No carbon used there, except in the generator brushes.

http://www.nowpublic.com/healt.....bulbs-cfls

further many concerned customers are reporting to GE about CFL lights
white coloring, smoking, and foul oder. When this occurs in an “unbroken”
CFL light bulb is causing hazardous toxic phosphor in the air. It causes cancer, mental problems, etc.

What’s really scary is all these new rules that all these CFL bulbs even if they “don’t break”, have to be treated like Hazardous waste. As far as “old” light bulbs, I could find nothing on them having to be treated as Hazardous waste, taken to Home Depot etc. etc. or you will have to save them for periodical pick-ups you will pay your garbage collecters.

And when the old lightbulbs can be used til 2012, I could not find one site that tells of the dangerous in broken ones, how to dispose, clean up, and so if they were as dangerous, they’d be telling people they must treat them the same as CFL. ince they will be used til 2012. They would defintely be telling people to do this, so they would switch immediately to CFL.
This is so comparable to the FDA and pharmacutical companies. New medications are barely tested, and checked before being given to the public. And why do the new CFL’s cost so much.
It’s like the FDA approving new prescriptions left and right. I always check the interent. One med I was given I first looked on internet, had only been tested on 1000 people for a short period. I mean look at the commercials that name side-affects.

Oh, the insanity.

Last year I disassembled my shower head to increase the pressure and flow beyond what the environmentalists allowed. It is soooo much better now.

I “also” use them up where the air is rare and in desk lamps so I don’t feel the heat on my hands, summer and winter. And for the, I hope, long life.

Any one who has been using incandescent lights for part of the heating system must have his lights on all the time and if he was rational would have already converted to flourescent to save on energy costs.

Use what you want to.

That sums it up I believe.

Well, I was in the Submarine Service for 8 years and 4 months. That count? Oh, it was nuclear powered. Can’t have that now, can we, comrades! All power (electrical and otherwise) to the Soviets!

Someone have the facts on this deadline?

I’ve seen those “disposal rules” before. If it wasn’t so serious and idiotic it would be funny. The length alone would make you laugh.

Who’s going to want to do all that? Over a single LIGHTBULB?

We have dimmers all thru our house. Most of the time they are on very dim…there by saving energy. You can’t use dimmers with the “screwy” light bulbs.

You have to wait for them to warm up, so if you are just going into a room for a moment or so, you will be in the dark the whole time or you will wind up just leaving them on so you don’t have to wait for them.

Kind of like Kind of like “low flow toilets. They use 30% less water per flush, but you have to flush them twice.” as BannedbytheTaliban said.

How stupid are these people? They’d trip over a dollar to save a dime and can’t see further than their own noses.

We are going to stockpile the old favorite incandesant bulbs!

The world is going nuts!!!

10-7

That does not crank my tractor.

Sorry for the misspelling, I never could spell or salute very good. ;)