These bulbs are hard to break. I've replaced every light bulb in the house with em. My light bill went down $30 a month. Now for saving some money I'm going to die of mercury poisoning.
Filling Your Home With Mercury Via CFL
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Originally Posted By: tmorris1
LCDs are refreshed like a standard tube CRT. There is 60Hz all over your house. That is the frequency of the 120V AC power.
LEDs are powered by DC so there should be no flicker.
That's a misconception. LCD are on between refresh unlike CRT, so their intensity is more uniform between refresh. The only flicker depends on how the back light is done. LCD with CFL or LED back light powered by your laptop's battery is also DC and should not flicker. If your LED back light or any LED device (like OLED for example) is powered by a rectified AC output, it can still flicker when constantly on.
As you can see, it all depends on the implementations.
LCDs are refreshed like a standard tube CRT. There is 60Hz all over your house. That is the frequency of the 120V AC power.
LEDs are powered by DC so there should be no flicker.
That's a misconception. LCD are on between refresh unlike CRT, so their intensity is more uniform between refresh. The only flicker depends on how the back light is done. LCD with CFL or LED back light powered by your laptop's battery is also DC and should not flicker. If your LED back light or any LED device (like OLED for example) is powered by a rectified AC output, it can still flicker when constantly on.
As you can see, it all depends on the implementations.
Originally Posted By: Jeff3126
I recall a guy who worked in a flourescent bulb factory saying that the mercury exposure can happen only if the bulb is broken while lit...
I heard the same thing... I think it has to do with the electric current keeping the mercury vaporized and when the bulb is off the Mercury droplet condenses back to it's liquid drop state.
I recall a guy who worked in a flourescent bulb factory saying that the mercury exposure can happen only if the bulb is broken while lit...
I heard the same thing... I think it has to do with the electric current keeping the mercury vaporized and when the bulb is off the Mercury droplet condenses back to it's liquid drop state.
Originally Posted By: Nayov
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
It's durable, cheap and easy to use and except when used in conjunction with a tinfoil hat, safe.
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
It's durable, cheap and easy to use and except when used in conjunction with a tinfoil hat, safe.
Originally Posted By: Jeff3126
I recall a guy who worked in a flourescent bulb factory saying that the mercury exposure can happen only if the bulb is broken while lit.
I throw burnt-out CFLs out of my truck window while driving.
As long as your or the bulbs aren't lit....
I recall a guy who worked in a flourescent bulb factory saying that the mercury exposure can happen only if the bulb is broken while lit.
I throw burnt-out CFLs out of my truck window while driving.
As long as your or the bulbs aren't lit....
Originally Posted By: Nayov
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
Because they did not have CFL bulbs yet? Now that we have them all the mercury is going there...
Originally Posted By: XS650
Originally Posted By: Nayov
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
It's durable, cheap and easy to use and except when used in conjunction with a tinfoil hat, safe.
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
Because they did not have CFL bulbs yet? Now that we have them all the mercury is going there...
Originally Posted By: XS650
Originally Posted By: Nayov
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
It's durable, cheap and easy to use and except when used in conjunction with a tinfoil hat, safe.
Originally Posted By: 440Magnum
What a load. CFLs have less mercury than the fluorescent tubes we've been using for 50 years. Yeah, use common sense. When you drop one, don't take a dozen deep breaths and snort all the mercury you can (unless you have syphilis, but even if you inhaled all the mercury in the bulb it wouldn't be enough to cure the disease... IOW doctors used to ADMINISTER more mercury than you get in a CFL). Air out the room, sweep up the debris, and GET A LIFE if all you can do is worry about the few micrograms of mercury that were in the bulb.
Maybe that is why I do not have syphilis!!!
What a load. CFLs have less mercury than the fluorescent tubes we've been using for 50 years. Yeah, use common sense. When you drop one, don't take a dozen deep breaths and snort all the mercury you can (unless you have syphilis, but even if you inhaled all the mercury in the bulb it wouldn't be enough to cure the disease... IOW doctors used to ADMINISTER more mercury than you get in a CFL). Air out the room, sweep up the debris, and GET A LIFE if all you can do is worry about the few micrograms of mercury that were in the bulb.
Maybe that is why I do not have syphilis!!!
Something is going to get you sooner or later, besides it is all in the genetics. We are lucky to live in abundance so we have time to worry about these kinds of things and if syn oil is really the best ETC. Or how about riding a motorcycle or skydiving or racing a car then worrying about the mercury in a lightbulb?
Originally Posted By: Nayov
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
Because members of our congress aren't the brightest bulbs around.
Also, because it's cheap, strong, and *seems* to be safe in *most* people. To heck with the small % of people that seem to have problems with it or the 344,000 results that come up when mercury toxicity is googled.. I'm sure it's all propaganda. May as well make tin hat jokes about it and pretend we're bulletproof.
Can someone explain why they put mercury in dental fillings?
Because members of our congress aren't the brightest bulbs around.
Also, because it's cheap, strong, and *seems* to be safe in *most* people. To heck with the small % of people that seem to have problems with it or the 344,000 results that come up when mercury toxicity is googled.. I'm sure it's all propaganda. May as well make tin hat jokes about it and pretend we're bulletproof.
You ever take those big, long fluorescent bulbs and sword fight with them? I did that a bunch as a kid. It was great.
I've done this as an adult, too. Usually in conjunction with loud, rowdy drunkenness and fireworks. Put it on your bucket list. Trust me.
We also used to break thermometers (back when they still had mercury in them) and gather up all the mercury to play like it was the terminator in T2. Of course, my parents were very serious about not actually touching the mercury.
I've done this as an adult, too. Usually in conjunction with loud, rowdy drunkenness and fireworks. Put it on your bucket list. Trust me.
We also used to break thermometers (back when they still had mercury in them) and gather up all the mercury to play like it was the terminator in T2. Of course, my parents were very serious about not actually touching the mercury.
HAHAHAHAHA
I have the mercury amalgam dental crown (not just a filling, a whole crown) right after I can afford dental care after my first job (from being uninsured for 20 years). The dentist said the last tooth on my lower left side (jaw) cannot be porcelain because it is too fragile for the chewing. After 10 years they seems to be still good and I haven't died yet.
My intelligence may be dropping but I blame most of that on the 10 hours a day work and aging.
My weight fluctuate between overweight and underweight due to stress and whether I live at home eating off my mom's cooking or living with my wife cooking the fat free everything 1300 calories a day diet we share.
I am aware of the risk and will probably check my blood soon, but so far they seems ok. If mercury doesn't work I might switch to gold. Darn expensive however.
My intelligence may be dropping but I blame most of that on the 10 hours a day work and aging.
My weight fluctuate between overweight and underweight due to stress and whether I live at home eating off my mom's cooking or living with my wife cooking the fat free everything 1300 calories a day diet we share.
I am aware of the risk and will probably check my blood soon, but so far they seems ok. If mercury doesn't work I might switch to gold. Darn expensive however.
I was an electronics tech for 25 yrs and soldered pc boards 8 hrs a day.
The Pb must have neutralized the Hg in my bloodstream ...
The Pb must have neutralized the Hg in my bloodstream ...
Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
You ever take those big, long fluorescent bulbs and sword fight with them? I did that a bunch as a kid. It was great.
My first official job was at a Shell service station after they went from yellow/red flouros around the forecourt perimeter to plain white.
Boss told me to take an entire ute load of tubes to the dump.
When I got back 4 hours later, he proclaimed that it doesn't take 3 hours to empty a ute load of flouros...then accepted that it was entirely possible for an 18 year old to take that time for the task.
At work, there are lots and lots of long tubes. When they are changed (on routine rather than failure), they are broken into a 44Gal (your 55gal) drum.
You ever take those big, long fluorescent bulbs and sword fight with them? I did that a bunch as a kid. It was great.
My first official job was at a Shell service station after they went from yellow/red flouros around the forecourt perimeter to plain white.
Boss told me to take an entire ute load of tubes to the dump.
When I got back 4 hours later, he proclaimed that it doesn't take 3 hours to empty a ute load of flouros...then accepted that it was entirely possible for an 18 year old to take that time for the task.
At work, there are lots and lots of long tubes. When they are changed (on routine rather than failure), they are broken into a 44Gal (your 55gal) drum.
His article didn't mean to scare any of you. He posts this type of stuff on his website, and if you subscribe he'll email you a newsletter once or twice a week with these articles. I copied it and pasted it here after someone had posted it on a health forum.
Most of his audience are health nuts like me, and this type of article doesn't scare most of us because we're used to him, Mercola, and others with their health articles. If anything, they usually makes us more aware.
I'll think twice about posting any more of his articles here at BITOG in the future. It's a toxic world we live in and it seems that some people would rather not hear about it here at BITOG whether it's true or not.
Most of his audience are health nuts like me, and this type of article doesn't scare most of us because we're used to him, Mercola, and others with their health articles. If anything, they usually makes us more aware.
I'll think twice about posting any more of his articles here at BITOG in the future. It's a toxic world we live in and it seems that some people would rather not hear about it here at BITOG whether it's true or not.
I don't buy this "Toxic World" [censored]... Explain then how people that grew up with leaded gas, lead paint, DDT etc. are living just as longer in some cases than people who drink filtered water and eat organic and have air cleaners in their house and then die of Cancer.
Sorry IMO this doesn't fly.
Sorry IMO this doesn't fly.
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