Incandescent light bulbs in the UK

For folks in the UK, even though incandescent light bulbs have been banned
for home use, you can still purchase the equivalent "industrial" incandescent
bulbs.  Just do a search on "rough service" bulbs:

  http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/search/?s=rough%20serv

And here is a relevant article on the subject:

  http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/info/in-the-news/

Marc

While on the subject of Light Bulbs, I will mention the controversy that the CFL Light Bulbs can interfere with radio and TV.

Quote: "It seems a shame that lamps intended to reduce environmental pollution should pollute the radio spectrum."

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2007/low_energy_light_bulbs.htm

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"In addition to their often murky powers of illumination, low-energy light bulbs have been shown to disrupt television remote controls.

Scientists have found that the infrared waves given out by some models of the bulbs are almost exactly the same frequency as those from the hand-sets.

Sometimes this means the controls fail altogether. On other occasions the channels may be spontaneously switched by the “impostor” rays of the bulbs.

For the same reason, says the Sunday Times, they can even stop a radio from receiving shortwave programmes."

Dr. Magda Havas says these light bulbs emit Electromagnetic Dirty Radiation:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Shedding+light+miracle+bulbs/3571340/story.html#ixzz10RyIx8sY

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Trent University's Magda Havas, an associate professor of environmental and resource studies, is sitting on a potential powder keg. Her research focuses on "dirty energy," and she claims these light bulbs are fonts of it. She claims that the new "green" bulbs emit ultraviolet light and intense fields of constantly changing electromagnetic "dirty" radiation. The basic research is not that complicated. You can measure the radiation easily with an oscilloscope, and it's clear the new bulbs put out lots of electromagnetic noise compared to the old ones. The question is, is that bad for you? And according to Havas, that's a solid yes.

The current confusion around the issue may be explained by the fact that some people are extremely sensitive and some are not. There are reports of people who get rashes, headaches and in rare cases are "knocked down" by light from these bulbs, while for many others there's no issue at all. The question is: Are the "sensitive" the canaries in a coal mine? And will all of us get sick in time? While there is some debate about the cause, in the years since the bulbs proliferated people have been showing up at doctors' offices with migraines, dizziness, rashes and something called brain fog.

"Remember we are electrical beings," Havas says.

The anecdotal evidence is compelling, she says, because when people remove the bulbs, the symptoms often disappear. There was already a fuss about how these bulbs contain enough mercury to make authorities suggest you should never dispose of them yourself. But the intensity of the radiation is surprising.

"The waveforms are horrendous," Havas said in an interview. "What is totally novel, we had no idea it affected human health. No one checked."

China has already banned regular light bulbs.
http://en.ce.cn/Insight/201112/05/t20111205_22891111.shtml

New Zealand Scraps Ban on Traditional Light Bulbs
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2008/nz_scraps_lightbulb_ban.htm

Here is a good website to keep up to date on Light Bulb news:


http://www.edisonreport.net/


C. Johnson
Wireless Refugee
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      For folks in the UK, even though incandescent light bulbs have been banned

for home use, you can still purchase the equivalent "industrial" incandescent

bulbs.  Just do a search on "rough service" bulbs:



http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/search/?s=rough%20serv



And here is a relevant article on the subject:



http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/info/in-the-news/



Marc



   
     

   
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