I wonder what the professional fear mongers will say when they find out that LED lights contain arsenic. I'm not making that up. They really do.
Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] WOW, FYI, News Release: Bulbs To Save Energy Are Very Dangerous To Children > thanks for this Ray! > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Ray Boyce wrote: > >> 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. 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