Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seriously don't believe there is mercury in floressent bulbs. You need a floressent gas like neon... ----- Original Message ----- From: Max Robinson To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] WOW, FYI, News Release: Bulbs To Save Energy Are Very Dangerous To Children
They are written by weak minded people who exaggerate the danger by a factor of 1000. Mercury vapor will dissipate within a few minutes. How often do light bulbs get broken. I doubt if we have broken 5 bulbs in 36 years of living here. 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: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] WOW, FYI, News Release: Bulbs To Save Energy Are Very Dangerous To Children > Could be but why do these messages always come written with incorrect > grammar and spelling? > > It is a conspiracy to retard the language skills of our children, the > generation we will depend on to keep what ever sort of lights burning into > the future. > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Barbara > To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 9:06 PM > 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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