Cite on my statement below:
http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=301
See comment #2 in particular. Comments #13 & #23, as well.
(And I myself cannot handle being in a room with compact fluorescents for
more than about 3 minutes.)
Julia
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Julia Thompson wrote:
> Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
>> http://enews.penton.com/enews/powerquality/power_quality_news_beat/2007_march_16_march_16_2007/display
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2orhxz
>>
>>
>> A recent article in the New York Times reports that a coalition of
>> industrialists, environmentalists, and energy specialists is banding
>> together to try to eliminate the incandescent light bulb in about 10
>> years.
>>
>> In a recently announced agreement, the coalition members, including
>> Philips Lighting, the largest manufacturer of incandescent light
>> bulbs; the Natural Resources Defense Council; and two efficiency
>> organizations, are pledging to press for efficiency standards at the
>> local, state, and federal levels. The standards would phase out the
>> ordinary screw-in bulb, technology that arose around the time of the
>> telegraph and the steam locomotive, and replace it with compact
>> fluorescents, light-emitting diodes, halogen devices, and other
>> technologies that may emerge.
>>
>>
>> The article goes on to say that the agreement is a compromise among
>> the participants. Some favored an outright ban on incandescent bulbs,
>> like the one Australia said last month it would seek by 2009 or 2010.
>> Philips, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, has
>> pledged with others doing business in Europe to seek a shift to more
>> efficient lighting there, too.
>>
>>
>> The announcement commits coalition members to seek "a market phaseout"
>> by 2016. General Electric, the largest American manufacturer of
>> lighting, has recently been campaigning against the elimination of
>> incandescent bulbs, and promising instead to bring out a new model
>> that is twice as efficient as its current bulbs. The company is not
>> part of the new coalition, but has allied itself with the Natural
>> Resources Defense Council in another group called the United States
>> Carbon Action Program, which seeks to control emissions of greenhouse
>> gases through energy conservation.
>>
>>
>>
>> xponent
>>
>> A Good Idea Maru
>>
>> rob
>
> Yes, an absolutely wonderful idea that disregards the fact that a number
> of people, including a significant number of autistic people, have
> problems under fluorescents (even the compact ones) and LEDs.
>
> If some exception is made for medical/neurological reasons, to where you
> could still get the incandescents if you were unable to function under
> any other sort of artificial lighting (and there are individuals with
> this problem, who have tried everything and had to go back to the
> incandescents), then I could get behind it -- but without that
> exception, I cannot support it, no matter how much it will do for the
> environment.
>
> Julia
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