On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Dan Lau wrote:
:On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:30, Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>re. swithing off lamps etc.
:>I would suggest that you look into compact florescents, a la Philips
:>EarthLights. Color (to the eye) is comparable to that od an incandescent
:>(golden hue), but it's still florescent (pictures turn out green...).
:
:Now we seemed to have come full circle. Doesn't florescent lights
:use mercury vapor inside the tubes? You are damned if you do and
:damned if you don't. In the name of saving electricity (and therefore
:the environment), we are exposing some workers to mercury poisoning.
That's what I suspected, but upon asking some people, they said "no". I
beleive this was in sci.engr.lighting, but not sure.
/Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
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