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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (331538)4/3/2007 1:04:25 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1572946
 
The reaction by a rightwing blog to the news? Its a joke. Laughing and calling them the dim bulbs of Europe....they are saying the next thing the EU will do is ban all artificial light.......only natural light will be acceptable. Its an attitude problem that has been developing in the right over time.....they are anti progress.

dinocrat.com
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Europe to Ban the Bulb

Posted by WSJ.com Staff

Incandescent light bulbs should be illegal on the European Union market by mid-2009, a European Commission spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires.

Through new, stringent energy-efficiency requirements, the light bulbs will be effectively banned in Europe’s 27 countries, according to Commission energy spokesman Ferran Tarradellas. “We will impose energy efficient requirements that will effectively put incandescent bulbs out of the market,” he said.

Governments and retailers around the world, including Wal-Mart, have been encouraging the use of compact-fluorescent bulbs, which burn much less energy than standard incandescent bulbs.

Compact fluorescents have trace amounts of mercury, raising some worries that their improper disposal could harm the environment; though it’s possible more mercury might be released from a coal-fired plant powering a traditional bulb.

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