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• Light and Building, Frankfurt 2010

  Posted April 11, 2010 // Tagged as Blog // No Comments

  Well here we are again pretty much everyone with commercial interests in lighting is in Frankfurt attending the mother of all lighting exhibitions. Given we are now 7 months into the first stage of the ban on incandescent lamps it is simply stunning how many products particularly in the decorative and domestic sectors are still designed for and exhibited with traditional incandescent lamps.

  So far I have yet to see anything new in incandescent replacements though i have not yet made it around the entire exhibition, and am unlikely to do so given constraints on time. Sad to report that Osram are still claiming an 11W CFLis equal to a 60W incandescent despite the judgment in Iceland posted previously.

  I will let you know if anything interesting surfaces tomorrow.

  evan Shaw

• Is EMF from CFLi going to cause human health issues?

  Posted April 8, 2010 // Tagged as Blog // No Comments

  Doyen of Lighting Designers Howard Brandston has spent the early part of this year beavering away in his garage undertaking some fundamental research into another area of concern around the Compact Fluorescent ballast Integrated “Energy Saver” lamps. His focus is on the Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) created by these. He has gained initial funding from the IESNA and has prepared a discussion paper identifying issues that require further urgent investigation. Continue Reading →

• Open letter from the Institte of Building Biology and Ecology, Neubeuern

  Posted April 6, 2010 // Tagged as Blog // No Comments

  Here is a letter sent to the politicians in Europe from IBN trying to raise awareness of the negative issues of CFLi. The legislation has taken place in such haste that these issues have not been properly addressed, let;s hope this will assist in opening up the discussion at a senior political level. Continue Reading →

• CFLi increases carbon footprint!

  Posted April 1, 2010 // Tagged as Blog // 9 Comments

  Again from Iceland Halldor Steinsen was awarded his MSc for research into the impacts of CFLi in the Icelandic market. His thesis makes interesting but disturbing reading Continue Reading →

• CFLi can’t be described as “Environmentally Friendly”

  Posted March 26, 2010 // Tagged as Blog // 9 Comments

  Following nearly a years work by  Kristján Gunnar Kristjánsson <kristjan@lumex.is> the Icelandic consumer authority have banned Osram from claiming that CFLi are environmentally friendly and that an 11W CFLi is equal to a 60W incandescent lamp. The decision was handed down yesterday and as soon as it is translated I will be posting it on here. Now, who is going to make a similar complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK?

  Here is a translation of the decision, the full text is available as a PDF in the downloads page:

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  Decision

  Johann Olafsson & Co. inc, Krókhálsi 3, Reykjavik, has by declaring that energy savers are environmentally friendly in an advertising brochure about OSRAM energy savers broken against 5th article, 2nd paragraph of 6th article, 1. paragraph of 8th article and 2 paragraph of 9th article of law no . 57 from 2005 about supervision of business practices and marketing.

  Johann Olafsson & Co inc. has by suggesting in an advertising brochure about OSRAM energy savers that 11W energy savers give out comparable light quantity to 60W incandescent light bulbs broken against 5th article, 2nd paragraph of 6th article, 1st paragraph of 8th article and 2 paragraph of 9th article of law no 57 from 2005 about supervision of business practices and marketing.

  With reference to 2 paragraph of 21st article of b law no 57 from 2005 on supervision of business practices and marketing is Johann Olafsson & Co. prohibited to publish advertising and statements saying that energy savers are environmentally friendly and prohibited to publish advertising where it is suggested that 11W energy savers give out an equivalent light quantity to 60W incandescent light bulbs.

  The ban takes effect on the publishing of the ruling.  If the ruling is not adhered to it can be expected that decision on fines will be taken, based on IX chapter of law no 57/2005 on supervision of business practices and marketing.

  consumer agency March 26th. 2010

  Tryggvi Axelsson

  Director

• All quiet on the Lightbulb front

  Posted March 10, 2010 // Tagged as Blog // 4 Comments

  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.

• At Last!

  Posted December 12, 2009 // Tagged as Blog // No Comments

  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

• The Real Price of CFLi Lamps

  Posted August 28, 2009 // Tagged as Blog // 2 Comments

  

  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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• Update on the EuP process for Directional lamps

  Posted August 6, 2009 // Tagged as Blog // 7 Comments

  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 →

• An Tax-Based Approach to Energy Saving

  Posted August 6, 2009 // Tagged as Blog // 2 Comments

  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 →

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