a retired chemist, is that fluorescent bulbs have
always contained mercury:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent_lamp

Mercury toxicity depends on the chemical state it is in. The EPA advice
cited is just plain nuts to me.

I use CFL's for energy savings but I'm damned if I want congress to tell
me what to do and if I ever break one or throw it away, what I do with
it is my business.


CFL's also emit UV. People that have Lupus, fibromyalgia, or Sjogrens
syndrome (auto-immune diseases) become very ill. Going into any store
with fluorescent lighting causes them a lot of discomfort.

Fluorescents produce less UV than is present in a similar quantity of
daylight.

CFLs and other triphosphor fluorescents of higher color temperature
(3500 Kelvin and higher) produce even less UV, since the blue-emitting
phosphor component in those absorbs and utilizes much of the 365 nm
wavelength (unlike most other fluorescent lamp phosphors).

- Don Klipstein )