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  1. Re:How will I heat my home now? by LordNacho · · Score: 1 · on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out

    http://heatball.de/en/

  2. Re:Get rid of those things by BLKMGK · · Score: 1 · on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out

    http://heatball.de/en/

  3. Re:What is the best way to buy some in bulk? by BLKMGK · · Score: 1 · on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out

    How about using devices for heat that are INTENDED to produce heat? You think it's the same as a baseboard heater? The one that's temp controlled and placed correctly? Why the hell would you want a baseboard heater? Most of the world lives in those climates? Really? How about we use light bulbs for light, block heaters for warming oil, and high SEER devices for producing circulating warmth in a home instead of being an idiot trying to justify an inefficient lightbulb?

    BTW - specialty bulbs are legal for things like hen houses, they will just cost more. Why not shop here http://heatball.de/en/ for the silly warming bulbs?

  4. Re:Seriously? by fluffy99 · · Score: 1 · on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month

    Ha, You could buy heatballs instead - They are little radiators which conveniently fit into your lightbulb sockets, and are 90% energy efficient (the remaining 10% of the energy is wasted as light) : http://heatball.de/en/

    Now there's a marketing scam - selling long-life incandescent as heaters!

  5. Heat Balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month

    Easy Solution

  6. Re:Seriously? by slart42 · · Score: 5, Funny · on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month

    Ha, You could buy heatballs instead - They are little radiators which conveniently fit into your lightbulb sockets, and are 90% energy efficient (the remaining 10% of the energy is wasted as light) : http://heatball.de/en/

  7. Re:All Edison's fault by gwjgwj · · Score: 3, Informative · on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S.

    http://heatball.de/en/

  8. And the free market always finds a way... by stockard · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson

    You can already get around the restrictions if you want an old fashioned light bulb, they're just called Heatballs instead. Two guys in Germany started marketing them as "heaters that fit into a light socket" last year after a similar law went through in the EU.

  9. Re:Cost? by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Funny · on DOE Announces Philips As L Prize Winner

    Well, light bulbs may be banned, but heaters are still OK.

  10. Re:Wrong place by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb

    You want an heatball: http://heatball.de/en/

  11. Re:To expensive by drop+table+user · · Score: 1 · on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050

    "It's not a lightbulb, it's a heatball"

  12. Re:Banned in the UK already by Fusselwurm · · Score: 1 · on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs

    There's even a company in Germany trying to get round the ban by selling "heating globes" that happen to emit light and happen to look exactly like an old lightbulb.

    yes, see here

    a shipment of those has been confiscated, and the issue is going to the courts (link in German)

  13. Workaround - market a heating device, not a light by Zarhan · · Score: 1 · on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs

    http://heatball.de/en/

    Happens to be a heating device that conveniently fits into your standard E-27 lightbulb socket. As a waste product, it also gives off a bit of light.

    I for one cannot stand standard CFLs. They throw white balance of my photographs completely off with their spiked spectrum. Now, I've replaced most lights in my home with Vivalite's full-spectrum 6000K color temperature lights (so they resemble sunlight), and I'm reasonably happy with those. I still think your old tungsten wire is next best thing - it has continuous spectrum, even if the spike is somewhere around 3000K (orange).

    Anyway, I guess I'll be stockpiling some lightbulbs before they get phased out in the EU as well.