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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND green living AND mercury AND toxics
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Eau de Bulb
On smelly CFLs (and mercury too) |
Umbra Fisk |
12 Jun 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, We have been replacing our incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, but we notice that the compact fluorescents have an odd smell. Are they emitting something we should know about? Compact fluorescent bulbs contain mercury; can the bulbs discharge the mercury into the air? Tom Murphy Wellsboro, Pa. Dearest Tom, I don't know of anything that would be emitted from your bulbs and smell. If it is you ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, mercury, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Illumin-Naughty
On mercury in compact fluorescent lights |
Umbra Fisk |
16 Jan 2003 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Here in Texas, where it is very hot in the summer (granted, we deserve to be in hell for having produced George Bush), some of us have been enthusiastically switching our light bulbs to cooler compact fluorescents. Is this a bad thing due to the mercury they contain? Lisa Smithville, Texas Dearest Lisa, Thanks for your question, as it will allow me to keep shedding light on the compact fluoresc ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, mercury, toxics (all these topics) |
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