Bright Idea
The European Union, as we know, has banned incandescent light bulbs because polar bears choke on them. Or something. And the US is doing the same thing, which has resulted in the last proper lightbulb manufacturer in America recently closing. The Obama thought police will insist that workers are delighted that Hopey Changey means all their jobs have gone to China.
The reason that we all now have to squint to read in the semi-gloom or turn on extra lights is officially that because of their bad efficiency most of the energy was (or is, if you stockpiled them too) transformed into heat.
So a company is now trying to bypass this by offering their incandescent light bulb products as a heating device (article in German) instead of a light device. Still, their ‘heat balls’ give light as well as heating. Plus for every one they sell, they’ll give €0.30 to some rainforest charity or other.
This is a great idea for farmers who used the advantage of getting heat out of the old lightbulbs; expecially for outside chicken coops and livestock sheds. Plus it just shows that every law can be bypassed if you think laterally.
Another one of those “Dammit, I wish I’d thought of that’ moments. What a genius! Wonder if he wants an Australian importer.
If they don’t get the EU stormtroopers turning up at their gates in blacked out BMWs and dark glasses they might make a fortune.
There’s probably some obscure EU regulation banning “Heating Devices” from giving off visible light….
Still my (simple) answer to that is for the bulbs, sorry heaters, to be covered with black paint. This will (naturally) be water soluble, and therefore easy to remove!
Brilliant idea! 😉 😛
I wonder how long it will take the money-grabbing EU killjoys to find a way of banning it?! *DONT_KNOW*
I certainly stockpiled mine; I’ve got enough to last a lifetime 😀 . Proper lightbulbs themselves are not banned (yet >:o 😉 ) just their manufacture and distribution.
And they STILL haven’t told us what to do with the MERCURY that is in all “eco-bulbs”, they sold the public a right old pup with that lie too.
You can’t out-cunning the team we’ve assembled here 🙂
Someone somewhere is already on the case. No doubt about that. And not for any good reason – just because they won’t like being beaten.
I’ve got a shelf full of them, and you can get them in some of the independent shops around here still.
The mercury stuff? You mean we need to do something special with them? In the bin with all the other stuff. They get so wound up that the slightest thing will turn us all into flesh eating zombies now that I’ve given up listening.
Fuck this, when are we going to get away from the EU and start leading normal lives?
Can’t wait for the day, but no sign of it coming.