How are your Mercury filled green light bulbs doing today?

Question

How are your Mercury filled green light bulbs doing today?

Answer 1

Doing fine. I told my nepher to be a trial lawyer. That way in about 10 years when the mercury starts leaking into landfills he can start suing everyone. At 2000 dollars a pop (thats what it cost to clean one bulb a few months ago) hes going to be rich. Not that it makes it right but I also know a lot of other skunk lawyers are just drooling over the lawsuits. But at least they may leave someone else alone.

Answer 2

Well they are saving me lots of energy. I just can't wait for LED based ones to get cheaper

Answer 3

One lamp only contains a very small amount of mercury.

Now combine the little amount of mercury by the millions sold and we have a potential environmental problem on our hands.

How soon will it be when this mercury starts finding its way into the ground water?

The question isn't if this will happen, but when!

Answer 4

Burning fossil fuels to produce electricity is one of the largest sources of mercury to the environment.  The amount of mercury released to the atmosphere from the electricity needed for an incandescent bulb is about 13.6 milligrams.  If you compare that to the 3.3 milligrams of mercury from the power plant plus the 5 milligrams of mercury in the CFL, the CFL still results in less mercury to the environment.  Proper disposal of CFLs helps to further reduce their impact.