Fear ye not the mercury doomsayers

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Tony — 12/21/2007 4:49:21 PM (archived)

someone's back of the envelope calculation
or
An old govt PDF

In short, the mercury in a CFL is less than the mercury output from the average power station for incandescents over the CFL's lifetime.

Now whether you get local problems with a whole bunch of discarded CFls in landfills is another matter.

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HOW MANY More Years will it take to BAN Incadescent Light Bulbs? - carl - 12/20/2007 5:24:17 PM
- CFL's - azstrummer - 12/20/2007 9:27:57 PM
- I buy the new sorts mainly... - alcaray - 12/20/2007 8:13:55 PM
  - If they're such a great deal, why the need to ban incandescents? (n/t) - TB - 12/20/2007 8:45:09 PM
    - government-sponsored energy independence? - alcaray - 12/21/2007 1:00:25 AM
    - Because the post turtles need something to do. - TAFKASE - 12/20/2007 10:37:29 PM
    - Inertia, ignorance, innumeracy and inability to calculate value, shortsightedness, willful perversity - Robert - 12/20/2007 9:02:32 PM
      - re: Inertia, ignorance, innumeracy and inability to calculate value, shortsightedness, willful perversity - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/21/2007 1:02:26 AM
      - How about arrogant authoritarianism? - TB - 12/20/2007 10:10:07 PM
        
        Bush is promoting CFLs? Nonsense! (n/t) - Bowser - 12/21/2007 2:53:41 AM
      - ...mercury... - Mary Anne - 12/20/2007 9:40:00 PM
        
        Fear ye not the mercury doomsayers - Tony - 12/21/2007 4:49:21 PM
        
        Not a nuclear power station. - TB - 12/21/2007 7:49:06 PM
        
        You have put your finger on my fear precisely. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 12/21/2007 5:37:18 PM
        
        Thousands! You mean millions - probably billions. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/21/2007 12:04:55 AM
        
        Thousands -- because they last so long. - Mary Anne - 12/21/2007 1:59:04 AM
        
        re: Thousands -- because they last so long. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/21/2007 10:57:52 PM
        
        re: Thousands! You mean millions - probably billions. - Marcia - 12/21/2007 1:09:24 AM
        
        re: ...mercury... - exactly. - Marcia - 12/20/2007 10:40:08 PM
        
        re: ...mercury... - TB - 12/20/2007 10:19:53 PM
        
        re: ...mercury... - those too! (n/t) - Marcia - 12/20/2007 10:42:16 PM
      - Do you think the police should shoot out the bulbs, or the people, or both? - Bowser - 12/20/2007 9:36:14 PM

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