Less than a year remained before the prohibition on the use of traditional incandescent bulbs with a capacity of more than 100 watts and the transition to energy -saving lighting technologies. Therefore, now many are wondering how safe the energy -saving lamps are. After all, a fifth of the population of our country refuses to buy such lamps, fearing their negative effects on the body. However, is the energy -saving lamps really are so dangerous as they say about it?
The main disadvantage, which is attributed to fluorescent lamps, is the content of mercury, which can cause severe poisoning if such a bulb accidentally breaks. But Navigator energy -saving lamps contain only 2 mg of mercury, while the usual mercury thermometer contains 2 g of mercury, which is much larger than that of a modern fluorescent lamp, but this does not scare anyone. In addition, the Navigator lamp does not include liquid mercury. Amalgam mercury is introduced into the flask of a modern energy -saving lamp, respectively, the mercury is connected and even in case of damage to the flask will not cause poisoning in humans. Therefore, from the point of view of a potential threat to health, these lamps are completely safe.
Also, the defenders of nature claim that the population of our country will be unlikely to hand over the energy -saving Navigator lamps, which have served their term, for processing, which means they, getting into a landfill and breaking up, will poison the environment in pairs of mercury. However, at the same time it is silent that when burning coal, which serves as fuel for power plants, mercury is also released into the atmosphere. And the more we consume electricity, the more mercury enters the atmosphere during the operation of the power plant. And the replacement in each apartment of only one ordinary incandescent lamp of 100 W per lamps, the navigator will save electricity on a city of such a city as Moscow, 800 MW. Accordingly, the lamps used everywhere applied by Navigator will help reduce the amount of mercury entering the air when burning coal in power plants. Therefore, the use of energy -saving lamps is effective in terms of savings and completely safe.