Light Bulb Choice Library
Background information and research about incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs, migraines, and mercury poisioning.| Articles | |
| 2011 | |
| 01/31/2011 | Examiner.com Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) serious dangers and alternatives This article is a good overview of all the dangers inherit to using CFL. Includes facts not usually seen in other articles. By Tima Vlasto |
| 2010 | |
| 09/08/2010 | WashingtonPost.com GE_factory_closes.pdf Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas. The last major U.S. factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs will soon be closing. When it does, the remaining 200 workers at the Winchester, Va., plant, about 70 miles west of Washington, D.C., will lose their jobs... By Peter Whoriskey |
| 2009 | fluorescent_lighting_crisis.pdf "The Fluorescent Lighting Crisis: Part I: Background, Overview and Action Opinion by Joan Hudson-Miller, President, LRS Large Print and NAASLN Board Member" |
| 01/03/2008 | The Guardian "I may recycle yoghurt pots and travel by bike - but I refuse to give up my old-style light bulbs" |
| 01/02/2008 | CBC News Canada "Energy efficient bulbs may trigger migraines, U.K. group says" |
| 12/19/2007 | By Marianne Lavelle "Why We're Taking Your Light Bulbs Away" |
| 12/20/2007 | Steven Milloy "A Lightbulb Tea Party?" "No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session." That comment by New York State Surrogate Court Judge Gideon Tucker in 1866 aptly summarizes the so-called "Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007," signed into law this week by President Bush...." |
| 05/29/2007 | By Steven Milloy "Junk Science: Light Bulb Lunacy." The article documents the $2,000 fluorescent light bulb clean-Up bill for a homeowner in Maine. |
| 04/19/2007 | The Change to Energy Efficient Fluorescent Light Bulbs May Prove Disastrous "If Fluorescent Lights Gave You Headaches, Would You Care About Energy Efficiency?" |
| Blogs | |
| 12/27/2007 | Reasoned Response, "Shine The Light.." |
| 12/27/2007 | Vincent Gioia's Blog "When God said "Let there be light," he didn't mean Compact Fluorescent Lamps." "If government has the power to ban something incredibly benign and useful as the incandescent light bulb, what doesn't government have the power to do? |
| Health Issues | |
| 12/2005 | Report:World Health Organization "Electromagnetic fields and public health: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity" |
| Letters | |
| 01/18/2007 | Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, "Letter to House or Representatives" |
| HR 6 Specifics | |
| 12/20/2007 | Article:Alliance To Save Energy "HR 6 SUMMARY OF EFFICIENCY PROVISIONS, Light Bulb Standards" The biggest energy-saver among the standards in the bill are those for common light bulbs (or "lamps" as they are called in the lighting trade), requiring them to use about 25-30% less energy than today's most common incandescent bulbs by 2012-2014 (phasing in over several years) and at least 60% less energy by 2020. The initial targets can be met by advanced incandescent lamps which the major manufacturers are introducing to the market, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). CFLs and LEDs will also meet the longer-term targets and, based on industry statements, so will at least one incandescent technology. Savings from the lighting efficiency standards alone will exceed the combined energy and money savings of all 21 federal appliance standards adopted since the year 2000. By the year 2020, the lighting standards are expected to lower consumers annual electricity bills by more than $13 billion and save more than 140 billion kilowatt hours per year – an amount exceeding that used by all of the homes in Texas in 2006. |
| Miscellaneous Information | |
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Average Kitchen Appliance Usage Chart. |
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3 Page EPA Guidelines for the proper disposal of broken fluorescent bulbs.
