Monday, April 30, 2007

How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$2004.28
And that's not counting any doctor bills you may encounter for the effects of mercury poisoning.

"As each CFL contains five milligrams of mercury, at the Maine "safety" standard of 300 nanograms per cubic meter, it would take 16,667 cubic meters of soil to "safely" contain all the mercury in a single CFL."

Here is the original story from the local paper.

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