Posted on 09/01/2010 8:05:10 AM PDT by markomalley
BRUSSELS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Wednesday marks the end for the 75-watt incandescent light bulb for European consumers, the European Parliament announced.
The 100-watt light bulb was phased out in 2009 and Wednesday marks the end of the 75 W versions. The European Parliament said the light bulbs would remain on store shelves while supplies last.
European consumers by September 2011 will no longer be able to purchase 60 W, 40 W and 25 W light bulbs. The European Parliament said compact fluorescent, halogen, light-emitting diode or "improved incandescent" light bulbs will replace the conventional light bulb in the European Union.
"The motive behind the change is the energy inefficiency of the old bulbs -- which generate a great deal of heat -- compared to newer models," Parliament said in a statement. "In addition newer bulbs can save money as they can last six to 10 times longer than the old ones."
A conventional incandescent light bulb, Parliament added, converts only 5 percent of the energy it consumes into emitting light.
Europe estimates the switch will save as much energy as Romania consumes in an average year and remove around 15 million tons of harmful emissions from the atmosphere.
What to use for ovens and refrigerators?
The conversion the packages use are 1 CFL watt = 4-5 incandescent watts, so a 15 watt CFL is listed as replacing a 60 watt incandescent. From what I've seen a 3x factor would be more accurate for real usage, so a 15 watt CFL only really matches a 45 watt incandescent and you'll need a 20 watt CFL for a 60 watt incandescent.
I have one of those new bulbs in a fixture that gets a direct hit from an A/C duct. As soon as the A/C turns on you can watch it dim noticably!
Let me get this straight:
"Manmade Global Warming" is the reason we're changing to bulbs that create MORE heat than what we're currently using?
Brilliant!
if you break it, get some thick gloves on, those things have some mercury in there and theres a debate going on that they are in fact quite harmful if broken.
I believe that the USA law exempts specialty incandescent lamps such as oven bulbs, miniature lights, floods and spots and some lamps >100 watts. Not sure of the precise set of exceptions.
There is certainly a place for CFL’s, florescent tubes, LED’s and halogen, but to ban the incandescent, to say you may not buy or utilize one, is draconian and stalinistic.
No doubt, the libs would just love to implement that here.
where the actual halogen bulb is about an inch long and enclosed in the larger glass envelope. The surface isn't hot enough to catch anything on fire, but it causes cheap plastic sockets and shades to turn brittle quickly. But then the cheap lights I buy might just have turned brittle with any lights.
this is about money.
there are no royalties for a regular light bulb. They are cheep to make.
Profits margins are too low.
BUT philips and GE make big bucks because they own the patents for their “new” lights. More expensive, royalties paid.
follow the money.
exactly. Thats exactly it.
Anybody got the record of GE campaign contributions? Just curious; Dems and RINOs is my guess.
So what if CFLs are more energy efficient? I deserve the liberty to use whatever bulb I want, because I pay for the energy. I could even be using so-called green energy from my own solar panels to power my lighting, but the statists don’t care. If they can regulate this, then they can regulate everything.
I actually prefer CFLs, but there are some places where I use incandescent. The concept that incandescent bulbs are bad because they waste energy as heat is actually one of their advantages for certain applications. Incandescent bulbs also give off a distinctly different color of light, and they come on much faster in cold environments.
The statists would fight to the death to protect choice when it comes to sodomy or abortion, but they’ll deny us a lousy 100W bulb. And they wonder why some of us DETEST them!
GE owns MSNBC?
Don’t halogen lights cause health problems for some people?
I know the post office had problems with their high output lights because they were not putting the lens covers over the lights. The bulbs were putting out UV light and causing sunburn and illness.
Probably nothing. He'd still be too busy complaining about how his phonograph invention was corrupted by all that awful popular music and (gasp) jazz.
a short blurb about the health risks:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/fod/oc/500-599/559-9.htm
and halogen lights causing (increase risk) of skin cancer
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/16/us/new-study-bolsters-skin-cancer-s-link-to-halogen-lamps.html
2011 they die
Fluorescent,got mercury?.
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