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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (34979)12/16/2010 4:02:17 AM
From: Sully-1 Recommendation   of 35834
 
Dim Bulbs

By: Andrew Stuttaford
The Corner

Well, here (via the Sunday Telegraph) is a surprise . . .


<<< Soon they will be the only kind of light bulb allowed, but now officials in Brussels have admitted that energy-saving bulbs are not as bright as the old-fashioned kind they are replacing.

From tomorrow a Europe-wide ban on traditional incandescent bulbs will begin to be rolled out, with a ban on 100W bulbs and old-style frosted or pearled bulbs.

Buyers of the main type of energy-saving bulb, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), are told on the packaging that they shine as brightly as an old-fashioned bulb. For example, an 11W CFL is labelled as being the equivalent of a 60W incandescent bulb.

However, the European Commission, which was responsible for the ban, has now conceded that this is "not true" and that such claims by manufacturers are "exaggerated". >>>

The U.S. is going down the same route. It shouldn’t.


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