How can CFL bulbs increase the mercury in the environment, when the mercury in them...

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...came from the environment?
LEDs are too low voltage and burn out too easy in electrical storms. Notice the LED traffic lights keep getting black spots on them from the burnt out LEDs...
 
Uh oh... there you go, questioning authority.. Expect a visit from the EPA black helicopters or the Thought Police late this evening... better tell your boss you might not be in for work tomorrow....

The Chosen Ones don't take well to having their beliefs challenged.
 
It's a different use of the term. The environment as a whole vs. the environment limited to your home.

Either way, there is no significant safety risk involved if you use the bulbs properly.
 
Can't, and this is just another scare subject, for those that don't want to change over to the cfl's.
The average cell phone battery contains five time the mercury as the largest cfl, and the average home thermostat contains 25 times more as does the normal mercury filled health thermometer.
I will admit that these bulbs are really not worth the money, do not have the same light output as the incandescent bulb of the same rating, and I have yet to have one last as long as advertised, not even close, and the new LED's are even worse.
In less than four months I have had six, CFL's and two Leds burn out, a far cry from the advertised 30,000 hours or five years average life promised.
 
Well, it gathers mercury from where it occurs naturally & the environment around it is used to it & brougt to areas that have no mercury...& in very concentrated forms, which can be extremely harmful. A dump, ful;l of cfls, leeching into the water...can you say "Love Canal"?
 
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