Heatball

Heat Ball ( Heizkugel ) is an alternative term for light bulbs as part of a satirical project of the Essen mechanical engineer Siegfried Rotthäuser. This action Rotthäuser stimulated a discussion on the EC Regulation No. 244/2009 in public, which provided to prohibit point light sources with an energy efficiency class progressively worse than C until September 2012. To this end, the engineer and his brother- declared ordinary light bulbs as a small heating elements. The action took place in the international media attention.

2011, the action was awarded the German IQ Prize, which is awarded by the club Mensa in Germany.

History

In April 2010, Siegfried Rotthäuser and his brother Rudolf Hannot began on the internet incandescent, called Heat Balls and called Kleinheizelement, at the price of 1.69 € / pcs distribute. 30 euro cents per copy sold was donated to a project for the protection of the rain forest, which would bring more to the statement Rotthäusers climate protection as a ban on incandescent lamps. After the initial print run of 4,000 copies was sold out within a few days and orders amounting to a further 40,000 Heat Balls templates, the project operator decided to take a one-time re-ordering of the bulbs. The release of this delivery from China was suspended on 16 November 2010 by the Customs Office Cologne / Bonn Airport now.

The district government of Cologne was an expert opinion by the VDE, which came to the conclusion that Heat ball when they are used as a light bulb, do not meet the efficiency requirements of the EC Regulation 244/2009. 2011 adopted the Cologne district government therefore an administrative order which prohibited the marketing of Heat Balls. In contrast, Rudolf Hannot struggled to appeal before the administrative court in Aachen, which issued a temporary injunction and sale prohibited. In the main method, however, must be clarified whether the matter raised by Heat Balls to special lamps for the purposes of the EC Regulation.