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European politicians decreed the gradual death of the incandescent bulbs. But the Germans are reluctant to throw their bulbs lifetime. Doubt, for your pocket and the environment.
One can find them, until today, in almost tec port any home. But not for long, unless it be that someone has grabbed reserves. From the 1st September 2011 the markets of the European Union (EU) may not be filled with new 60-watt incandescent bulbs. When the remains tec port are exhausted available in their stores, there will be no spare parts.
The traditional bulb has been gradually displaced from the market and, consequently, of the homes and offices of the 27 members of the bloc, according to a decree of the European Commission approved in 2009. First touched say goodbye tec port to the 100 watts, then of 75. And the last, 40 and 25 watts, not survive to 2012. Altogether, an estimated 4,000 million bulbs come out of circulation.
This is forcing consumers to purchase more modern sources of low-energy light. There are several alternatives, the Commission argues from Brussels: fluorescent tubes, compact halogen bulbs, light emitting diodes (LED). Fluorescent tubes have the advantage tec port of offering a "comparable" with conventional light sources and more efficient LEDs-all-are also the greenest. The higher price of these is compensated, they say, with a considerably longer life. Halogen nevertheless bulbs were large energy consumers in a study recently published by the German tec port consumer protection organization Stiftung Warentest.
However, the Germans have a "close relationship" tec port with the incandescent bulb, with the warmth of its light, with its quick start, says the station Deutschlandradio Kultur tec port Stefan Grünwald, director of the Rheingold Institute for Media Research and Markets, in Cologne.
This explains why some Germans have come to regard the ban as "an interference in their private sphere", "a totally absurd choice, bureaucratically imposed on them, regardless of their customs, that they like even if it has become expensive," Grünwald told German public radio.
The news hit headlines in several newspapers, including the largest circulation, mass tabloid Bild. "Of how Angela Merkel was charged bulb" tec port headlined the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung day (WAZ). "A classic example of Brussels branded nonsense", and urge German Chancellor says the newspaper. Angela Merkel would have thrown the first stone, attacks journalist, putting the bulb as an example for an EU summit of 2007, which adopted an action plan for climate protection.
Critics throw warnings against these modern-saving lamps. When broken off mercury, was one of the arguments against the prohibition discussed in 2009 in Brussels. "We know that environmental protection comes at a price," says WAZ now, but "what can you expect from light sources, tec port but are more efficient, then become hazardous waste?"
According to the Commission, experts have studied possible negative effects of irradiation of these alternatives bulbs without finding "no evidence of health problems if a distance of at least 30 inches is maintained." Nor mercury in halogen bulbs represents a real danger, said a year ago the spokesman Ferran Tarradellas.
For now, in the midst of these doubts, the entry into force of the trade ban old bulbs 60 watts reaches consumers to hand a rise of up to 25 percent of the price of energy-saving tec port bulbs , as if they had not already expensive enough. LED lamps could cost up to 45 euros now.
Producers like the German firm Osram or Phillips Dutch deny the relationship of this measure with rising Brussels. The culprit is, say, the sharp rise in prices of rare earths such as lanthanum, europium and terbium, usually from China and contained in these modern lamps discord.
"Irritated" a spokesman for the Central Consumer Protection of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia showed. The content of rare metals in the saving light bulbs, energy expert said, is barely more than a gram on the inside of each lamp.
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