I am fully aware of a number of factors that influence our health: nutrition, lifestyle, fresh air, exercise, environmental polution, indoor and outdoor air quality, etc. And yes, EMF from electronics too. I stated that in my first post already. I admit I may be too much in front of the computer, well, many people are these days, often due to nature of jobs too..
My rheumatism has mostly improved, yes, nutrition and stress and ergonomics have been big factors there, I still try to minimize time spent with CFLs around. Am a bit concerned about some materials used in LED production too, and are there any big plans for recycling those?

I was allergic to food additives as a child and don’t eat any if I can help it. So that means no Coca Cola, no margarine, no pates or pre-prepared food… Later on I found out food additives can cause rheumatism or cancer or other diseases… and was HAPPY to be allergic!

Even ‘harmless’ things can be not-so-harmless, so why oppose critical thinking and questioning of products they are trying to ’sell’ to us? (Or do you work for a factory making them?)
Energy saving is a great thing, still, why believe everything others say on non-blogs?? Using critical thinking and common sense is a good thing, no?

Just because there are umpteen places to dispose of the CFLs properly where you live doesn’t mean it is so worldwide. Or that people actually dispose of them responsibly. (My Grandma used to throw thermometers with mercury into ordinary garbage when they broke, she had no idea you’re not supposed to. Even after we’ve told her, repeatedly.) Are there plans for eg older people where you live to help them with these things?

And I am yet to come across good and reliable info on what to do with broken CFLs and how they get disposed of by professionals - do they get recycled too? Can you point to good and reliable links? (Even the agency that officially collects them where I live doesn’t have unambiguous info on their website, info scattered online differs quite a bit.)

Lee Fry, it is better to not have a garden in your bedroom anyway (the plants can ‘eat up’ too much oxygen) maybe just a plant or two… Also the plants could give off any smells or such, depending on the sorts.. Headache can be from a lack of magnesium or from stress too.. Hope things went better, do tell how you went about it?

Paul Constantineau, I would love to hear more about what you have to tell!

Sam, I think if you broke just one bulb you’ll probably survive There are tips online on how to handle it, try to minimize contact with materials if you can.. There’s some mercury in most of us already, due to amalgams or tuna or whatever.. So the question is how much there is - just stay away from other new sources, take precautions where you can… There is info about mercury online, maybe just observe yourself a bit.. Live healthy in other ways…

I have always been perplexed at the value energy-saving lights offer. Is this value offering for the benefit of the environment or not? If not, then what is the real reason behind the advocacy of energy-saving lights?

Let’s analyse the energy-saving value. The average person gets bombarded by the media with information on reducing carbon emissions. So, like a good citizen, I go and replace all my incandescent or filament light bulbs with energy-saving lights. But hey, these energy-saving lights only last around a year on average, despite purchasing reputable brands. Now if you factor in the effort to manufacture these light sources, don’t they contribute to our carbon footprint? If I keep on replacing these items at short intervals, where is the carbon inhibiting saving we are all striving for? Incorrect disposal of the old ones produces mercury contamination. Using my car to purchase new ones at three times the cost of incandescent light bulbs also contributes to carbon generation. Not to mention earning that income, which also indirectly generates carbon emissions. It just doesn’t make sense and I am sure that the powers to be are aware of this. Why isn’t anything being said or done?

Now consider the physical construction and operation of the energy-saver light. The curled white tube is filled with mercury and the inner walls of the glass tube are coated with lumena-fluorescence white powder. On the electrical input a bridge rectifier converts AC into DC and a switching circuit pulses this energy with a square wave of a couple of kilohertz into a high-frequency transformer. The high-voltage energy is fed to the electrodes of the curled glass tube that ionises the mercury gas. The mercury gas radiates ultraviolet and the ultraviolet light frequency gets mostly converted into visible white light by the lumena-fluorescence powder. A square wave according to Fourier analysis is a composition of many ordinary sine waves of different amplitudes and frequency. After dismantling an energy-saving light I found no evidence of EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference) shielding in the form of metal enclosures.

Now what I have discovered is that all of these so-called energy-saving lights radiate a whole mixture of energy types - pretty normal white light (the stuff we want), some ultraviolet waves (not so good) and some x-rays due to the inert gas’s plasma (not good at all, this induces ionisation that causes ’spelling mistakes’ or alterations in DNA replication sequencing during cell divisions). What concerns me more is magnetic, electrical field radiation and not to mention ‘other’ radiation that will become clearer later on. Devices such as unshielded switch mode power supplies for cellphones, laptops and TVs are no exception.

What triggered my thought process was the fact that my friend’s remote control for his satellite TV decoder did not function when his bed light was switched on. As humans, we also use other means of communication besides the spoken word. An invention in one part of the world all of a sudden gets replicated in another part of the world without any traditional communication mechanisms. Take for example the following: The Khoisan, Europeans, Chinese and Native Americans used bow and arrows for hunting and warfare. The nuclear bomb was independently developed in a couple of different locations simultaneously. I sometimes invent something just to discover that at more or less the same time the same thing was invented elsewhere. We call it the collective unconscious. In quantum physics, if you measure the spin of one proton, the other proton instantly ‘knows’ and adopts the opposite spin, at a speed that is faster than the speed of light. This has been proven over a distance of 10 kilometres and has been confirmed as correct. What is this unseen relation? If such unknown channels exist, an invention or unique idea could be seen as a collective effort of the unconscious channelled world and cannot be attributed to a single person alone.

The open holistic thought process of an individual is merely an aggregate of the channelled unconscious universe.

My concern is with the close proximity radiation of the wide spectrum of wave lengths and energy types associated with switch mode power sources. Are we not creating noise? Noise is seen as a combination of different wavelengths. Noise blocks communication. Can we not say then that the introduction of noise is detrimental to the universal unconscious channelling of thoughts? Adverse unexplained physiological conditions may arise.

Is it on purpose or not? Why would anyone want to block the progression and evolution of the human species? Who is scared of what?

Think about it!

Greetings

Open Mind