26 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Twisty Bulbs”

  1. We had a CF bulb (don’t recall the brand) melt and start to burn a couple of years ago. Took days to get rid of the stench. They’re banned from this house and I continue to stockpile incandescents.
    Horrible, horrible things…

  2. Where I live it gets to 20, 30, 40 below. Those damn things barely work outside or in unheated buildings.

  4. There was a burning electical smell in basement last year and it was a CF overheating…base turned a chocolate brown from white. Tossed everyone of them into the trash and am now stockpiling incandescent bulbs. Somebody’s going to get killed from this “green” nonsense.

  6. Whatever happened to that guy who was going to continue producing incandescent light bulbs but repackage them as “heat globes”?

  7. Joey: That was in Germany, 2010. A loophole in the Eurofascist trade laws. Haven’t heard anything since October 2010

  8. I was waiting for this …i recently went down to the u.s. wherei toured a cabin facility that makes cabins or loge homes on site then ships them in moduels to the build site hwere they are assembled in a few days (superbe quality) anyway on there saftey wall they had an update i guess on one of there employees who tried to change a twisty bulb and dropped it onto the floor lost there balance stepped /or fell off the chair and stepped right on the twisty buld splinters …besides being severly cut , he got mercury poisoning and has some sort of suckition machine to remove the flesh as it dies as far as i understood and by the pictures this person will be in hospital for a veryl ong time .
    i could see where the flesh was literally eaten or rotted away to the bone and the bone is exposed you could see all of the tendons on the top of the foot and the cut origionated on the bottom of the foot …this is what mercury poisoning does or mercury burns i am not sure what iti s actually called but ..makes a great case for banning twisty bulbs all together we don’t have them in our hoe and we never will even if i have to burn frick candles !!!

  9. pwc said “Somebody’s going to get killed from this “green” nonsense.”
    Well considering the green ban on DDT has led to the death of over 50,000,000 Africans due to Malaria (1 million a year still perish) I think you can call your statement confirmed.
    The green cull is on.

  12. Did Health Canada remember to mention the hazard and cleanup costs for the mercury?
    Posted by: DrD
    **********************************************
    I understand they are full of Mercury?
    Can’t remember where I read that..
    If one of the g-kids break a bulb do we call 911 or hazard control?

  13. At the bottom of the warning:
    Corrective Action:
    Consumers should immediately stop using these specific compact fluorescent lamps and contact Conglom Inc. to get instruction on how to receive a replacement item.
    Replacement. Yah, right. Betya there’s a helluva line up waiting for that replacement item.

  14. I never understood why these things were pushed in the first place.
    The generating capacity ‘freed up’ by offices etc closing for the day, I suspect way more than covers the additional lighting needs when it gets dark.
    It aint like we can ‘save up’ electric power as its generated.

  15. Let me see;
    1) They were working on energy efficient incandescent bulbs, but gave up on them, as we tried to ban the bulb.The Factory’s in China came on-line with Cfls so we lost good jobs.
    2)The area in China where they are made, is so polluted the workers have a life expectancy of a couple years. The effected area includes millions of people and a huge region. Just wait till it gets banned and see how more polluted it gets.
    3)They have to be shipped here wasting fuel, then there is no effective way to recycle them, or what to do if they break.
    unlike the old bulb
    4)Known heath effects from using them including cancer as the light is not natural, migraines and others.
    Now we are told, no this is not really the answer its going to be the LED light. These lights are even more cancer causing as they emit light in very narrow wavelength. That makes them more efficient, but also makes them the most cancer causing bulb of all.
    Answer me that Health Canada

  16. These lights are even more cancer causing as they emit light in very narrow wavelength. That makes them more efficient, but also makes them the most cancer causing bulb of all. Answer me that Health Canada.
    Posted by: Peter at December 7, 2011 5:42 PM
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    Could you link to a relevant study, or report on this claim?

  17. I see the area affected by the recall does not include the islands in Hudson and James Bay that are considered part of Nunavut.

  18. I must admit I’m hoarding incandescent bulbs too.
    I want nothing whatsoever to do with CFLs – or “turd bulbs” as I call them.
    I think the LED bulbs do show some promise. But right now they are just so absurdly priced (from $40 to $50 a bulb!).
    I plan to rely on my hoard until the price on LEDs starts to fall. Then I’ll try a couple of them.

  19. I have one of those melted in a fixture. Can’t get it out with pliers. Fixture is scrap. Another just blew up about a year ago inside the back heated mud room. I had no idea about the evacuation policy if one breaks. God help us on the mercury from the disposal of these. I had no idea! I have a good stock plie now of incandesent. China makes them with no enviro standards. We don’t really have a policy on disposing them but everybody thinks they are great.
    Frustrating.

  20. histrybuff, actually that’s a very interesting point you raise. Most very large office towers leave lights on through most or all of the night. The principal reason for this is because cleaning crews are working through the night.
    However, installing high efficiency lighting can have an adverse effect on the building’s energy use. In a very high building, you have to lift all that hot air from the heating system 30 or more floors at a huge energy cost. To the extent that incandescent provides local heat as well as light, it relieves the load on the HVAC.
    The summer demand on air conditioning is not nearly as severe, because in Canada, buildings are using considerably more energy for heating than air conditioning. Also, air conditioning is cut back considerably at night, but you can’t do that with heating during the winter, or pipes will freeze.

  21. So, if Pres. Obama were to accidentally break a cfl bulb in the White House, would by EPA rules, he then be required to vacate the White House? Just asking 🙂

  22. If you’re going to buy cheap disposable Chinese crap products to fill up your garbage dumps, why are you surprised if the CFLs are the same as all the other Chinese crap.
    The CFLs I bought 30 years ago are still working fine. One replaceable tube burned out over that time. Of coursed they’re all made by Phillips or Bosch in Europe.
    You get what you pay for, and stupid people get hosed by advertisers who are way smarter than them.

  23. “Could you link to a relevant study, or report on this claim?”
    Well for one “ANSES, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, has published a report entitled (in English): ” Lighting systems using light-emitting diodes: health issues to be considered”
    There are many more out there if you are willing to read them, each with their own concerns.Some related to the toxic makeup of the led’s others the damaging light they produce.

  24. bit ironic banning a simple safe bulb, just for being popular
    no point in banning what people don’t like to buy 😉

  26. Also, about CFLs..
    In post-ban EU, the Swedish Govmt have just announced an
    “acute crisis” of dumped CFLs
    USA apparently 2% recycling, 5 billion bulbs to be replaced, lots of CFL switchover programs…
    Canada maybe not great either

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