okay as many know that in 2012 we can no longer use the condesent light bulb but the mecury based Compact fluorescent bulbs. i was reading up on these things stupid silly things and i began to realize... theyre dangerous and just not practical. Before i get started, i when say this, if people want them, then yes leave them on the market, but the condescent light bulbs should be left on the market.
compact flourescent bulbs have mercury, and anyone who has taken a science class knows that mercury is highly poisoness. compact flourescent has an incredible amount of mercury, thats whay the bulbs last so long and so brightly. but what happens if you have neuro problems or if the bulb breaks? if you have neuro probs or a common desease like ms, you will have to suffer for the rest of your lives, bc flourescent bulbs are so bright and intense they hurt their eyes and give you migranes. also what if the bulb breaks? the vapors in the bulb will be released into the room and you will breath it in. it is said once that happens that you are to leave all your windows open and let it vent out.
this takes about three days to do. and what if you were next to the bulb when it breaks? well this has happened already. a man came forth today on a radio show and said that, when the bulb broke he, who picked it up and put in a plastic bag so the remaining vapors wouldnt leak into the store and the guy who was in charge of disposing of dangerous wastes got mercury poisoned. the other guy had seisures and he himself lost some motor skills.
heres some fun facts for you. these light bulbs will not be accepted by landfills and will have to be delt with some other way. they are higly poisonous, especially to infants and young children. mercury in that amount can and will cause side effects such as loss of motor skill, neuasia, blindness, and can even cause death.
is this really a path we should take? should these risks and bad things be forced upon the american population. should we not have the choice to buy whatever light bulb we want even if its out dated as the green peace says. i think we should have the choice to decide, i do not want these in my house, especially since im planning on having kids soon. _________________
I used compact fluorescents without a problem but, then again, they never broke on me. The mercury content facts seem to differ depending on what source you look at, but what I've found is that they probably contain less than old thermometers (which I have broken...oops). I've found some sources saying that claims that the amount of mercury in CFL's pose a 'grave danger' is false - which is what I would tend to think. But they do have some mercury, so you have to be careful (don't break them open and sniff).
From what I've been told by past professors, if you've had a science class you've probably been exposed to mercury because of old thermometers. Whenever they'd break, the mercury would get down in the cracks of the floor and it's apparently hard to get back out again - so some of it is still sitting down there. (I don't know about anybody else, but I remember having 'mercurichrome' put on my cuts when I was little - thanks for the heavy metal exposure, mom )
My biggest problem with the CFLs is the way the light looks. I got some to try because they last longer, but the light from them is very harsh. I kept them in because I'd spent the money on them, but I'm not sure if I'd use them again. Plus they cost more. (I had to leave all mine in my apartment when I moved out, hope the next resident enjoys my expensive lightbulbs) If fluorescent light bothers you, I wouldn't get them. Of all the bulbs I've yet tried, I tend to like the ones best that mimic natural light. _________________ I don't have a lot of experience with vampires, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once. But by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog. ~ Dwight Schrute
This is the way I see it. A fwe hundred years ago, mercury was used on a regular basis. Hatters, for example, used it to give top hats their shape. Mercury was easy to mold and durable at the same time, so it was sewn into the everyday hat. These hatter's used mercury daily. It did affect them, but it took years and years of them using this mercury to really be affected.
Light bulbs don't break that often, and the few instances that they do break are not really going to have that big of an effect on any one. This mumbo jumdo just sounds like utter paranoia to me. The world is a scary and dangerous place. That's life. We can't allow every little story make us afraid of little things like lightbulbs. _________________
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