Question of the day
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanA couple or three months ago, the EU in its wisdom made it illegal to sell, or import 100W light bulbs in EU member states.
Now I could rant about this on any number of levels, but I'm not going to and I shall ignore any comments that explain in tedious detail why high-handed Führer Directives from an unelected and undemocratic body are a good thing.
My question for today is rather more prosaic: Given that the legal replacements are shit and potentially harmful to health, why has not some enterprising manufacturer not introduced a 99W bulb, or if there is a small margin of error in the measurement of wattage, a 95W bulb?
I expect they are too busy trying to make wind, tide and solar power defy the laws of physics in an attempt to make them economically and practically viable.
Now I could rant about this on any number of levels, but I'm not going to and I shall ignore any comments that explain in tedious detail why high-handed Führer Directives from an unelected and undemocratic body are a good thing.
My question for today is rather more prosaic: Given that the legal replacements are shit and potentially harmful to health, why has not some enterprising manufacturer not introduced a 99W bulb, or if there is a small margin of error in the measurement of wattage, a 95W bulb?
I expect they are too busy trying to make wind, tide and solar power defy the laws of physics in an attempt to make them economically and practically viable.