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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on January 04, 2011, 12:41:18 PM
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Just what every European household needs: heat balls. A German businessman has decided to start marketing the items as ’small heating devices’ for households requiring additional warmth. Apparently, there’s a perceived need for that in Europe.
Anyway… very ingenious things, heat balls: they work by converting electricity into heat energy, with an impressive 95% efficiency, which makes them perfect for warming specific spots in the house. They’re also absurdly simple to make: glass, tungsten, some argon to keep the device stable - it’s all very cheap to make, particularly since it’s all off-the-shelf technology. Best of all: heat balls fit in a standard lamp socket, which means that you won’t need any kind of special equipment to use them! They’re not perfect, though: the extremely small amount of energy wasted by a heat ball ends up generating photons, which means that you don’t want to look at a heat ball directly. But even that can be mitigated by using exterior shades. Really, on balance it’s a great little device: as Instapundit (H/T) notes, very green.
What’s that? I’ve just described the incandescent light bulb?
Don’t be absurd: the European Union banned those, remember? This is just a heat generator; that’s how it’s marketed, and that’s how it’s being sold. If somebody plugs one in just to generate light, well, that’s hardly the seller’s fault, is it?
redstate (http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/01/04/heat-balls/)
Can someone do that here?
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redstate (http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/01/04/heat-balls/)
Can someone do that here?
I used to make the tungsten coils for those little devils, they are around still but hard to find.
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What’s that? I’ve just described the incandescent light bulb?
Don’t be absurd: the European Union banned those, remember? This is just a heat generator; that’s how it’s marketed, and that’s how it’s being sold. If somebody plugs one in just to generate light, well, that’s hardly the seller’s fault, is it?
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