EU ban on traditional incandescent lamp has come into force, the official farewell to the era of Edison"

September 1st, EU imports allowed or production of traditional incandescent ban went into effect, the official farewell has lasted more than 100 years of the Edison era "". However, due to energy-saving bulbs brightness than the traditional light bulb, but just over time, the future will be LED bulbs replaced, there has been the phenomenon of accumulation of traditional light bulb residents.

According to the ban, from September 1, 2009 onwards, frosted bulb and 100 watts or more of the traditional light bulb will be listed, but the store inventory can continue to sell; since September 1, 2010, more than 75 watt light bulb will withdraw from the traditional market; in September 1, 2011, the withdrawal of 60 watts or more of the traditional light bulb; by September 1, 2012, completely out of the traditional light bulb market. However, the ban did not discuss the EU in all member nations, nor in the European Parliament to solicit opinions, behind the rush came out is likely to have the influence of interest groups. Recently, the European countries have snapped up the collection of traditional light bulbs phenomenon.

According to the survey materials of the European Union, to replace the traditional light bulbs with energy-saving lamps, the annual 15 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Only 15% of the energy consumption of traditional bulbs is used for lighting, and the rest has been changed into heat energy. The energy consumption of energy saving lamps is about 50%. According to estimates by experts in Austria, Austrian home incandescent 66 million, if one of the 2/3 into energy-saving lamps, the annual electricity savings of 380 million euros, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 1 million tons. However, there are many people opposed to the traditional light bulb withdrawal from the market. According to a survey of 1000 Austrian pollsters, 63.8% of people think that the use of energy-saving lamps to replace the traditional light bulb "meaningless", only 4.8% people will be home lighting all replaced with energy-saving lamps, energy saving lamps 24% no home. They do not have the reason is the traditional energy-saving lamp bulb light, energy-saving lamps not so soft light. Two energy-saving lamps containing toxic mercury, subsequent processing is relatively complex. Three is the current energy-saving lamp is a transitional product, a few years later will be replaced by LED lighting technology.