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"Heat Ball" - or electrical resistance

Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Quelle: Deesillustration.com

(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 a consolation prize "Heat Balls" are. (See also the article. "The light bulb is dead - long live the Heatball" in zeitgeist-issue 30 ). The "hot ball" is not a lamp. But fits into 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 good because the sunlight spectrum can read similar light it. And without neurotoxic mercury emissions.

The Heatball does not have to waste if he breaks down, you simply return it together. Breaks an energy saving lamp, their remains should be discarded after applying a respirator, the carpet o. Ä., Where the accident happened, must be carefully cut out.

All the more outraged a message to the press (General Anzeiger Bonn, 11 / 12.12.2010), that for weeks 40,000 Heat Balls from China are detained by Customs at Cologne / Bonn Airport (!)! Two engineers from Niederzier they wanted to import to Germany. The Cologne regional government commissioned 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? (more ...)