Journal mattatwork's Journal: A truly inconvenient Truh 1
I received an interesting email from my mother-in-law, and then had it forwarded again by my wife. According to WorldNetDaily, Compact Flourescent lamps (or CFL's) contain a significant amount of Mercury. While you're saving the world from global warming, you're also putting yourself and other carbon based life forms at risk to mercury poisoning. One of the victims of a CFL's mercury found out the hard and high priced way that removing the mercury couldn't be done with a simple vacuum, but by a specialized enviremental cleanup firm for around $2000. You would think someone like Al Gore, father of the Internet, would think twice before pushing a technology like CFL, still in its infancy, on consumers who don't or didn't know the risks. I know that when I get home tonight, I'm taking out my CFL's and replacing them with good ol' incandescents.
Mercury poisoning (Score:1)
Liquid mercury has never been implicated in any sort of health hazard, only mercury vapor but there's only one problem with that--the only way to make mercury produce any sort of vapor is to place it in an evacuated tube and hit it with an electrical charge.
Under standard temperature and pressure mercury does not behave in a vaporous manner the same way that an aroma, steam, carbon dioxide, or car exhaust does. Once the vacuum tube is broken the indivi