Comment Re:RockMelt only works if you have a Facebook acco (Score 1) 185
I refuse to have my browser access my private info like that! Andreesen's company doesn't need to know my fb profile name or anything.
The article is false and misleading. If I clean up a leaking 55gallon drum of mercury wearing a proper hazmat suit I can be exposed to less mercury then a can of tuna, but does that make it safe to dispose of in a landfill? Just because personal exposure to a spill is low doesn't mean they are landfill safe!
I don't quite follow the argument here. How did you go from a CFL light bulb to a drum of mercury? Unless, of course, you're comparing quantities. a few glasses of water per day would be good. One glass a day would be far too little. But if you drank, say, 10 gallons in a sitting, that is obviously going to be toxic. As is drinking a few glasses of DDH2O ("pure" water).
I want to know what I can look for on the packaging, to tell me that the lightbulb I'm buying has an acceptable warm-up time (5 seconds would be OK, I suppose)
Of course, this is opposed to the brightness of incandescent bulbs, right? Those old bulbs actually get dimmer with time. Obviously, you can't trust what you read on the box then, either.
don't have a source here, but i thought i read somewhere that the average can of tuna has more mercury than what's in a modern CFL.
So that makes it ok to use products which we KNOW will be disposed of improperly and thus will go into the food chain and eventually tuna 10 years from now will have even more mercury in it.
So 10 years from now, you will be able to say the same thing: a can of tuna has more mercury than a CFL. So use more CFLs.
It doesn't mean that CFLs are safe, it just means that there is a lot of mercury in tuna!
I think it means that you have better things to worry about. Like tailpipe emmissions.
Oops... I worked out the price in pence, then wrote that it was pounds. I thought it seemed a bit expensive. But you've worked out the cost for seven years.
24h*365 = 8760h 8760h*0.0005kW = 4.38kWh. £0.14/kWh * 4.38kWh = £0.61.
(The 9W CFL would be £11, the 40W incandescent £50.)
Seven years? Crap. ok. no more math for me! Back to writing design specs....
it's still a lot of mercury in the landfills.
I don't have a source here, but i thought i read somewhere that the average can of tuna has more mercury than what's in a modern CFL. Hmm. or was it here: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_conscious_consumer/70/three-cfl-myths-busted.html
Age brings experience, but there's plenty of energetic younger folks out there who are great at PRETENDING to have experience. Sure, they have no clue what they're talking about half the time, but they always impress the management.
*sigh*
Haha. yep. I completely agree. There's a big difference between knowing the semantics of a language/paradigm/system and being able to know/understand the nuances of it. It's the nuances that will get you every time...
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
