(Source: Deesillustration.com)
About the "Off" the popular, inexpensive and eye-friendly light bulb according to the will of the EU, was at this point already some written . More gratifying is the message that it is now known as consolation "Heat Balls" are. (See also the contribution. "the bulb is dead - long live the Heat Ball" in zeitgeist-Issue 30 ). The "heat ball" is no lamp. But fits in the same socket as the light bulb; it is intended for heating, which is also available separately on it! - Nice to have even in his healthy, because the sunlight spectrum can read similar light here. And without neurotoxic mercury emissions.
The Heat ball must not in the special: If he breaks down, you simply return it together. Breaks an energy saving lamp, their remains must be discarded after applying a respirator, the carpet o. Ä., Where the mishap happened, must be carefully excised.
The more outraged a message of the press (General Anzeiger Bonn, 11 / 12.12.2010), that for weeks 40,000 Heat Balls from China are detained by Customs at the Cologne / Bonn airport (!)! Two engineers from Lower Ornamental they wanted to import to Germany. The Cologne regional government instructed in the dispute over the heat balls the Association of German Electrical Engineers with a report: Are the Heat Balls Small heaters or light bulbs?
The report came to the conclusion but in fact: It is light bulbs! It is outrageous! And this can not be imported. Point. The EU wants. Be followers of Heat Balls can about the further course of the drama on a very informative designed website information that provides a wealth of arguments all around the subject.
Did you know that the end of the bulb and the beginning of the so-called. Energy saving lamps could also have something to do with the assassination of Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, the head of the trust, and with his successor Birgit Breuel, the planned rescue of the GDR Leuchtmittrelfirma Narva, their eventual razing and the death of Dieter Binningerstrasse, an inventor and tinkerer, invented in Berlin in the 1970s eternity bulb and had patented that burns 150,000 hours?
Binniger had annoyed that a normal light bulb burns only about 1000 hours, a significant maintenance such. Example for traffic lights u. Ä meant.. However, the West German lighting industry had no interest in his invention - had the "energy saving lamp" impeto.
Rohwedder had the company "Narva", want to save the last light source manufacturer of the GDR, the there was. Birgit Breuel, his successor, had no interest in it. Only objections for cartel formation enabled initially survival. In this situation, decided Binningerstrasse 1991, even to take Narva of the Trust and to produce in cooperation with the Hungarian Tungsram his "eternal light bulbs". But it never came: He crashed his plane from ...
The TAZ published on 24/12/2008 the very readable article "Worship, betrayed and burns up" on the changing, partly reminiscent of a thriller history of the light bulb and the lighting industry.
The aforementioned correlations, committed contemporaries only encourage them to refuse us undemocratically forced upon mercury lamp. The EU knew from the beginning that this is harmful to the environment and there is no functioning recycling system, such as a paragraph of the EU Regulation are hereby confirmed:
"The mercury emissions that occur during the various life cycle phases of lamps, z. B. as a result of the electricity demand in the operational phase as well as due to the disposal of an estimated 80% of the spent mercury-containing compact fluorescent lamps without recycling, are based on the number of operating lamps for 2007 estimated at 2.9 t. It is predicted that this figure will rise by 2020 to 3.1 t, if no specific measures are taken; However, it is shown that a significant reduction of mercury emissions is possible. Although the mercury content of fluorescent lamps is a property with a significant environmental impact, it seems appropriate to him under Directive 2002/95 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 on the restriction of use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (1) regulate. "
EC Regulation plus additions to the Umweltbundesamntes from 30.3.2009 here .
Despite the added environmental harmfulness unabashedly brought tons of lamps of this style on the market and promoted massive year. So given away for. Example, the German Caritas energy saving lamps to poorer families. Of course, she does not care about their pick, at the end of their life savings. The response rate for mercury lamps still is only about 25%. The rest goes into the trash, because they are obviously not sorted out prior to combustion, and their noxious fumes land, if the Müllverennungsanlage does not have high-efficiency filter, so that in our lungs.
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Tags: Birgit Breuel , Detlev Karsten Rohwedder , Dieter Binningerstrasse , eternity bulb , light bulb , Heat Ball
I feel with my ongoing hymns already getting weird before, but does not help: such independent, investigative journalism can search in Germany with a magnifying glass - Thank you!
You do not like energy saving lamps. But one should not distort the facts: There are more environmentally friendly and less environmentally friendly lamps. The energy saving lamp belongs to the first category. The bulb for the second. Bulbs pollute the environment much more than energy saving lamps, see 2010 study by EMPA (www.empa.ch).
We have 50% share of coal power in Germany. This mercury is released. Only under the condition that you used for incandescent 100% green or 100% nuclear power, could do better in terms of mercury emissions than the energy-saving lamps. But just who betreit lamps with energy from wind, water and sun, should have an interest to waste this current very complex generated!
The quotation from the EU Regulation 244 is taken out of context. It is about the mercury emissions of ALL lamps, and especially here. Around mercury emissions from light bulbs, which are caused by their excessive power consumption, and in addition to the amount of mercury contained in fluorescent lamps design, which can be recycled but.
Furthermore, a substantial set of EU regulation was suppressed in this paragraph: "The setting of energy efficiency requirements for lamps covered by this Regulation will lead to a decrease in the total you zuzurechenden mercury emissions."
It is also wrong that there is no functioning return system. That is very good! But there are also people who give a damn about that one MUST return the lamps. So like any other recyclable product that we need to dispose of properly at the end of its product life.
So that a maximum of 5 kg Mercury assumed it would annually 100,000 Energiesprlampen improperly disposed of, they would be released. However, over 2000 tons of mercury are released worldwide, much of it through the generation of electricity from coal. Against this background, 0.005 tons of mercury from energy saving lamps and a vanishingly small amount - based on the attributable to us passing through mercury emissions by power-hungry light bulbs - they are the lesser evil.
The bulbs for lights and lamps for domestic lighting are different products, even if they look the same. The so-called. Signaling lamps have always been a higher durability, but are less bright and efficient. Binniger constructed a complex signal lamp, which would have had no meaning for the household for reasons of cost, and which would have brought no gain in efficiency. In the GDR task Narva bulbs with 2,000 hour life. But the longest lasting lamp is worth nothing if it is not yet economical. Therefore, the Narva produced in GDR times already energy-saving lamps, and would this still be done for reasons of energy conservation in significantly greater extent if the government would not collapse before.
The classic light bulb is dead or so, because there are long halogen bulbs. The quality of light is the same. Energy efficiency is at least a bit better. The price approaches more and more the former incandescent price (50 cents for 1000 hours life).
2nd paragraph: "have no interest" of course
Thank you for your extensive contribution! Yes, I do not like energy saving lamps (mercury fluorescent lamps).
- Spread a nasty, cold, foggy light, so tell us convince eyes is harmful because it has a high proportion of blue light light biologists. This can (in future more and more) result in a whole number of health problems: difficulty falling asleep, hormonal disturbances, increased heart attacks etc. What you supposedly saves electricity, we can spend several ways for future health problems ...
- The above lamps have by no means the longevity they promise, consistently they die prematurely.
- The light bulb ban was ordered by the EU Commission undemocratic-authoritarian. The committee is not democratically elected, but formed by the individual EU countries. It is a bureaucratic apparatus, the'd settle all parts of our lives with regulations u. Monitor. No thanks!
-The mercury problem:
The "saving" lamps give mercury into its environment. In case of accidental breakage, there is a considerable air pollution of the room - of mercury evaporates already v at room temperature 37 °..
The EU Commission, this was no occasion before the promotion of mercury lamps for the benefit of the lighting industry to carry out appropriate studies to obtain readings. This emerges from a submission of the Federal Environment Agency.
http://www.umweltdaten.de/publikationen/fpdf-l/3964.pdf
"Until now, for the evaluation of potential risks to health from mercury emissions from energy saving lamps only an American investigation of the Maine Institute of Environmental Protection of 2008. In these measurements, a short time after the breakup elevated mercury concentrations were determined; the peak concentrations were 50-100 ug / m3. Meanwhile, German manufacturers have carried out test chamber. It even peak values up to 500 g / m3 were of lamp breakage in hot condition found - but immediately above the floor 30 cm height. [...]
The available study results make it clear that the released upon breaking the lamps mercury levels to health are not acceptable, even if the exposure to high concentration peaks is usually of short duration. Therefore, the Federal Environment Agency recommends spaces in which regularly pregnant women, small children and sensitive persons are not equipped with fragile lamps. Especially in vulnerable areas such as in children's rooms should lamps be used with additional sheathing or other protective measures (eg shade). As alternatives, LED lamps are suitable.
· Recommendations on the proper handling when broken are from a health standpoint absolutely necessary and should already be attached to manufacturers as a warning each pack. The rapid and proper disposal of a broken energy saving bulb reduces the mercury concentration in the interior significantly. For this purpose, the Federal Environment Agency will outsource further control measurements.
· The responsibilities of the manufacturer to develop shatterproof lamps heard. "
- Problem disposal in hazardous waste, in Werstoffhöfen etc.
The EU Commission has also made here before the introduction of the Regulation no idea how the Entsorgungsproblm to be solved. How to get so carried out something? Maybe a special block warden for each stretch of road? Quite apart from it is to get consumers an impertinence, constant new ways and "trash tours" pressed. Already, a significant proportion is life in the "garbage issue":.. Collecting and Order v bottles, travel / trips to different containers, different garbage is often not accepted in household waste, such as cardboard boxes: More ways batteries, energy saving lamps: it ranges !
Problems have mercury in coal-fired power plants.
Is the power comes in Dtld. to 5o% than coal power plants. In the exhaust gases is mercury. This is stupid. However, it is completely illogical to mix the filter and emission problem with the problem of mercury lamps: An energy-saving bulb and its emissions I and U. daily at my workplace for several hours in front of my nose... Coal power plants are there already something further away.
Mercury is released from all kinds of industries: coal 45%, 10% incineration, metallurgy, cement per 10%, gold 25% profit drying. In waste incineration apply to the neurotoxin mercury but much higher limits. And in these furnaces, our mercury lamps are also very often again. The daily average is about 30 micrograms per cubic meter with peak values up to 50 micrograms. Coal power plants are there only to 5 micrograms.
Clearly: the Mercury is in coal power plants filtered out. The political pressure is already there. And also the technology for:
Method for removing mercury from waste technology HS 2010 R. Buss:
"One method is bromgestützte mercury cleaning, and which at coal-fired power plants
Sondermüllverbrennngsanlagen can be used. This metallic mercury is in
soluble salts. This requires a low Bromzusatz coal (coal 1kg contains about 0.2mg
Mercury) are required. This mercury salts can be followed by wet
Remove smoke from the exhaust gas cleaning. This method is very cost effective and achieve
deposition of almost 100%.
Another method is the dosage of activated carbon powder acting chemisorption, in which
the combustion of waste and recovered fuel (waste tires, Spermüll, pellets) is used.
With sulfuric acid (H2SO4) is impregnated activated carbon, chemical and physical
Adsorpiton of mercury and held by the following desorption, a rich gas
be concentrated and purified gas contains almost no mercury. This method
granted effective protection against mercury peaks, which occur frequently.
Example:
In Germany old power plants and industrial plants were shut down in the last 20 years and
there were modern power plants built with flue gas cleaning. This allowed the
Mercury emissions from 1990 to 2007 by 20 t be reduced to 4 tonnes per year. "
Sources:
VDI News, June 11, 2010, No. 23.
Environmental Magazine, July-August 2010, pp 45-47, inter alia,
Thus, even if in the not too distant future, all the mercury could be filtered out of coal power plants and waste incineration: The "No" to Quecksilberfluorenszenzlampe remain. Emissions in the ambient air, in case of accidents Danger of poisoning, health reasons - my eyesight would be worth it to me. And your light is too ugly
In terms of eternity bulb of Binningerstrasse I still allow myself the interpretation that especially the Leuchtstoffinsdustrie had no interest in an "eternal" light bulb. Binningerstrasse had filed three patents yes, not only in terms of traffic lights.
Patent No. DE 3001755 z. B. was a process for the lifetime of Incandescents extension.
Most courteous THANKS ALSO
Most courteous THANKS ALSO
Do I even so - merci for the info:-)
I find very important. Although I still have a few pears, as I unfortunately could not stash enough, in terms of cost, but in which light can be "live" spends, is important for the attitude towards life.
BTW had Hab mal ne "bio-bulb". So a light spectrum blend a la daylight.
I found NEN tad cold but still went.
Unfortunately it was a bit expensive and the constitution broke down quickly. but produced over 10 years may be that the children are diseases now gone and it
now is also nice-bulbs more similar lights.
If I find nothing adequates to light spender, I would prefer to use candles, as the poison pears. Just have to investigate how the eyes are then affected. (N times ask few opticians, when I'm out in the city again.
Greeting
Good article.
But one aspect, or some of the parties were not mentioned: the power companies.
Not to forget: The head of Vattenfall has been Merkel's energy consultants.
And Seriously: the manufacturer will find the course good to finally be able mchen more sales; However, the power companies also: since I'm completely switched to energy-savings, moreover LEDs, I still pay so much for electricity as before.
And the power companies sell electricity, the people degree here in Germany save, abroad - so it is not made less energy but at least the same amount.
Have a nice evening and a nice hard ...
Whether and to what extent energy saving lamps harm the environment more or less, you have to wonder whether ecological and economic benefits outweigh the freedom of the individual.
Or in other words: How many officials does it take to change a lightbulb?
Bravo
Assuming a Laben period of 10 years per energy saving lamp and 10 bulbs per household in Germany every year falls on a lamp for Entsorgang per household. 20 million households will therefore fall 20 million energy-saving lamps per year. Consisting not only of glass, plastic and some Queckilber, but also from electronic components. Who builds the apart again? 20 million per year corresponding to 70,000 per day.
Walden
If necessary please replace the bulb in the traffic signal installations (Average life 8,000 hours) to those that draw like this: http://www.manufactum.de/Produkt/172314/1448938/Signallampe-Krypton.html
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