Warning to those who use CFLS! (may be deadly?)

WorldNetDaily: Consumers in dark over risks of new light bulbs

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WASHINGTON â?? Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.

So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. A month later, her daughter's bedroom remains sealed off with plastic like the site of a hazardous materials accident, while Bridges works on a way to pay off a $2,000 estimate by a company specializing in environmentally sound cleanups of the mercury inside the bulb.

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Mercury has always been a component of flourescent lighting.
This is just another piss poor example of the media grasping at any fucking sensationalist story they hear of....
beeeeee afraid!!!! be VEEEERY afraid!

ima go home now and put on body armor and crawl into bed and stay there forever.... oh wait!!! dust mites are in your mattress!!! you could be at risk too!!!!

*crawls under bed*


I hope you're right!

I've busted a few of them in my closet..and once I torqued one too much when screwing it in and the pressure from me grabbing it made it bust. I'm alive? I hope at least, if not, then these muffins taste good as shit for being dead.

what risk does it present? there's nothing wrong with me..

Here's part of the MSDS for Hg vapor, enjoy.
Worst risks of low-level Hg exposure involve potential birth defects including developmental problems.
Mercury Vapor

been using cfl's for years ..this is just a media hype :)

I have been under Mercury lighing for years, just ask the head like growth on my back.

broke an 85w bulb the 1st day i got it... shattered everywhere. no harm done.

perfect example of why i dont read/watch the news daily. half is bs...

I stepped on one of my cfls once.

1 month later my legs fell off my arms were useless and now i'm a vegetable.

Hell no

isn't there safety risks with normal lightbulbs too.

Fucking media food as stinky said

its the electric companies leaking propaganda... prolly want there high watt bulbs back in the socket, lol

the 'mercury from lighting' scare is good for a few bucks (a motive, perhaps?) ... the local dump charges extra to accept the lamps ... whoops !, I dropped mine, and they broke, now I can just throw them in my own trash, for FREE :D ... my neighbor, the idiot tree-hugger, (trims his little lawn by hand, rather than risk polluting with a weedeater :wtf:), is worried because his old Toyota pickup is leaking oil, thus polluting the entire world, from his own driveway ... I asked him where the oil came from ? ... "didn't it come OUT of the ground ?", I asked ... "no, no, no", he explained, "it's different now, because MAN refined it" ... "you mean, MAN filtered it, and took the dirt out of it ?" I asked ... "I just can't talk to you", he says, going back into his home to read his Greenpeace brochures (he won't watch TV because of the radiation) ... :S3:

LMAO!

what he said^^^^

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Originally Posted by Gatekeeper777

I have been under Mercury lighing for years, just ask the head like growth on my back.

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haha...

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Originally Posted by Nocturnal Stoner

I stepped on one of my cfls once.

1 month later my legs fell off my arms were useless and now i'm a vegetable.

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LOL :thumbsup:

when we where teens we used to break into a load of old factories and smash up all the floresent lights in lightsabre duels, smashing them on each other.

its mint the proper big 6 fters

then we cleaned it up and played five a side, we played there for about 3 months

it was sick

till the police came and we all got chased.

then we got pulled up in school

and detentions and letters

the point being nothing came from the lights

snowblind

fucking bacon

thats fucked up that they exposed rabbits to mercury vapor over a six week period :wtf:

i used to play with liquid mercury when i was little... i would smash old thermometers to get to it....

and snowblind, you better believe that i had flourescant lightsaber duels too

irony!!!!!!!!!!!

so i read this, and i have a cfl on the table, it rolls off and breaks, right now! needless to say i picked up the shards with a paper towel; i hope i don't die :)

rock on hightillidie, they fucking rock. badass feeling when you smash em

i am an electritian and love haveing lightsaber duals with the old fluros we do it all the time and im normal(actualy the boss makes us break them to save space in the trashcans) so we do it the fun way

haha that's ridiculous.
also, hi, 1st post!

I've broken several CFLs and vacuumed them up with a shop vac(uh oh)

Its been a year and so far 0 casualties.
more at 11.

i've broken dozens of flouro tubes and cfls. i don't think anything is wrong with me.

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Originally Posted by snowblind

when we where teens we used to break into a load of old factories and smash up all the floresent lights in lightsabre duels, smashing them on each other.

its mint the proper big 6 fters

then we cleaned it up and played five a side, we played there for about 3 months

it was sick

till the police came and we all got chased.

then we got pulled up in school

and detentions and letters

the point being nothing came from the lights

snowblind

fucking bacon

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I'm pretty sure I saw you in a movie.

I guess we just call the envirement controll people in when we need to change our light bulbs so that we can do it properly.

nO Really be alarmed! once I broke one of these and my left testicle emitted a strange orange ultraviolet grow for 2 weeks.

lol. ive got a plastic vial of about 3ml of murcury, (from 5 thermostats) and its great to play with.

i have a lid and aoid fumes of course. cool stuff tho. it reminds me of a silver flubber

Nther really isn't that much murcury in them. You'd have to break them and sniff them like those old time poppers and sniff the fumes of a couple to hurt you. Though I don't reccomend it. I agree, this is just media hype on a slow news day. They've probably been sitting on this story for a while.

its like lead in everything. sure its bad, but has the world ended because the last several generations of man were exposed to it?

Mercury can be deadly- it's not something you should ever play with. Use proper ppe if you have to handle it- nitrile or equivalent gloves, long sleeves, eye protection, and ventilation.

just dont break your bulb... i ve had cfls i have never broken one...

its bad for sure, but not if it cracks while your near it. those kids who smash the dead 48inch ones behind the grocery plaza arnt all in hospital now...

Ok people here's the deal. If you want to grow your crops healthy and huge do this:

You go around to everybody in the neighborhood, announcing that you will come get their spent fluorescent bulbs for free. The word will get out and soon you will have piles and piles of beautiful bulbs. Put these through a small grinder, and then a shaker and screen, and/or possibly some chemical process (calling all chemists) that would separate all this alleged bad stuff. Fill up jars of this mercury, phosphorus, lead or whatever you kind find. Get your friends to help you in exchange for a little weed. Pour the stuff on your cereal, mix it in a meatloaf, or whatever, but get it into your guys' systems, and do it as much and as often as you possibly can. Not many people know this, but your liver just happens to filter out everything that a weed plant cannot use in the process of growing. What is left is passed into your bladder to be expelled into your urine. Now here is the key people: These substances or chemicals are rare and precious. Plants absolutely go crazy when a little of this urine is introduced into the system. It only takes a little because it is super concentrated. Let me tell you I have seen the results of grows using this method, and without exaggeration I can honestly say that growth is at least 2 times as fast and 3 times as big. This produces a yield roughly 3 times the normal amount. I highly recommend trying this in your grow, or perhaps even start a business marketing this stuff.

I hope that helps a little.


INCIDENTALLY I'VE NEVER BROKEN ONE EITHER.

uh...wha?

id call you a retard, but youv gven me too much help in the past. :rasta:

I think you just did.

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Originally Posted by Opie Yutts

Ok people here's the deal. If you want to grow your crops healthy and huge do this:

You go around to everybody in the neighborhood, announcing that you will come get their spent fluorescent bulbs for free. The word will get out and soon you will have piles and piles of beautiful bulbs. Put these through a small grinder, and then a shaker and screen, and/or possibly some chemical process (calling all chemists) that would separate all this alleged bad stuff. Fill up jars of this mercury, phosphorus, lead or whatever you kind find. Get your friends to help you in exchange for a little weed. Pour the stuff on your cereal, mix it in a meatloaf, or whatever, but get it into your guys' systems, and do it as much and as often as you possibly can. Not many people know this, but your liver just happens to filter out everything that a weed plant cannot use in the process of growing. What is left is passed into your bladder to be expelled into your urine. Now here is the key people: These substances or chemicals are rare and precious. Plants absolutely go crazy when a little of this urine is introduced into the system. It only takes a little because it is super concentrated. Let me tell you I have seen the results of grows using this method, and without exaggeration I can honestly say that growth is at least 2 times as fast and 3 times as big. This produces a yield roughly 3 times the normal amount. I highly recommend trying this in your grow, or perhaps even start a business marketing this stuff.

I hope that helps a little.


INCIDENTALLY I'VE NEVER BROKEN ONE EITHER.

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Thats very intelligent but STUPID, i dont think the human body can take in too much minerals such as LEAD, MERCURY(this alone will kill you).....But I've broken a bunch of CFL's before and im fine, but never tried digesting the dose in foods...

I LOVE MEATLOAF, :rastasmoke:

lol i love ya yutts. unfortuantely im struggling between taking it as a joke and believeing you because you are my god....:hippy:

lol, Long Joke...I hope no one takes this serious....SOrry Yutts, You are one of the Intelligent Elites so seeing this from your point suprised me...

What I'm afraid of is people simply throwing these bulbs away like regular bulbs and rainwater et other water which flows through trash will somehow contaminate drinking water. Actually water from dump sites is usually collected and treated but still heavy metals are hard to get out, more mercury in the landfill isn't a good idea. Any heavy metal is dangerous, though you wont feel any effects from it immediately. A large dose of mercury (much much more than the dose contained in a cfl) will in fact make you very sick. What usually happens though is you are occasionally exposed to small doses and your body absorbs a small portion of this dose. The mercury is absorbed and builds up in your brain tissue and is hypothetically a cause of alzheimers, parkinsons etc. any degenerative brain tissue disease. Also HID lamps contain mercury, so does pretty much all water and soil, only in minute amounts. You could go all your life doing lightsaber battles, eating shark meat (the fish containing the most mercury) and breaking cfls and you might never feel any side effects but the fact is mercury directly destroys nervous tissue, whether this is what happens in your brain when you ingest mercury is not clear but I would still not suggest playing with any mercury and properly recycling it, but there is no need to get all paranoid like the writers of that crazy ass article.

^^^good post^^^
Read more about how heavy metals build up in the ecosystem...
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