There has been very little to report in the last few months. The EuP process has not managed to get anywhere with the reflector lamps legislation apart from delaying dates for publication of draft legislation yet again. I all fairness the report that they received from VITO was pretty hopeless and they have chosen to lump domestic light fittings into the topic and there just is no way of realistically determining the efficiency of a lampshade!
I have been trying to figure out how to post one of my talks on here but am en-mired in technical problems not the least of which is trying to film one of my lectures, the last attempt failed because of poor sound quality.
One interesting paper that has be produced and will find its way onto the site soon is an MSc Thesis by Halldor Steinsen fro Iceland who has undertaken a detailed study of the impact of the proposed ban on incandescent lamps in Iceland and substantially proves that a change to CFLi will produce a net increase in CO2 emissions attributable to the change over rather than savings ! i am working with Halldor to provide an edited version of the paper for publication here and elsewhere.
Please do keep in touch with this site through comments and any information you may have as a submission.
will look forward to the talk posting,
and Halldors work
I was communicating with a Finnish State TV commentator
a while back about an EU light bulb ban critical programme he was doing
It turned out pretty good (of course!) though he had little time to take up all my suggestions
It reflects what Halldor will likely say too about CO2 emissions
(edited from the English transcript of a Finnish TV programme October 26 2009, questioning the savings reasons for a ban)
http://ohjelmat.yle.fi/mot/arkisto/mot_hehkulampun_hautajaiset/transcript_english/
Professor Matti Lehtonen and his research team at the Helsinki University of Technology’s Department of Electrical Engineering wanted to find out how people adjust their home energy consumption if incandescent light bulbs are replaced by CFLs.
Matti Lehtonen estimates that about 80, maybe even 90 per cent of an incandescent lamp’s “wasted heat” can be captured for heating, if it’s in an insulated room.
Lehtonen’s team figured out how much extra heating energy is needed to replace the wasted heat from incandescent light bulbs after they have been replaced by CFLs. The team was particularly interested in how much effect the switch has on carbon dioxide emissions.
The results might seem surprising.
Lehtonen: “If you have a house with electric heating, the climate benefit is going to be very small.
More or less the same energy is then used to heat the radiators.
And if your house is heated with oil, and we calculate the climate impact of the change, with a conventional electricity generating mix [to power the lighting], we get an increase in carbon dioxide emissions.”