From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 07/15/02-11:39:49 AM Z
Ed Stander wrote:
>Sandy:
> You missed one very important point. BL (and all fluorescent) bulbs are
>really low temperature mercury containment systems. One 5000 watt metal
>halide bulb contains an equivalent amount of mercury as a single
>fluorescent tube (accd. to the olec people). SInce 5000 watts of BL tubes
>would require a bank of at least 50 tubes, the environmental consequences
>of using BL bulbs is at least 50 times as great. Tsk, Tsk on all you BL
>people. Ed.
My word. This news juste makes me want to take a stick to all those
nasty BL units.
Sandy K.
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