Who I am
My name is Clint Miller. I am a Texan by Birth, Baptist by Choice, Geologist by Training, and a Follower of Jesus by Grace. I live in College Station, Texas. Currently, I am pursing my M.S. in Environmental Geochemistry at Texas A&M doing research on Arsenic bioavailability, moisture damage to asphalt, and landfill leachate from a superfund site. My interests are: contaminant fate and transport, environmental toxicology and health, Jesus, politics, and Arabic. Confused Yet? I know I am.
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Interesting site. One problem though is I wish educated people like you would also talk about the good things chemicals do (ie: safe drinking water, epoxies on composites for space age,windpower, replacing steel in cars, etc. etc.) as there is probably maybe 1000 good stories for every bad one. Negative stories often cause further problems due to wrong actions.
Now Canadian government is talking about banning BPA (or at least labeling toxic) which I don’t know what we would use for DVD’s and CD’s.
Let’s keep it positive as well.
Keep smiling
John,
You have a good point. Perhaps I should talk about positive aspects more often. Of course, I study contaminants all day so, perhaps you can forgive me. hehe
i work in a very industrial environment. i have only worked in this company for almost half a year, and have been experiencing weird side affects. We are surrounded by big disposal trucks and a land fill directly across from us, where they are constantly dumping garbage all day. i have read about mercury poisioning and most of the symptons i seem to have. i was wondering if this is possible that i could have mercury poisioning for the location i am in?
Clint, I hope you get this. I am 37 weeks pregnant and yesterday one of the CFL bulbs in my bedroom ceiling fan blew out with a pop. Moments later I attempted to unscrew it and it broke in my hand. A couple seconds later my husband came into the room and told me to leave the room immediately. He proceeded to open the windows and then closed the door behind him. Apparently he had heard on Dennis Prager’s radio show only a couple days before that these light bulbs contained trace amounts of mercury that are released when broken. I wish I had known. I would have replaced them all (we did after this incident). We followed website instructions on cleaning the mess (my husband cleaned it up) using gloves, tape, etc. The ceiling fan is above the foot of the bed so pieces of broken bulb fell onto the comforter which is airing out on the porch now before I wash it. We aired the bedroom out for hours before we changed sheets and went to bed. We called poison control and several phone transfers later we spoke with a doctor who said the amount of mercury in one bulb is insufficient to really concern us at this point. Easy for her to say, she doesn’t have a developing fetus inside her. Of course, I’m full term and my fetus is probably fully developed but I don’t know if this makes much difference since I have since read that mercury exposure is especially dangerous to the fetus, no matter what stage it is in. My question to you is this: In your scientific opinion, is the amount of mercury in one typical CFL bulb broken in my hand enough to be a real potential hazard to my unborn child? I am so worried right now but I don’t want to continue to obsess over this, especially if it really isn’t that big a deal or cause for concern. Any advice or insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you & God bless you!
Neat site. Thought you might find this one interesting:
Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World
http://desdemonadespair.blogspot.com/