The dark side of the CFL

Xringer · 09-18-10, 04:37 PM

The dark side of the CFL is a Youtube video that I just viewed..

YouTube - The dark side of the CFL

Here's site that seems to be anti-CFL

The Dark Side Of CFLs

These ideas about harmful radiation from AC lines have been around for years..

As a kid, I remember thinking that florescent tube lighting at school were giving me headaches.

Years later I read a study that found soft X-rays from the ends of the tubes
were found to make the children in classrooms hyperactive.

The researchers covered the ends of the tubes with metals foil to block the X-rays and the hyperactive kids settled right down.

The before & after results were obtained using time-lapse cameras to record activity.
The difference was like night and day.

Their theory:
Soft X-rays were penetrating into brains of the students..

Clev · 09-19-10, 03:08 AM

There was so much misinformation in that link that I only got about a third of the way through before I had to stop reading.

Patrick · 09-19-10, 08:16 AM

That sounds like it was written by GE (the developer of the new "efficient incandescent").

Mercury is bad for you? You mean I shouldn't have been playing with that mercury blob from the thermometer I broke when I was 9? What about all those old 4' tubes I broke to get them to fit in my trash can? I'm gonna die! Oh no! I think I'll have some more crab and shrimp at lunch today.

The article says that you have to replace the heat energy not produced by a CFL in order to heat a room. But I have the opposite problem. Most of my power goes to cooling, so if I keep incandescents I need to run my A/C longer to pump the extra heat out of my house.

Xringer · 09-19-10, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clev

There was so much misinformation in that link that I only got about a third of the way through before I had to stop reading.

It's too bad you stopped. The comments section really ripped up the article.
It got a bunch of comments about the volt amps..

Xringer · 09-19-10, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patrick

That sounds like it was written by GE (the developer of the new "efficient incandescent").

Mercury is bad for you? You mean I shouldn't have been playing with that mercury blob from the thermometer I broke when I was 9? What about all those old 4' tubes I broke to get them to fit in my trash can? I'm gonna die! Oh no! I think I'll have some more crab and shrimp at lunch today.

The article says that you have to replace the heat energy not produced by a CFL in order to heat a room. But I have the opposite problem. Most of my power goes to cooling, so if I keep incandescents I need to run my A/C longer to pump the extra heat out of my house.

I knew it was poison, but mercury is so much fun to play with!
(When I was young and dumb).
I used to put sliver dimes into mercury and admire them. It was beautiful. The shiniest coin ever!
I suppose that chewing on soft lead wasn't good for me either..
Or removing hundreds of pounds of asbestos insulation (without protection)
while serving on the USS Wasp wasn't a good idea either..

I'm pretty sure the BTU output of my incan lighting isn't helping very
much in the winter time. Using this computer is going to help heat
this house a lot more than my incan lamps.. (Which are all on dimmers).

09-19-10, 08:16 AM	#3
Patrick Apprentice EcoRenovator Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: East Coast of Florida, USA Posts: 149 Thanks: 2 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	That sounds like it was written by GE (the developer of the new "efficient incandescent"). Mercury is bad for you? You mean I shouldn't have been playing with that mercury blob from the thermometer I broke when I was 9? What about all those old 4' tubes I broke to get them to fit in my trash can? I'm gonna die! Oh no! I think I'll have some more crab and shrimp at lunch today. The article says that you have to replace the heat energy not produced by a CFL in order to heat a room. But I have the opposite problem. Most of my power goes to cooling, so if I keep incandescents I need to run my A/C longer to pump the extra heat out of my house. Last edited by Patrick; 09-19-10 at 08:21 AM..

09-19-10, 03:08 AM	#2
Clev Wannabe greenie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Crestline, CA Posts: 74 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	There was so much misinformation in that link that I only got about a third of the way through before I had to stop reading.