Timeline for Do Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) create dirty electricity which can impact health?
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 22:41 | comment | added | hdhondt | The harmonics caused by CFLs do not cause any health hazard. They get "dirty electricity" moniker because the harmonics can cause problems to the systems that keep all the generators working in phase at 50/60 Hz. In the worst (theoretical) case, if 2 generators are 180 degrees out of phase, no power is delivered at all. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @GordonM: Don't get hung up on the literal definition of the word 'dirty'. The claim is that CFL causes electricity to have some property that causes ill-health amongst the people near it. Whether the best term for that is dirty, noisy or something else is something to sorry about when it is confirm the effect exists. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 13:01 | comment | added | GordonM | This is a comment and not an answer because I've not researched it, but reading the question set my BS sense tingling like crazy. Electricity is just a flow of electrons in a conducting medium, I don't see how it could be "dirty". It could be "noisy" but that's not the same thing by a long shot. | |
| Nov 18, 2011 at 6:06 | vote | accept | Oddthinking♦ | ||
| Nov 3, 2011 at 14:06 | comment | added | Chad | @DVK - It is actually a serious problem for Power Generators. I worked at a nuclear plant in Clinton IL that spent nearly 2 years to implement a distribution system that would regulate the output levels so that it did not pollute the grid with dirty power. | |
| Nov 3, 2011 at 5:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/131964040611246081 | ||
| Nov 3, 2011 at 4:17 | comment | added | user5341 | If your electricity is dirty, you need to wash the ends of the wires in a bathtub | |
| Nov 3, 2011 at 0:55 | answer | added | matt_black | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 3, 2011 at 0:49 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Another source of similar claims: dirtyelectricity.ca | |
| Nov 3, 2011 at 0:48 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @Rex, no, I am pretty sure you need to stick with one of the two types of products they plugged. :-) | |
| Nov 3, 2011 at 0:27 | comment | added | Rex Kerr | Argh. Let me guess--snake oil is also an effective remedy if you can't get your hand on Graham-Stetzer filters? | |
| Nov 3, 2011 at 0:00 | history | asked | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |