{"id":640,"date":"2011-02-22T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2011-11-09T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:55:20","slug":"burned-out-cfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Burned (out) CFL &#8211; February 22, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>Installed horizontal for about a year<\/strong>&#8221; is the report which came with this photo.<\/p>\n<p>It was removed from a home in Loiusville, KY.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burned-CFL-w-UL-label-rsz2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-649\" title=\"Burned CFL w UL label rsz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burned-CFL-w-UL-label-rsz2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burned-CFL-w-UL-label-rsz2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burned-CFL-w-UL-label-rsz2.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is that the UL label on the right side, about an inch from the burned area?\u00a0 Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>If you find this to be an <strong><em>acceptable failure mode<\/em><\/strong>, and if you do not care about the people around you, then go ahead and convert to CFLs.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, <strong>call your Congressman and Congressman Fred Upton, Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, at Phone: (202) 225-3761<\/strong>.\u00a0 He said he&#8217;d repeal the incandescent ban.\u00a0 Perhaps we need to remind Congress of the &#8220;WHY&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the EPA &#8220;Suggestions&#8221; for Cleanup of a Broken CFL, in the &#8220;Posts&#8221;.\u00a0 Be sure you read the part about throwing away your clothes if they have any particles on them.\u00a0 And these are harmless little Green Wonders?\u00a0 Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Installed horizontal for about a year&#8221; is the report which came with this photo. It was removed from a home in Loiusville, KY. Is that the UL label on the right side, about an inch from the burned area?\u00a0 Hmmm. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/?p=640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,50,51,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cflimpact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}