■ EU: Use energy saving light bulbs for the Environmental Protection
In order to reduce energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, the European Union in December last year to ban all types of production and sales of traditional incandescent bulbs. British Ministry of Environmental Protection said that by using energy-saving light bulbs, the average family can save ￡ 37 electricity per year, the country will be carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 500 million tons.
According to official EU Directive, European manufacturers selling to retailers are not allowed banned light bulbs, imported from outside the EU high-energy light bulbs is also an offense. In order for manufacturers to gradually adapt to the traditional light bulbs will be gradually eliminated through a process. Expected to September 2011, 60-watt standard light bulb will be fully eliminated.
Prohibited within a 60-watt bulb included frosted bulb, 25 watts, 40 watts golf shape and frosted candle-shaped bulbs. 100-watt light bulb transparent September 1 this year will be banned from sale. After the ban took effect, households in the two energy-saving light bulbs had to choose one. The more affordable 3 euros each a fluorescent lamp, energy consumption is only one-fifth of conventional incandescent lamps, and applies to any shape of the socket. The other is dimmable fluorescent, but at 15 euros each. In theory, the life of these bulbs 6 to 7 years.
■ Public: New poor performance better than the old
This year in January, announced that major retailers have taken the initiative to stop selling 100-watt light bulb, and then led to hoarding behavior of consumers, we are scrambling to snap up “contraband.”
Consumers, many of the energy-saving light bulbs are not cheap either poor quality, compared with the traditional light bulb in the performance of a wide gap still exists. The public that the poor performance of many energy-saving fluorescent lamps, and sometimes even need to wait 1 minute to achieve maximum brightness. The dimming fluorescent lamps that emit soft light though, but the energy is less than one-third of the original, and only last for 2 years, more than 6 to 7 years in theory, much shorter.
UK Internet users Pierce said: “I strongly oppose the EU’s decision. I really do not like energy-saving light bulbs, the light it was giving me a headache strange, I simply can not read too Laoyanhunhua. Fortunately, I saved a cabinet of old light bulbs, enough I buried a use. If not then, I buy it from abroad. ”
In this regard, a government spokesman said that public awareness of the remaining errors, the current energy-saving bulbs have improved rapidly. Some independent retailers and commentators argued that the changes too hastily, without adequate advance publicity for the public to fully understand the energy saving light bulbs.
It is understood that other countries such as Germany, Austria and Hungary, people are hoarding high-energy light bulbs. In Germany, the consumer survey team found that sales of incandescent bulbs during the first half of this year’s annual growth rate of 34%.
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