Comments on: Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Begins 1st September

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:43:11 +0000

They haven’t banned “the light bulb,” because, as you may have noticed, light is quite useful.
they have banned the older Incandescent light bulbs because they waste 90% of the energy you put into them as heat. CFLs do not produce nearly as much heat as incandescent bulbs and they last way longer.

In my opinion, this is an easy way of reducing our emissions and energy usage with minumum disruption to people’s daily lives.

By: peter in dublin

peter in dublin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:15:15 +0000

Thanks Brian…

Not that it changes much here in Europe (at least not until the supposed planned reviews of the phase-out process, in a couple of years time)
- but perhaps might influence the thinking in USA and Canada,
also from the point of view of actually dealing with emissions themselves (and all they contain, whatever about CO2).

By: Brian Dancer

Brian Dancer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:17:02 +0000

Peter in Dublin, yet again you impress me. You need to thank your parents or teachers from your youth in teaching you some basic common sense! I love the idea of dealing with the power companies and giving them incentives and financial support to develop cleaner and more efficient methods. Banning a product like “the light bulb” is short-sighted and only makes sense for a power-hungry group of people running the government.

Don’t force; encourage and incentivize!

By: jamesw

jamesw — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:16:11 +0000

honestly?

im no great green warrior, but you are very wide of the mark indeed.

keep brushing it under the carpet and it never goes away…

By: Dolly

Dolly — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:19:25 +0000

Of course, I agree with the ban on light bulb because we should think about the environment but ban on light bulb is not the right way to go. Light bulbs are being used about 100 years.

By: Margie

Margie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:34:04 +0000

This isn’t a silver bullet solution, nor is anything else I have come across, however a mixture of energy efficieny improvements and renewable energy sources might be able to save the planet from ignorant people like you (honestly).

Perhaps you’ll enjoy candle light when you’ve finished wasting the earth’s finite resources.

By: honestly

honestly — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:09:57 +0000

You crazies are the instigators for this ludicrous ban.

I’m fed up of BS like this, banning lightbulbs in an ostensible attempt to “save the earth”.

It’s total BS. Forcing people to buy potentially dangerous and untested CFLs is unethical. It’s like you don’t give a damn about people who suffer migraines, eye strain, lupus or the myriad other conditions aggrevated by CFLs.

All you care about is “saving the earth” at any cost, even the lies you’ve been told about how wonderful CFLs are, and people be damned.

You are sickos. I hope this ban will be overturned in court.

I for one will be doing my damnedest to waste as MUCH energy as possible as a small protest against you fanatics.

By: peter in dublin

peter in dublin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:27:38 +0000

I agree that we must think of the environment
-however, banning light bulbs is not the way to go…
Light bulbs have been safely used for 100+ years
We are NOT talking about lead paint here,
and light bulbs do NOT give out CO2 gas (like cars)…

= power stations give out the emissions, power stations can of course be dealt with directly
(CO2 processing and/or energy substitution, as is already planned anyway).

Ironically the environmentally questionable CFL lights are the one being promoted – in another world, those mercury containing bulbs would be the ones banned!

For all reasons why banning bulbs is wrong,
and why the energy emission savings arguments don’t hold up,
and for the EU and industrial background politics behind the ban
see http//www.ceolas.net/#li1x onwards

(if banning was nonetheless desired, government could gain (or could have gained) a lot of income from a tax that nevertheless reducedthe sales on the cheap popular bulbs which could be used towards home energy schemes and renewable projects, lowering emissions much more than remaining bulbs were causing them = a pound or two on reduced c.250-300 million annual sales would give substantial sums)