Posted December 12, 2009 //
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It has come a bit over a year too late but we are now seeing some traction in the UK media for the negative aspects of the Compact Fluorescent Ballast Integrated lamp. First there was an article in the Scotsman on the 20th of November and yesterday the BBC, formerly great advocates for the CFLi publish an article in their webzine outlining the majority of the issues we have been discussing for the last couple of years.
Had the gentle-persons of the press actually paid attention to our campaign last year we may have managed to get the European legislation properly reconsidered, however it is now too little, too late.
I don’t know how long the links above will work but I will try and put PDFs of the articles in the news clippings for future reference
Posted August 28, 2009 //
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Supermarket in Shenyang August 2009
If you have been following my commentary on the debate against the ban on incandescent lamps, a question I have raised has been “what will we have to pay for CFLi lamps when there is no choice?” I have just returned from a short business trip to Shenyang, one of the large modern cities in China. While there I took the opportunity to visit a large supermarket to check out what the retail price was for lamps.
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Posted August 6, 2009 //
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As many of you are aware, having succeeded in banning the incandescent lamp as of September this year, the process to review Energy Using Products ( EuP) has proceeded to tackle reflector lamps and domestic light fittings. Earlier in the year, between February and May the draft chapters of the report were posted on the website http://www.eup4light.net/. As the PLDA “stakeholder” I went through the chapters critically and produced comment documents for each chapter, these are also on the EUP4Light website. Continue Reading →
Posted August 6, 2009 //
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I was at a meeting today organised by the UK knowledge Transfer Network for lighting. Our main topic related to Ultra Efficient Lighting howwever I am not going into this here as I have just written a bunch of stuff on on that subject. An idea was floated about taxing energy, particularly for lighting, at a punitive rate over a certain threashold. Continue Reading →
Posted July 23, 2009 //
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Folks, Welcome to the new look Savethebulb.org. Those who have ben here before will be aware I have not updated this for a long time, well now we are on a shiny new Wordpress blog format it should be easier to keep this up to date. A big thanks to Emre Gunes for doing this for me as a totally voluntary effort, thanks again.
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