Hi Barbara Try your local hardware store or electrical retailer. Regards Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] WOW, FYI, News Release: Bulbs To Save Energy Are Very Dangerous To Children
> Can you get these particular bulbs just anywhere, or perhaps a hardware > store? Thanks. > > Barbara > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ray Boyce > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:31 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] WOW, FYI, News Release: Bulbs To Save Energy > Are Very Dangerous To Children > > > Hi Barbara > Here is an alternative . > Alternatives to mercury-containing compact fluorescent lights > Fortunately, consumers no longer have to bring mercury into their homes > through the use of fluorescent lights. There are now sensible > alternatives. > One > of the most eco-friendly options is LED light bulbs which are not only > mercury free, they're also 300% more energy efficient than fluorescent > lights (and > about 1000% more efficient than incandescent lights). > > Unlike incandescent light bulbs, which light up regardless of the > electrical > polarity, > LEDs > will only light with positive electrical polarity. LEDs produce more light > per watt than do incandescent bulbs, and have an extremely long life span > (usually > about 50,000 hours). One manufacturer has calculated the ETTF (Estimated > Time To Failure) for their LEDs to be between 100,000 and 1,000,000 hours, > mostly > depending on the operating temperature (the cooler the environment, the > longer LEDs last). Fluorescent tubes, in contrast, are typically rated at > about > 10,000 hours, but in practical application, they only last about 2,000 - > 3,000 hours. Incandescent light bulbs typically burn out every 1,000 > hours. > LEDs > mostly fail by dimming over time, rather than with the abrupt burnout of > incandescent bulbs. > > One great advantage about LEDs is that they are difficult to damage with > external shock. Fluorescent and incandescent bulbs, on the other hand, are > easily > broken if dropped on the ground. > > LED lights contain absolutely no mercury or toxic chemicals, and > conventional LEDs are made from a variety of inorganic semiconductor > materials. They don't > generate RF wavelengths that cause radio interference, or emit ultraviolet > (UV) light -- so LEDs will not readily attract bugs and other insects. > > For these reasons (very high energy efficient and the absence of toxic > materials), I launched > www.EcoLEDs.com > in 2007, a company that now offers over a dozen LED light bulbs for > consumer > use, ranging in power from 3 watts to 10 watts (equivalent to a 100-watt > incandescent > light). These bulbs substantially reduce CO2 emissions due to their high > energy efficiency. To learn more, visit > www.BetterLifeGoods.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:06 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] WOW, FYI, News Release: Bulbs To Save Energy Are > Very Dangerous To Children > > >> Bulbs To Save Energy Are Very Dangerous To Children >> >> >> September 30, 2007 >> >> Environmentally Friendly Bulbs To Save Energy Are Very Dangerous To >> Children >> By Thomas M. Dutkiewicz >> >> Forestville, CT - Why is the media acts so surprised that these new bulbs >> to save energy are dangerous? To say that these bulbs are >> environmentally >> friendly is an oxymoron. They are anything but friendly . . . they are >> dangerous to the environment and to all children. >> >> They are florescence bulbs and all florescence bulbs contain dangerous >> Mercury Vapor which is more dangerous than mercury liquid. For decades >> they have been putting mercury vapor in the bulbs. That's what make them >> work. >> >> Mercury in a liquid form can be seen and it balls up which is easier to >> clean up. Mercury vapor on the other hand can not be seen nor can it be >> detected by home owners. You need a special air monitoring device that >> detects the presences of mercury vapor along the floor. You will not >> find >> it in your breathing zone. >> >> The specific gravity of mercury vapor is heavier than air and will settle >> into your rugs and stay there. So next time you break one of these bulbs >> in your home, you are exposing your children to mercury vapor. So >> remember this when you place your baby or children on the floor. >> >> You need a special absorption pellet that absorbs mercury vapor on the >> floor. Then the hazmat team must vacuum it up and dispose of the pellet >> as a contaminated material. You then go in with monitoring equipment to >> see if there is any residual mercury left and if there is, you repeat the >> process. >> >> Every single florescence bulb in our schools, lunch rooms, grocery stores >> contain mercury vapor. The mercury vapor is dangerous to all humans >> especially children. Business should not be throwing florescence bulbs >> away in dumpsters which then ends up in our water systems. >> >> What's even more deadlier is all of the older ballasts that are running >> these florescence bulbs, they contain Polychlorinated Biphenyl's or >> PCB's. >> In business renovations these contaminated ballasts are thrown out which >> contain liquid PCB's which also gets into our water system. >> >> Home owners now have treat these bulbs as a hazardous material as defined >> by the EPA and the DOT and dispose of them properly. The cost of >> disposal >> will over shadow the cost savings. A couple of manufactures do print >> this >> mercury warning on the packaging but no one ever reads the packaging of a >> light bulb. >> >> The undersign has been in the hazardous waste, remediation and >> transportation business for many years. He has cleaned up mercury vapor >> as well as other numerous spills of various kinds. >> >> >> Thomas M. Dutkiewicz >> P.O. Box 9775 >> Forestville, CT 06011-9775 >> 860-833-4127 >> >> >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.35/1039 - Release Date: > 9/29/2007 > 9:46 PM > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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