Reply #29: Mercury is a neurotoxin, of course.

[GliderGuider]

The mercury from coal plants is captured in scrubbers (http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/utility/hgwhitepaperfinal.pdf). In any event the electricity I use is largely from hydro and nuclear, which has a much better mercury profile than even well-scrubbed coal plants. My province of Ontario gets 74% of its power from nuclear, hydro and renewables, and only 18% or so from coal. (http://www.canadaenergy.ca/index.php?hydro=future&direct=of&electricity=electricity) The coal plants all use scrubbers, so the mercury they produce is negligible.

My decision to revert to incandescent bulbs was perhaps not politically correct, but it was ecologically, environmentally and economically sound.