TopGeek;693770 Wrote: > You are right (in principle) but the directives do have a lot of > strength. For instance, for how much longer do you think domestic > filament lamps will be in the shops? > They are just coming back here in Germany because people found out that a) the power consumption reduction claims were grossly wrong and b) that "energy saver" lamps are poisonous, hard to get rid of when broken (you can't just throw them away) and make bad light.
I just found brand-new 100W light bulbs in a store close to me, they found new loopholes in the legislation. > > there have been TV campaigns all over Europe reminding people to switch > off and the electricity > Must have missed those The whole thing is grossly exaggerated. My whole permanent entertainment setup (and that includes test equipment I use) including two servers and 7 SBs consumes about as much power in standby as one of these lamps my better half always leaves on running the whole day and we have a lot of lamps here. And no, I'm not even talking about the old, bright filament lamps I still use in some places. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93914 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
