Lighting designer, Kevan Shaw, (below) reprises his campaigning critique of Europe's current misguided moves to replace incandescent lighting with compact fluorescent light sources. One of the most used and best understood light-sources, the incandescent lamp, has become the target for politicians seeking to establish that they are actually doing something about the perceived causes of climate change. The movement to 'ban the bulb' has been growing over many years since the compact fluorescent lamp became available with built-in control gear in the late 1980s. Until the past couple of years this movement has been a darling cause of the 'Green' fraternity, but what changed this was the publication of a book called Light's Labour's Lost (OECD/IEA, 2006) that is a framework for legislation that specifically targets the incandescent lamp as a poorly performing device in converting energy to light.
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