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The authorities of New Zealand have approved a law that prohibits the sales of traditional incandescent lamps starting from October 2009.
According to the authorities, this measure will help to reduce the carbon dioxide production significantly and to save 500 million dollars on the electricity production in 12 years.
The Department of Energy minister David Parker has told on Tuesday that all the incandescent lamps will be gradually exchanged to more economic - fluorescent - across the whole country.
The traditional electric bulb is technologically outdated and very ineffective. It gives light using only 5% of the consumed energy - all the rest goes to the heat production.
The law projects that suppose total exchange of the traditional incandescent lamps to the fluorescent are also introduced in Australia, the American state of California and the Canadian province Ontario.
However, the citizens of New Zealand are allowed to import the outdated bulbs into the country and use them. |
