Light Bulb Ban
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Cellular Phone Task Force To info@cellphonetaskforce.org Dec 23, 2013 This is your last chance to stock up on ordinary light bulbs, because it will be illegal to manufacture or import them into the United States as of January 1, 2014. Please remind everyone. In case you think it will be easy to travel to another country and bring some back with you, most countries in the world either have already banned incandescent bulbs or are in process of doing so. The U.S., Canada, Malaysia and South Korea are banning them as of next week. Cuba banned them in 2007, Australia in 2010, the UK in 2011. The entire European Union banned them as of September 1, 2012, and Israel banned bulbs over 60 watts in January 2012. Tajikistan prohibited them as of 2009, and Russia plans to complete its phase-out next year. China, where most incandescents are now manufactured, is scheduled to ban 60 watt bulbs as of October 1, 2014, and 15 watt bulbs two years later. Mexico and all other Central American countries have agreed to end sales of incandescents by the end of 2016, and the Economic Community of West African States plans a complete phase-out before 2020. The only country I have discovered where a ban is not underway is New Zealand, which returned to sanity in 2008 and scrapped plans to prohibit the bulbs. I hope that is still true. Perhaps my New Zealand contacts can update me. Also, although India's official policy is to eventually get rid of ordinary, cheap, safe bulbs that emit warm and friendly light, it is finding it difficult to enforce a ban on a billion less-than-wealthy people. Although halogen replacements are being touted by some as a safe (though more expensive) variation on the incandescent bulb that is still legal in the United States (the European Union has plans to ban them too by September 1, 2016), they produce a hotter, bluer light, emit more ultraviolet, and contain iodine or bromine. The war on traditional light bulbs is being driven by profit. There is no valid environmental reason to ban them. All the alternatives are much more energy-intensive (and therefore costly and polluting) to manufacture, and even the waste heat given off by incandescents (at least in middle and high latitudes) contributes to the heating of our homes during large parts of the year and must be replaced by gas or oil. I need not mention the violation of human rights that is occurring. Large numbers of people with disabilities are unable to use any of the alternatives. If anyone has information or discussion to contribute on this subject, please email or call me. Arthur Firstenberg phone: 1-505-471-0129 -- Cellular Phone Task Force info@cellphonetaskforce.org |
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On January 5, "superdrove [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I am passinig this information on: > > > Cellular Phone Task Force > To [hidden email] > Dec 23, 2013 > > This is your last chance to stock up on ordinary light bulbs, because it > will be illegal to manufacture or import them into the United States as > of January 1, 2014. Please remind everyone. This information is misleading, as incandescent lights are and will still be available in the USA. You can purchase "rough service" lights, which are usually for commercial/industrial purposes, as these are exempt from the ban and are still the same old incandescent lights that everyone should be able to tolerate (assuming you tolerated incandescents in the first place) You can also buy the new halogen incandescent bulbs, which are replacing the old bulbs. Again, there are no transformers, so to someone with ES, these should be just as tolerable as the old bulbs. You can also buy line-level halogens, which do not emit any dirty electricity, but have special fixtures. Just avoid the compact flourescents, and some people react to some types of LED bulbs as well (due to transformers) Marc |
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Another attack on the population. this has nothing to do with money. it goes deeper than that.
I bought refrigerator bulb and made my own installation. they are the old type. smaller socket though E17. I find flourescent light disturbing. They are not full spectrum light which i think is one of the reason they are stressing my system. and contains mercury. they also must contain some sort of electronics. when i scan them with my radio i hear loud emf emitting from them. I'm talking about this one http://papundits.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/cfl_all2.jpg i prefer to scan with radio so i can listen to the frequency. number does not tell me much. just a confirmation that here is lots of emf. something i already can feel. |
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Here are some other good articles about those CFL bulbs. My face begins to burn if I sit too close to one. I cannot eat in a restaurant that is full of them.
Some of them put out a huge magnetic field-measuring with a Trifield- and most cause massive dirty electricity on your home wiring. I've measured this with a Stetzer meter and have seen a normal 25 go to to 815 and sometimes higher. http://www.naturalhealth365.com/stop_cancer/cfl_light_bulbs.html http://www.prevention.com/health/health-concerns/office-lightbulbs-may-increase-skin-cancer-risk#ixzz2HZBlBKzP Sent from my hard wired computer. Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 05:31:56 -0800 From: [hidden email] Another attack on the population. this has nothing to do with money. it goes deeper than that. I bought refrigerator bulb and made my own installation. they are the old type. smaller socket though E17. I find flourescent light disturbing. They are not full spectrum light which i think is one of the reason they are stressing my system. and contains mercury. they also must contain some sort of electronics. when i scan them with my radio i hear loud emf emitting from them. I'm talking about this one http://papundits.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/cfl_all2.jpg i prefer to scan with radio so i can listen to the frequency. number does not tell me much. just a confirmation that here is lots of emf. something i already can feel. If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://es-forum.com/Light-Bulb-Ban-tp4027006p4027008.html |
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Well, like I said, if you have control over the light bulbs in your house, there is no need to be using florescent bulbs, when there are still rough service incandescents, halogen incandescents, and maybe LED if you can stand them.
Marc On January 6, "Fog Top [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote: > Here are some other good articles about those CFL bulbs. My face begins to burn if I sit too close to one. |
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Could you expand a little about the meter you have? I think someone else has the filters as well... I would like to hear if they are worth it or not. thanks Aimee
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I'm looking at buying the Stetzer meter and filters. Does anyone have any experience with them? very expensive so I am doing my research :)
thanks and if I replied to the group before and it was a mess, I apologize. Aimee |
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On January 6, "Aimee [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I'm looking at buying the Stetzer meter and filters. Does anyone have any > experience with them? very expensive so I am doing my research :) > thanks and if I replied to the group before and it was a mess, I apologize. Seems like the response to these have been mixed. Some people said they reduced symptoms, some say they didn't. Some said they made things worse. Apparently these should not be used if your outlets are wired incorrectly, which you can test with an outlet tester. The meter measures noise on the power lines, and you can reduce that reading with other filters besides the Stetzer filters. Marc |
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WoW and disappointing . I was hoping to hear better then that lol. Thank you Marc for your prompt reply.
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i have a meter/filter - an emf powerpro.
It only costs $150 and one or two will take care of the whole house, usually
it does a good job in normal spaces. you have to hunt and peck around for THE outlet that makes the difference to the whole line, but it does help with the excess output at the wall. HOWEVER, what i found is that the filter - since it collects 'dirty electricity' - has a high EMF reading itself. so??? if you can find THE outlet(s) that reduces the dirty electricity, that's good... and then avoid the filters... work/play/sleep on the opposite side of the room - then you've got it made. but you don't really get rid of the offending invisible non-substance - you just collect it in the filter. the outlets here measure off the scale, so i just turn off the breakers where i can. at night, i pull the plugs out at the wall. my computer, fortunately, allows me to put it to 'sleep', unplug it, and when i get up in the morning, and plug it back in, it 'remembers' where i was the night before. still, the other lines that have not been turned off at the breakers are so high that the room still is full of 'dirty electricity'... but at least it is lower. and i place my surge protectors with all their transformers as far from my body as possible, for they measure in each little plug-in spot, again, off the scale. i think that might have to do with out-of-control solar panels up there, somewhere on the other side of the ceiling, on the roof. eek. we live in an out-of-control energy soup. love, patricia On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Marc Martin [via ES] wrote: On January 6, "Aimee [via ES]" <<a href="x-msg://589/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4027013&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">[hidden email]> wrote: |
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You said there are other ways to filter out the dirty electricity besides Stetzer filters. Would you please let us know some of those other ways (and if they are more problem-free and cheaper then the Stetzers?) Many thanks, Ellen |
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On January 7, "Ellen [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> You said there are other ways to filter out the dirty electricity besides > Stetzer filters. Would you please let us know some of those other ways (and > if they are more problem-free and cheaper then the Stetzers?) I use Furman linear filtering power strips, which reduce the readings on the Stetzer meters, but do not give me a sharp pain in my head that the Stetzer filters do. But there are a variety of power filters on the market -- I recall one brand being mentioned here that sounded like a direct competitor, but these are also popular in the audio/video world, as clean power can mean better quality audio and video. But the Furman power strips are not cheaper then the Stetzers -- just more problem-free. I also use Quantum power conditioners, but these do NOT reduce the readings on the Stetzer meters, but rather reduce my symptoms, which I consider to more important than the meter readings. :-) Marc |
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On January 7, "Marc Martin [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On January 7, "Ellen [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote: > > You said there are other ways to filter out the dirty electricity besides > > Stetzer filters. Would you please let us know some of those other ways (and > > if they are more problem-free and cheaper then the Stetzers?) Here is a competitor to the Stetzerizer filters, Greenwave: http://www.greenwavefilters.com/stetzerizer-gs-filters/ I have not personally tried these. Marc |
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I called emf.ca today and the call didn't sit that well with me. I asked her approx. how many filters would an average 1100 sq ft home need and she said 40!! I said I didn't think we had 40 outlets in the whole house! I then asked about returns and she said no one ever returned. On the site it states they will accept Unopened returns.
Then she told me that 2 autistic children were talking now after their mom used the filters , in my area no less! about a minute later I asked if the inspector would come to my province or did he work only in Ontario and she asked where I was. Oh my. Then she said if I get a boat load of people in my town that want him to inspect homes, pay the flight / hotel.... he would come here. So I checked out the site Marc posted, thank you , and I decided to get the meter and sample starter filters..... 30 day money back guarantee. $300 as compared to $700 or $800 from emf. Will keep you all posted. Aimee |
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At http://www.milieuziektes.nl/Pagina12c.html there is a chapter *Dirty Power*.
It is in German, and explains what to do. It is no good in placing so many filters in the house, because so unwanted resonances may occur, which may disrupt electrican appliances. First, one has to locate the sources of the dirty power, and resolve them. For the rest, one can use filters, and normally 5 (=five) will do. Be also aware, that the Stetzer stuff only works from 5kHz up to 150-200kHz. On http://www.minderstraling.nl/Pagina050.html I have placed spectrumanalyses of the influence of Powerplugs. See figures 3 and 4. The dirty frequencies (green peaks) range from 5 kHz up to 20.000kHz or 20MHz. |
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