I was just saying a few weeks ago that I had every light in the house turned on to try to help out my furnace that could not keep up. Won't be doing that much longer, as the "green" bulbs don't throw heat.
Not to mention all the energy they use because I'll have to leave them on all the time, rather than flipping a switch on and turning it back off thirty seconds later when I'm done seeing what I needed to see.
I was just thinking today what the workers who need trouble lights are going to do. Slide under the car, press the switch, then fall asleep waiting for the bulb to come up to speed?
And someone told me a couple days ago they contain mercury
The ones I have, in the closet, have dire warnings about what to do if you break one and how to dispose of them. Better pickup a hazmat suit next time you go shopping! Maybe the bulbs have improved, but the ones a friend gave me a few years back were noisy, dim and did not work well in my existing lamps.
I'm not sure why I'm saving them, in the closet next to my ball of string and cardboard box collection!
You know it only takes one gram of Hg to kill you. And it never leaves your system as you take it in.
I figure for as much Lake Erie fish that I've eaten, which is with mercury warnings... and as many broken thermometers I played with as a kid... I'm about three broken bulbs short of a full gram
Are you sure it doesn't feel like 29.5?
How cold does it have to be for you to dress like that? How long are you planning on staying outside? Are you wearing your long John's?I'm an unhappy boy right now.
