I can only buy these from Home Depot in America?
The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb
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Re: The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb
#62A light bulb is the biggest thing since the light bulb? The light bulb was the greatest invention of the 20th century, but the story is about to an energy saving light bulb sold at Home Depot?
The light bulb was invented in the 19th century. A patent was granted for an incandescent lamp in England in 1841 but the first commercially viable design was by Edison in 1879.
I think the story itself, however, is a demonstration of an extremely annoying web site design.
Re: The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb
#63Whoever made this site is an idiot.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
no mercury hazard - you don't have to vent your house and worry about mercury exposure if a bulb breaks.
In my entire life I've broken exactly 1 CFL - and I was a kid at the time. And you don't have to vent your house, that's an urban legend. The mercury is elemental mercury which isn't very toxic, and extremely poorly absorbed on top of that. (The toxic mercury is organic mercury. Some elemental mercury will be converted, which is why people worry about it - but it won't be converted in your house.)
MERCURY IS TOXIC. DO NOT TELL PEOPLE THAT IT IS NOT TOXIC.
Both elemental mercury and "organic" mercury are toxic (I assume you mean "organic mercury compounds", since mercury is never "organic"). The relative toxicity of mercury does depend on the compound. Dimethylmercury is exceptionally poisonous: it will go right through latex gloves, skin, and the blood-brain barrier; minute concentrations will kill you. Metallic mercury is much less toxic, but when you inhale mercury vapors it gets absorbed rather well into your circulatory system.
The amount of mercury in a CFL is very low. If I broke a CFL, I would make sure to ventilate the room for a few hours, but I would not be worried. However, it is downright irresponsible to tell people that elemental mercury is not toxic.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning#Elemental_mer...
Re: The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
personally i think you are being an asshole... he just forgot to mention he was talking about something else in their product range. It is in that context, still on topic.
How nice. Note that I did not downmod him, but at least 3 other people did. I was warning him before his account got hellbanned. But I guess you see prefer to see bad intent.
the article is about cree LEDs
i use a cree LED in a flashlight to walk my dog
if i get 'hellbanned' for this comment, i'm not really sure what to say. i probably won't try registering again because that's just really mean.
Re: The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb
#66how about the standard spotlight sized ones?
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#67This page has GOT to stop moving!! GRRRR. Who decided this was a good idea?
I wonder what you are talking about because ... A ye, must be something that Ghostery or No script (js enabled) is preventing. Or ad block. I guess I don't know what is preventing me for having a bad experience, but I guess one of those 3. update Found the issue. JavaScript was disabled on the page. Sorry if my post mislead.
It's not adblock. I have in on and it jumps around.
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#68This page has GOT to stop moving!! GRRRR. Who decided this was a good idea?
I wonder what you are talking about because ... A ye, must be something that Ghostery or No script (js enabled) is preventing. Or ad block. I guess I don't know what is preventing me for having a bad experience, but I guess one of those 3. update Found the issue. JavaScript was disabled on the page. Sorry if my post mislead.
It just fits the current section of the page to the screen
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#69These are probably available everywhere, but since moving to Japan I found some motion-detecting LED light bulbs. Now when coming home or walking down the hall at night the light turns on automagically. Saves both time and energy.
You said "at night", so it's not only motion-detecting but also comes with a light sensor to avoid to turn on in bright day light, isn't it ? Do you have an URL or a name to provide ?
Re: The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb
#70This page has GOT to stop moving!! GRRRR. Who decided this was a good idea?
I wonder what you are talking about because ... A ye, must be something that Ghostery or No script (js enabled) is preventing. Or ad block. I guess I don't know what is preventing me for having a bad experience, but I guess one of those 3. update Found the issue. JavaScript was disabled on the page. Sorry if my post mislead.
Not AdBlock nor Ghostery. Have both and page is moving alone.