Pick Your Poison - Mercury In CFLs Or Lead In LEDs (or Just Go Back To Incandescent Bulbs)

Friday, February 11, 2011 - 02:10 in Physics & Chemistry

In the somewhat irrational war on incandescent light bulbs, one thing left out is that the current alternatives are not great yet either.   If you break a CFL bulb, you'd better call in a HazMat team (and who knows what the high frequency ballasts are doing to your pets?) but if you break an LED, the lead levels are far too high, according to a new study. read more

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