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Most people think that fluorescent bulbs are more energy-efficient than incandescent bulbs are, and there is no wonder Australia (first) and Canada (second) intend--this is stunning--to ban incandescent bulbs! It is possible other countries could "join" this hellish idea, therefore we had to take action with this article. Now, each the two mentioned governs employs scores of well-paid, well-fed, and greatly rewarded "technical experts" to help them rule "wisely". Those "experts" have delivered, and the result is: ban the incandescent bulbs to lower "polluting emissions"! (That could happen only on their "governmental diagrams".) However, just a shade further from "details" there is Global Picture, as follows: A. Fluorescent bulbs work with mercury--a terrible poison--and that means we save on "polluting emissions" at the expense of poisoning our environment. Regardless of how careful we are, a good percentage of the fluorescent bulbs ends up today--and tomorrow--broken, therefore they release uncontrollably the mercury they contain. If we complain about "global warming" these days, tomorrow we may have "global-scale mercury poisoning". Please, DO NOT FOOL WITH MERCURY POISONING PEOPLE! B. The fluorescent light is terrible for human eyes, because it is narrow-band optical radiation. This was never publicized: using fluorescent light is ruining our eyesight. That is the reason most people experience headaches after the first 2..3 hours in workplaces where fluorescent light is used intensively. Consider this: in addition to being a narrow-band optical radiation--therefore, terrible for any eye, animal or human--fluorescent light is pulsing at 60 Hz in N America (and possibly in Australia) and at 50 Hz in Europe and the rest of the world. Although 60 Hz is a bit better, it is still EXTREMELY straining for our eyes. Consequently, people feel "tired" and "sleepy" after the first few hours at work. Just a rough estimation, it is possible people work at under 40% of their intellectual capacity due to improper--more precise, "torture-like"--illumination conditions at their working places. Further, damaged or tired eyes generate a lot of abnormal functionality for your entire organism in general, and for your nervous system in particular. In contrast, incandescent bulbs have a very slow raise/fall thermal curve, therefore the pulsing nature of the power grid disappears COMPLETELY! In rich countries, where fluorescent light is used a lot, and preferentially, the percentage of people having vision troubles is overwhelmingly alarming. For those who do not know, over 75% of the eye-glass wearing people could throw them away if they take care of their eyes appropriately. What they need is plenty of natural light, and a distant, nice horizon/sky-line to watch. The eye is an extremely complex organ, and it does have the capacity to correct impaired vision ITSELF! All you need to do to help your eyes recover is to eliminate all sources of narrow-band optical radiation--the fluorescent light! Mind this: the closest artificial light to the natural one--the sunlight--is generated ONLY by the old, reliable incandescent bulb. C. Incandescent bulbs may be easily improved to become 10 times more energy-efficient than they are today. Just think of the nice, white light generated by a little flashlight bulb working at 3V! Unfortunately, the experts--people having stunning resumes with tens of years of "light bulbs" experience--advocate/promote only the fluorescent light. The psychological drive behind that is, the incandescent light bulb is way too simple, technically, while the florescent one offers tempting and exciting grounds for "technical ingenuity"! People adore making things far more complex than the need to be. Note again that fluorescent light is terribly damaging for our eyes in particular, and for our health in general--just talk about this with a true specialist doctor, if you will ever manage to find a honest/humanitarian one. D. In spite of the apparent savings in energy when they are normally used, fluorescent bulbs have additional, hidden energy-costs related to their complex fabrication process, and to the technology needed to destroy them safely. Overall, fluorescent bulbs are more "energy inefficient", and they do generate MORE "polluting emissions". This little social-psychology incident is a perfect example of the existing/real level of average social intelligence (read A38). The only puzzling aspect is that Australia is the first, and Canada the second ... or maybe not. The truly "bright idea" would have been replacing all indoors existing fluorescent bulbs with incandescent ones. As for reducing polluting emissions, there are very, very many, way better strategies; all it takes is just a little bit of intelligence. [Fragment from "Global Picture in News" April 26, 2007. © Corollary Theorems Ltd.] * We mentioned few times by now the "Universal Imbalance Principle", and time has come to explain it--better said, a small part. Now, we have few physical laws, among which the "Energy Conservation Law" is the most important. This law says: Energy is not created; energy is not consumed; energy changes, only, from one form to another. As you can see, all physical laws, principles, and theorems start from a statement, or a set of statements as the one above. Mathematical implementation of those statements comes later, and it may take many forms. Anyway, the point to note is, the Energy Conservation Law is one of the most important one in Physics, if not THE most important. Hundreds and thousands of corollary theorems have been postulated, based on this law--for example, consider Kirchhoff's equations for electrical nets: they were written according to the Energy Conservation Law. The point to note is, this mighty Law brings a perplexing observation: before the Big-Bang Time Zero there was NOTHING. Next, the Big-Bang comes, and that pops-up a terrible amount of energy into the Atomic Universe. In fact it looks like that energy it is still being injected today in this side--please read our previous articles. It appears the Energy Conservation Law doesn't work in this Big Bag spectacular instance which is also THE most important one. Fact is the Law works just fine. All energies existing in our Atomic Universe come from Subatomic, from Primary Energies--details are presented in THREE STORIES FROM HILSA'N TASSA GALAXY and in MERCY.
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