Europe ban the selling of Incandescent light bulbs across the continent
By kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
United States
September 15, 2010 8:45pm CST
It is official, and EU take it seriously with all the retailers and businesses. On Tuesday, EU officially announced the act of banning the sell of traditional light bulbs, and LED and CFL will be the ones for the European market. The enact such law because for the sake of Green Energy saving, and the effect of global warming. In a long run, CFL and LED will save us money from electricity bills. Any store or business in attempt to import of smuggle the incandescent lights to Europe will be illegal. I just wonder would our U.S. counterpart follow the same path too? To make energy saving as a law, and encourage its citizens to do the same?
3 responses
@formidexo (1351)
• Canada
16 Sep 10
I've heard that those energy efficient light bulbs cause many health problems and are a health hazard because of the risk of mercury poisoning. Have you heard that? I have gone back to incandescent light bulbs as of late because of all the warnings.
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
16 Sep 10
Have you try LED, as it will come out late this year? It won't cause any health problem though. It definitely save you a lot of money from electricity bill. You just have to pay a little bit expensive price than normal light bulb. But it is not always the up - front price you concern, it is about the money you going to save over time.
@key2write (493)
• India
16 Sep 10
This is great step towards development. Many people don't know that LED and CFL bulbs save more than 50% of electricity bills. And also help to save electric consumption across the area and encourage to develop low cost green electricity plants.
