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John Mayer, 'Stop This Train'

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Interesting Times2/16/2011 6:22:53 am PST

re: #384 njdhockeyfan

I’m old school I guess. The CF bulbs just don’t have the warmth look in a room like standard bulbs do. The issue with mercury in CF bulbs concerns me as well.

Mercury Emissions Up at Coal-Burning Power Plants

The top 50 most-polluting coal-burning power plants in the United States emitted 20 tons of toxic mercury into the air in 2007, finds a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project…Once released into the atmosphere, mercury settles in lakes and rivers, where it moves up the food chain to humans who eat contaminated fish. The Centers for Disease Control has found that six percent of American women have mercury in their blood at levels that would put a fetus at risk of neurological damage.

Compared to…

The amount of mercury in a CFLs glass tubing is minute; each Project Porchlight CFL bulb contains 2.5 mg of mercury, about the size of a period at the end of a sentence. By comparison, watch batteries and four -foot fluorescent tubes contain about 25 mg, older home thermostats contain 500 mg, and older dental fillings contain 100 to 500 mg of mercury.