Argentina will ban the sale of ordinary incandescent bulbs

According to Argentina's "horn", reported that in order to save power, starting from June this year, Argentina will ban sales of more than 25 watt incandescent light bulb.

According to understand, this is a Argentina law passed in 2008, from June 1, 2011 onwards, Afghanistan will ban the sale of ordinary incandescent bulbs above 25 watts, will be replaced by a compact fluorescent lamp, light emitting diode (LED) lamps etc..

Report also said that these new lamps represented by LED can meet the various needs in the lighting effect, and the service life is the common incandescent lamp 2 to 50 times per unit time, energy saving 30% to 70%.

Report also pointed out that most of the current energy-saving lamps in Argentina market sales price is higher than ordinary light bulbs, to a certain extent affected the promotion of energy-saving lamps. To this end, the government launched a large-scale promotion from 2008, including low-income families to provide free 5 million energy-saving bulbs.