that is good to know. you are a wealth of information deri. i will not worry about them now if i can actually find some with the really small base for my bed room. 
i'd told judy i did not want any of those none standard light fixtures and she still picks one for the bedroom that is really tiny and the lights are costly. i'd like to get the longer lasting floresants, but i found none at the home depot. and of course wal mart does not have them. 


--- On Sat, 5/10/08, Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Antarctica did not cool nearly as much as models predicted
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008, 3:58 PM
> On Saturday 10 May 2008 18:47:22 ken barber wrote:
> > i have a ceiling fan that i was going to buy these
> bulbs for and can't find
> > a store that carries them for this size bulb. i was
> supprised.
> >
> > might i ask what you are going to do if you
> accidentally break one of these
> > and let the mercury in them out on your floor?
> 
> How much mercury do you think is in these bulbs?!! I'll
> give you a clue - the 
> EU will not allow more than 17/100,000th of an ounce!
> I'm sure you probably 
> know that burning fossil fuel releases minute amounts of
> mercury as well 
> (about twice as much for an incandescent bulb).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Deri
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