As you’ve probably heard, there’s a move afoot in both the US and UK to ban
incandescent light bulbs in 2010. A lawyer is framing a challenge to it on
ADA grounds: fluorescent lights have adverse affects on people with epilepsy,
migraines, autism, lupus, other neurological conditions… and therefore,
“reasonable accommodation” of those conditions would require the continuing
availability of the traditional light bulbs that don’t affect us.
However, here’s some information that also challenges it on environmental
grounds.
We all need to be writing to our elected officials to enlighten them that
this is NOT a good decision.
Tony writes: “This article is on Russ Andrews’ website. Russ probably knows
more about mains electricity in the UK than any other person.â€Â
My tests have shown that the CFLs use half the power of a 60W lamp, not
quarter as stated and that’s before taking into account the extra power the
supplier must generate.
The net result of using CFLs is that there is no saving whatever…… quite
the opposite; the electricity supply system has doubled its output and doubled
its carbon emissions. The more people use CFLs, the worse the problem will
become. And that’s before we’ve even talked about the fact that CFLs use
mercury in their construction, which leads to more issues in their disposal.
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