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Are Fluorescent Lights Safe?
March 9, 2009
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"In spite of this slight tarnish [see full article], however, I still love CFLs. I love that they use about a quarter of the electricity of traditional incandescent bulbs. I love that they last up to ten times longer than incandescent. And now I love that, according to the EPA, even though they contain mercury, their use still leads to lower amounts of this hazardous material being released into the environment than with incandescent, which contain no mercury. This is because power plants, which release mercury as a byproduct, must produce additional electricity to meet the needs of the less-efficient incandescent lights. Oh, and did I mention that I love CFLs?"
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Thoughts from my father, an electrical engineer: "They don't mention the mercury in the lamp is a spot source and the mercury from the plant is miniscule and dispersed widely. Most of it goes into soil where it is picked up in miniscule amounts by plants and comes back to us in food. A problem we have is that trace amounts of elements are depleted from the soil and putting some back is a good idea. We need trace amounts of most elements to be healthy--even things like mercury and arsenic."
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