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Spain says goodbye to the old-fashioned lightbulb
By h.b. - Jun 26, 2008 - 6:37 AM
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A Spanish Congress Committee has agreed to ban conventional light bulbs in three years time. It’s been calculated that the old light bulbs consume 3% of the total energy produced in Spain, and they will be replaced, except in exceptional circumstances, by low consumption bulbs. Such circumstances could be in some medical situations for example.
All the parliamentary groups approved the suggestion made in the Environment Commission in Congress, by the Catalan group CiU.
It’s calculated that there are 350 million old fashioned lightbulbs in Spain, about 25 per home, and that their replacement will save 6.5 tons of CO2 each year.
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