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Sammi79 · 09-21-10, 04:28 PM

Hmmmm. No, sorry really sounds like absolute *expletive* I'm afraid. 'Dirty electricity' indeed - a smooth sine wave at 50Hz - Well all mains power in the UK is exactly that : a 50Hz sine wave pushing and pulling 240v so practically every electrical cable that runs from the mains socket creates that field to a greater or lesser extent depending on the dampening effect from the cable sheath. I believe in most of Europe it is 60Hz but at 110v or thereabouts? I don't know what the specs are in the US, but I assume after that video that it runs at 50Hz. Ever since the invention of radio, signals of varying frequencies have been passing through living things.

People live under/near power lines carrying 45,000+v at this same frequency which create huge EMF fields (like you know if you listen to the radio in your car and you drive under one), try taking that little 'magic box' under a pylon and see what it says.

Yes mercury is dangerous, so is flouride in your toothpaste, care should be taken when disposing of these bulbs as with batteries, microchips, microwave ovens, refridgerators and many, many other readily available consumer products. In reality unless you regularly eat lightbulbs or whole tubes of toothpaste you are not going to come to any harm!

Ultra Violet radiation is possibly the only real concern you have here, and that's only because people demand specific 'colours' of light - "I want my light to replicate daylight"... well daylight contains UV radiation. The colours achieved by CFLs are a product of phosphor compounds on the inside of the tube, they can be modified to produce any wavelengths we desire, and can be designed to nearly completely eradicate the emission of UV frequencies (only it won't be a nice blue-white daylight shade)

Don't let reports like that fool you, It seems to me sincerely to be some kind of media scare tactic for which the reason escapes me - possibly the makers of incandescant bulbs are running at a loss? or possibly because the people who control the people who produce these broadcasts want you to be scared, add it to all the terror etc.

09-21-10, 04:28 PM	#6
Sammi79 XO Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Penzance Posts: 428 Downloads: 272 Uploads: 0	Hmmmm. No, sorry really sounds like absolute expletive I'm afraid. 'Dirty electricity' indeed - a smooth sine wave at 50Hz - Well all mains power in the UK is exactly that : a 50Hz sine wave pushing and pulling 240v so practically every electrical cable that runs from the mains socket creates that field to a greater or lesser extent depending on the dampening effect from the cable sheath. I believe in most of Europe it is 60Hz but at 110v or thereabouts? I don't know what the specs are in the US, but I assume after that video that it runs at 50Hz. Ever since the invention of radio, signals of varying frequencies have been passing through living things. People live under/near power lines carrying 45,000+v at this same frequency which create huge EMF fields (like you know if you listen to the radio in your car and you drive under one), try taking that little 'magic box' under a pylon and see what it says. Yes mercury is dangerous, so is flouride in your toothpaste, care should be taken when disposing of these bulbs as with batteries, microchips, microwave ovens, refridgerators and many, many other readily available consumer products. In reality unless you regularly eat lightbulbs or whole tubes of toothpaste you are not going to come to any harm! Ultra Violet radiation is possibly the only real concern you have here, and that's only because people demand specific 'colours' of light - "I want my light to replicate daylight"... well daylight contains UV radiation. The colours achieved by CFLs are a product of phosphor compounds on the inside of the tube, they can be modified to produce any wavelengths we desire, and can be designed to nearly completely eradicate the emission of UV frequencies (only it won't be a nice blue-white daylight shade) Don't let reports like that fool you, It seems to me sincerely to be some kind of media scare tactic for which the reason escapes me - possibly the makers of incandescant bulbs are running at a loss? or possibly because the people who control the people who produce these broadcasts want you to be scared, add it to all the terror etc. Last edited by Sammi79; 09-21-10 at 05:11 PM.