How Do You Sell Illegal Lightbulbs in the EU? Just Call Them Heatballs Instead!

The EU cast out lightbulbs that suck more than 60 watts to improve the energy efficiency of an entire continent . And responding with the proverbial “ F U ” are two Germans , importing high - electrical power bulb and marketing them as heating devices called “ heatballs . ”

But Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his buddy - in - law are n’t just unravel of the mill entrepreneur with an center for a good loophole — the former is a mechanical engineer . Using his electrical discernment , he figure that because traditional 60 watt lightbulbs output 95 % of their energy in the class of hotness — only the rest is light—75 and 100 watt electric light could be legitimately commercialise and sell as fiddling radiators .

Rotthaeuser is undetermined about the legislative scam he ’s pulling , calling the Heatballs a variety of “ electrical resistance against legislation which is implemented without recourse to democratic and parliamentary process . ” He also says he ’ll donate 30 centime of every Heatball sold to rainforest conservation , to assuage some of the guilt of grid inefficiency . What do you think , EU readers ? Is this man a lighting hero or just a scofflaw out for a dollar mark ? Or both ? Either way , you have to admit his plan have some serious … ah , blank out it . [ Reuters ]

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