I think more education about theese lights and there removal from work and schools are a good thing.
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I figured out why uv lights are promoted in the public sector .
The globalist , governement, regressive industries agenda is to turn the general populace into beavis and butthead. Slowy over time. If energy saving was such a big issue than non toxic – LED and LCD lights should also be promoted, cheaply
People who have adapted to the lights, and or like them, work , live with them for a long time, may be in the advanced stages of beavis and butthead transmutation. (stage 4 – irreversable butthead) Ive seen a few working at retail establishements. … LOL!.
Great care must be taken if one of the new energy efficient compact fluorescents are broken – they contain mercury. Industry makes out the amount to be minuscule – much like the amount given off from one’s metal fillings or in a vaccine is touted as minimal. Many people are completely unaware of this fact and I know a couple people who have broken a bulb and simply swept it up in a dust pan.
Besides health problems and their subtle sonic whine, there is the added bonus that fluorescents generally make you look terrible. Recoiling in horror at your own face under the glare of mall fitting room lights is rather depressing And there you have it, an irritated populace who feels ugly and stupid.
Fluorescent light bulbs and tubes have ALWAYS contained mercury. They’re mercury vapor lamps with a fluorescent coating on the inside of the glass that translates the light frequency given off by the mercury (kind of gas flame blue) to white light. There are various coatings which is how you get the “cold white” and “warm white” colors and I understand now there are others.
It was even worse when the fluorescent tubes were first on the scene (1950’s maybe?). The fluorescent coating they used was a barium compound. People broke tubes and got cut and got the barium compound in the cut and it refused to heal (barium compounds are nasty in the body) and had to have pieces of skin surgically removed so they would heal. That didn’t last long before the industry changed to the types of coatings they’re currently using which don’t exhibit this issue.
Nothing new here other than the new ones designed to replace regular light bulbs as you say, may have consumers not realizing the health risks if one breaks.
The other thing (not health related) I heard recently (haven’t verified it yet) is that the manufacturers of these are careful to state the power usage in watts as a comparison to an incandescent bulb. Problem is, incandescent bulbs are basically resistors where if they consume 100 watts, thats all they use.
What I heard is that the compact fluorescent bulbs do not have a power factor of 1.0. What this means is that the current waveform is out of phase with the voltage waveform and because of the way electric meters read power, your wonderful 100 watt equivalent compact fluorescent bulb thats touted as using perhaps 23 watts, would instead be using as much power (as far as your electric meter is concerned) as say a 50 watt incandescent bulb or around there.
Yet another gotacha if the intel is correct.
At the point these were developed for consumer use, LED technology hadn’t advanced enough to the point that high power lighting (affordable) was even possible. It is now but the LED lamps cost significantly more that the compact fluorescent ones. Some of this is probably a volume issue (high volume production drops manufacturing cost substantially) but its a lot easier to melt and twist up a glass envelope and to add the end connections and a little mercury and seal it than it is to manufacture LED’s. Glass is cheap, mercury is cheap, the end contacts are cheap, the fluorescent coating material is cheap and there is no real learning curve as the industry has been making fluorescent bulbs for perhaps 60 years at this point. LED’s aren’t and given the complexity of their manufacture, I’m not sure they’ll ever approach the lower cost of the compact fluorescents. But then, anything is possible.
i bought a funky lighter in India that had some led flashlight that could detach from it, very uselful. It cost maybe ,50cents or so and it was made in China…wait and see ;-d
Gene Fluorescent light bulbs and tubes have ALWAYS contained mercury. They’re mercury vapor lamps with a fluorescent coating on the inside of the glass that translates the light frequency given off by the mercury (kind of gas flame blue) to white light. There are various coatings which is how you get the “cold white” and “warm white” colors and I understand now there are others.
I was just mentioning about the new ones because so many people have been given the idea the new ones are harmless because of all the eco-themed packaging. It can be hard to convince some people, they tend to reply “But if they were dangerous they wouldn’t sell them, would they? Besides, look, it says they’re ‘green’. There’s leaves and people bicycling in the sunshine on the box.” It’s like trying to convince some people that Jello is made from gelatin which is made from rendered animal by-products; they simply can’t believe it could be true. It looks great but it’s artificially flavoured chemically altered cow connective tissue.
From what I’ve seen, they don’t seem to last much longer than regular old light bulbs.
I agree. The problem is marketing and the government not only turns a blind eye, they actually support the product in the name of “green” as you say.
All fluorescent bulbs are dangerous to the extent they contain mercury or mercury vapor. There are no warnings on the packaging but then I don’t recall there being any warnings on the packaging for fluorescent tubes either.
The ones I’ve used, the bulbs themselves never seem to burn out. What happens is that something goes funny with the drive electronics and something inside the base burns out (probably planned that way – failure mechanism is always the same which is suspicious to say the least). I also doubt you get nearly the number of hours stated on the package in run time before failure but then, who keeps track and even if you do, how are you going to prove it?
They also don’t put out as much light as a good incandescent of the same wattage. I used to use 60-75 watt bulbs here and have had to go to 100 watt equivalent fluorescents to get about the same amount of light.
And if that thing about the amount of power they really use is true, word needs to get around.
“Such marketing coincidences (Thimerosal in/Calomel out) seem to be events orchestrated by those who also stood to gain from the continuing the sub-acute mercury-poisoning of babies, which increases not only the short-term medical customer base in the affected children but also, because it causes many of them to develop life-long “chronic” diseases, increases the number of times these customers will need to be seen, treated, and, in most cases, prescribed medicines.”— [http://www.whale.to/vaccine/king.html]
I seem to recall they were invented by a German during the war who said they should never be used after the war. Sitting under a strip light is a subtle form of torture for me, my ex wife has one in her kitchen, bit like sitting in a hospital corridor.
“But if they were dangerous they wouldn’t sell them, would they?”
