{"id":3390,"date":"2012-03-12T15:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T21:08:00","slug":"are-esls-a-mercury-free-replacement-for-cfl-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"Are ESLs A Mercury-Free Replacement for CFL Lights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenprophet.com\/2012\/03\/esl-cfl-mercury-lights\/\">Are ESLs A Mercury-Free Replacement for CFL Lights? | Green Prophet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If only there were a light bulb as efficient as a compact fluorescent light (CFL), but without the ghastly green light and brain-eating\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenprophet.com\/2011\/10\/egypt-mercury-disposal\/\"> toxic mercury<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Am I asking too much?\u00a0 The inventors of the Electron Stimulated Luminance (ESL) lights don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 A company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vu1corporation.com\/\">Vu1<\/a>\u00a0plans to sell ESL bulbs in Europe and the Mideast in 2013.\u00a0 Vu1 lights are based on cathode ray tube (CRT) technology, are dim-able and have the cozy glow of incandescent light bulbs.\u00a0 How did Vu1 accomplish this magic?\u00a0 It helps that I know a little bit about CRTs from the days when my brother and I repaired old televisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are ESLs A Mercury-Free Replacement for CFL Lights? | Green Prophet. If only there were a light bulb as efficient as a compact fluorescent light (CFL), but without the ghastly green light and brain-eating\u00a0 toxic mercury.\u00a0\u00a0 Am I asking too &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-interesting-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}