Electricity / CFL's
Compact Fluorescent light bulbs, commonly known as CFL's, are everywhere, it seems. Governments and Power Utilities are promoting them as a "green initiative" supposedly to help reduce energy consumption. Currently, the use of "regular" incandescent light bulbs is being discouraged and even disallowed, and sales outlets have begun phasing them out of their inventories. Very little has been said about the downside of CFL's. You may wish to be more informed about their biological and environmental effects.
"Dirty Electricity" is a side product of our electrical age, and our enthusiastic use of a generous array of electrical appliances and devices. Electric companies and authorities, electricians and anyone who uses electric current in their homes and businesses, need to become aware of the health impacts of electricity that hasn't been properly grounded or supplied.
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2012
What Happens When the Lights Go On? Nothing.
Russ Loader of Oshawa lights a bulb from the current in his bedroom floor
"Russ Loader and his wife Kathy moved into an apartment on Colborne St. in Oshawa eight years ago. The building was new and clean, and it is run by Gateway Community Homes; most of the tenants pay rent geared to income.
"Russ and Kathy -- he's a teacher, she's an interior decorator -- pay market rent. They were happy to move in, but they really wanted the apartment across the hall, with its precious view of the park and the peony garden.
"They got their wish a few years ago, but, in moving across the hall, they moved into hell. Shortly after unpacking, they began to get sick . . .
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