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Incandescent lightbulb to be phased out in favour of energy-saving bulbs
Trust me, it's not a good idea. Energy-saving bulbs are almost always fluorescent, such as strip lighting, which is a particularly harsh form. (LEDs are low-energy and they're starting to appear in bulb form, but they're not bright enough for general use yet. A few have started to appear on eBay, very expensive and sold from Hong Kong, which claim to be bright enough, but when I tried to order one it never showed up.) They're currently used as standard in shops and so forth. They can cause a variety of medical problems ranging from intense visual disturbances to migraine, and particularly affect people with dyslexia, Meares-Irlen Syndrome, autism, Aspergers Syndrome, ME and so forth, though even generally healthy people often find they cause visual problems. I can't go shopping without wearing specialist tinted glasses, usually a hat too, and even so I end up with a headache and generally unable to read. In addition, I need to use dimmer switches for most of the lights in my flat because I get light-sensitive a lot of the time and need to have low light, not to mention the dawn simulator I use for my sleep disorders. None of the energy-saving bulbs currently available can be dimmed.
If they were to develop LED lighting, which incidentally is far lower-energy than fluorescent, this idea might work. Right now it sounds terrible.
In good news, I'm still stuck at home with the relapse, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ghost_of_a_flea has been bringing me lots of DVDs to watch and keeping me supplied with food, not to mention that catnip_junkie cooked me a lovely curry last weekend. Anyway, ghost_of_a_flea and I ended up curled up far too late last night watching the old BBC Narnia miniseries, giggling and snarking all the way through and eating pancakes. 'Twas most therapeutic.
Trust me, it's not a good idea. Energy-saving bulbs are almost always fluorescent, such as strip lighting, which is a particularly harsh form. (LEDs are low-energy and they're starting to appear in bulb form, but they're not bright enough for general use yet. A few have started to appear on eBay, very expensive and sold from Hong Kong, which claim to be bright enough, but when I tried to order one it never showed up.) They're currently used as standard in shops and so forth. They can cause a variety of medical problems ranging from intense visual disturbances to migraine, and particularly affect people with dyslexia, Meares-Irlen Syndrome, autism, Aspergers Syndrome, ME and so forth, though even generally healthy people often find they cause visual problems. I can't go shopping without wearing specialist tinted glasses, usually a hat too, and even so I end up with a headache and generally unable to read. In addition, I need to use dimmer switches for most of the lights in my flat because I get light-sensitive a lot of the time and need to have low light, not to mention the dawn simulator I use for my sleep disorders. None of the energy-saving bulbs currently available can be dimmed.
If they were to develop LED lighting, which incidentally is far lower-energy than fluorescent, this idea might work. Right now it sounds terrible.
In good news, I'm still stuck at home with the relapse, but
ghost_of_a_flea has been bringing me lots of DVDs to watch and keeping me supplied with food, not to mention that catnip_junkie cooked me a lovely curry last weekend. Anyway, ghost_of_a_flea and I ended up curled up far too late last night watching the old BBC Narnia miniseries, giggling and snarking all the way through and eating pancakes. 'Twas most therapeutic.
