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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Trifecta of Doom, now with skin cancer!
If the mercury poisoning and electrical smog don't kill us, the skin cancer will.
Energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs popular among environmentalists are harmful to skin, researchers at a New York university have found.
Phosphor coatings on the bulbs wear off, the study from Stony Brook University on Long Island reported in the study published by in the journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology.
The scientists, led by Miriam Rafailovich, collected CFL bulbs from across Long Island to measure the amount of UV the bulbs gave off. They were alarmed at how many of the bulbs' phosphor coatings were lacking, causing them to leak significant levels of UVC and UVA.
"Our study revealed that the response of healthy skin cells to UV emitted from CFL bulbs is consistent with damage from ultraviolet radiation," said Rafailovich. (Read More)
Crappy light and death in every bulb! The econuts always say that
humans are a cancer on their precious planet. Now they've engineered a way
to give us cancer so we'll die for Gaia. They even arranged it so
we pay extra for the privilege.
Not me though. I stocked up on real, honest-to-goodness, incandescent light bulbs. Boxes and boxes of 'em are stacked neatly in my basement. And no, I really don't care what Mother Gaia thinks about that.
UPDATE 26 Jul 2012 09:05:
Linked by Doug Ross. Thanks!
Posted at 11:45 by Chris Wysocki
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