How Do You Sell Illegal Lightbulbs within the EU? Just Call Them Heatballs Instead! [Lightbulbs]

The european banned lightbulbs that suck more than 60 watts to improve the energy efficiency of a complete continent. And responding with the proverbial ” F U” are two Germans, importing high-wattage bulbs and marketing them as heating devices called ” heatballs .”

But Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law aren’t just run of the mill entrepreneurs with an eye fixed for an excellent loophole-the former is a mechanical engineer. Using his electrical savvy, he figured that because traditional 60 watt lightbulbs output 95% of their energy inside the variety of heat-only anything is light-75 and 100 watt bulbs may very well be legitimately marketed and sold as little radiators.

Rotthaeuser is open concerning the legislative scam he’s pulling, calling the Heatballs a sort of ” resistance against legislation that’s implemented without recourse to democratic and parliamentary processes.” He also says he’ll donate 30 cents of every Heatball sold to rainforest conservation, to appease a few of the guilt of grid inefficiency. What do you suspect, EU readers? Is this man a lighting hero or just a scofflaw out for a dollar? Or both? Either way, you should admit his plan takes some serious… ah, forget it. [ Reuters ]

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