What is it with the EU and light bulbs? No sooner than they ban ordinary filament light bulbs that gave a decent amount of light and replace them with so-called 'green' bulbs that are poisonous because they are full of Mercury - and are even dimmer than the average EU Commissioner, the next thing it gets up to is change the way the measure of the light from them is described.
Light bulbs for years have been rated by wattage, this was a nice easy way to know how much light the bulb would deliver. A 40 watt bulb would be quit dim, whereas a 100 watt bulb gave a lot of light - hence it being so popular. Sadly, the EU is proposing dropping the term wattage, the name of which was based on the Scottish scientist James Watt, to be replaced by the meaningless term 'lumens'. A 60w bulb will become an 800 lm which is due to create great confusion.
Even now, after years of people being forced by the EU to purchase their petrol in litres rather than traditional gallons the majority of motorists don't actually know how much fuel they have purchased except by value. Now the same thing is going to happen to our light bulbs, if you can call the useless EU enforced bulbs we have now light bulbs.
Yet again here is another bright idea from the EU that we don't want or need. Here is an even brighter idea, let's get out of the EU at the speed of light.
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This is a letter from a man who knows his stuff when to comes to Light Bulbs:
http://www.westbournemouthukip.com/forum/forum.htm
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