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  • Massive Groundwater Mercury Cleanup

    Is it five years from now when the first big wave of long-lasting CFL bulbs will hit American garbage cans? I understand that it's more mercury in the air today to generate electricity for incandescents than is used in the CFL bulbs today. But our children or grandchildren will curse us and pay billions to clean-up the groundwater polluted by ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by ScheduleC on February 13, 2008

  • Pushing CFL bulbs is highly irresponsible!

    The Fray's pushing for CFL bulbs is a highly irresponsible, and somewhat mis-informed effort. People being what they are, most will continue to throw away CFLs in the trash, where they're broken, releasing the mercury into landfills, then runoff, ground water, and finally the oceans, where it's concentrated by the various food layers until we ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by swamper777 on February 9, 2008

  • On mercury, and alternatives

    Actually, coal has a tremendous amount of mercury (Hg) in it. In fact, the 3-4x reduction in electricity use more than makes up for the minute amount of mercury in the CFL. Burning it and sending it up the stack is much worse for our health, but it would be best to recycle (as we shoudl with all flourescent bulbs) There is also another form of ...
    Posted to The Spectator by dbhuff on February 2, 2008

  • Mercury in CFL bulbs

    ... is a red herring. A stupid one. Coal-fired power plants, the top source of U.S. electricity, are also one of the top sources of mercury pollution in the U.S [PDF]. The electricity saved by using a CFL bulb instead of incandescents is also (in most of the country) mercury that isn't emitted by a coal plant - more mercury than is in that CFL ...
    Posted to The Spectator by jbyoder on January 30, 2008

  • CFL environmental hazard

    Ok, the CFL's save energy in producing light with less energy and less energy is needed to counter the heat produced by the bulb. What about the mercury in the bulb? We consumers are trained to throw away old light bulbs. Will the mercury in these bulbs end up in our landfills? And if you break one at home, will you have a mercury problem in ...
    Posted to Moneybox by wmdaniel on October 7, 2007

  • Compact Fluorescents and Mercury

    Compact fluorescents contain mercury, and there is no convenient way right now to recycle them properly so that mercury pollution can be prevented. So our switch to those bulbs will be accompanied by a huge increase in mercury pollution - which is far more dangerous than global warming. Help!
    Posted to Moneybox by Johnnyboy2 on October 7, 2007