Heatballs - Unintended Consequences of Regulation

I love it! Thanks Milo!

Sounds just about like what gets done with every other bureaucratic and government regulated compound, or device.

Rename it and focus the new marketing on another aspect of its design and now its completely legal to own and use once again.

That's a really bright idea.....har har

Don't be surprised if this isn't over. I could see the bureaucrats reclassifying the Heatballs and taxing them at a rate so high that no one would buy them.

I like the theme of your blogs lately Milo. Stupidity must be exposed, and cannot be allowed to prevail. Good job............._{let me know when it's time to start hoarding incandescent bulbs and stashing them in my basement.}

You haven't already stashed your lifetime supply?

photo credit: http://blog.xcelenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Berg-3.jpg (link no longer available)

Milo

Not yet. But I'm thinking it wouldn't hurt to pick up a box or two on my Walmart trips here and there. They last so much longer than CFLs, it wouldn't take that many to last a lifetime.

nearly right there kramarat...

they banned the heatballs in a local German court

http://freedomlightbulb.blogspot.com/2011/07/update-on-heat-balls.html

they are still (end 2011) trying to get together and finance a complaint in a higher court...)

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btw from balls to condoms, as it were...

another German (inventive aren't they!)

figured out a way to get round theEuropean ban on clear incandescents by

putting condoms on the bulbs

http://freedomlightbulb.blogspot.com/2011/12/screwing-eu-with-condom-again.html

(in the typical over-lobbied bureacratic and sometimes corrupt EU they immediately banned all clear bulbs including Halogens on the notion that "people can buy CFLs" - the lobbying profit-seeking manufacturers of course had nothing to do with this decision ;-) )

Indeed, I need 100W incandescents to illumiate my arrow speed chronometer as flourescents flicker and give a miss read. I had to buy them over the interweb.

On the other hand my electricity bill is lower than last year, maybe due to going over to CFLs, but of course a I can barely see to read anymore.
Del

Aha! Problem solved. I will certainly be pursuing the 'heatball' approach when/if the day comes that they are banned in Canada! Lovely little heaters and the waste light is an acceptable byproduct.

Imported from China you say? That would be through customs would it not. Well then there have been a number of violations commited, and knowingly as well. The fines once Customs gets around to investigating will put this plan out of business in no time. A rose by any other name is still classified under 0602.40

In the world of legaleeze you cannot change the essential character of a product by simply changing the name. Good try though.

"A rose by any other name is still classified under 0602.40"

Rats! I was really hoping Milo had scored one for the little guy with this.

Wah Wah Wah...

Milo

link: http://bitingtraveler.wordpress.com/page/4/

Apparently he's in trouble with the customs now...see the site you link to (http://heatball.de/en/) (link no longer available)

There's a wider irony about the Light Bulb Heat Effect....

US Dept of Energy etc call light bulb heat a "significant problem" as regards room cooling with air conditioning, yet at the same time ridicule the effect as "irrelevant" with regard to room heating.
On http://ceolas.net/#li6x the extent of the effect, with references, is looked at