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Default Incandescent light bulb replacements

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On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 02:08:39 -0800, "azotic"
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A study by UC Irvine's Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
has discovered that LED diodes contain unsafe levels of carcinogenic toxins.
While LED's less energy friendly cousin's, CFLs, contain a measured amount
of mercury, LEDs are laden with lead, arsenic and a handful of other
chemicals that have been linked to different cancers, neurological damage,
kidney disease, hypertension, skin rashes and other serious illnesses. Not
only are these chemicals harmful to consumers if the bulbs are mishandled or
broken, but extracting those toxins from the earth is a destructive process.

Study Finds LED Light Bulbs Contain Unsafe Levels of Carcinogenic Toxins |
Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World


http://tinyurl.com/88rs5tp Your link.

Leave it to Greenies to flux up a wet dream. sigh
I'll bet if you burn LEDs in a fire, they give off toxic smoke, too.
Let's give up on their use! The EPA will get right on it, I suppose.
deeper sigh

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