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.And in true liberal fashion, we're doing the exact same thing as mandated by Obama and the Democrats.
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".
We're all going to need miner's caps to see what we're doing.
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As someone suffering from macular degeneration, I can tell you CFL make reading much more difficult. The *other* problem is disposal of these bulbs if broken. People will NOT dispose of these bulbs as recommended. They will end up in landfills for future generations to deal with the contaminants.
Fluorescent light bulbs also put out radio waves that interfere with transistor radios. All those radio waves bouncing around in one's home...is that of concern to anyone? Fluorescent lights also flicker at a very high rate of speed, making reading harder. Some of us are more vulnerable to that flicker than others.
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