Garden, terrace and balcony lighting
Outdoor lighting extends summer evenings
The first fine days bring a foretaste of summer – prompting some to open the barbecue season in the garden and others to put out spring-flowering plants on the balcony or terrace. Anyone wanting to intensify the experience even more should also think of good exterior lighting: it extends the evenings outdoors.
Garden lighting facilitates orientation and makes stumbling hazards visible. Illuminated trees, shrubs or sculptures are decorative eye-catchers. Balcony lighting also optically extends the home outwards.
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End of the incandescent lamp – The alternatives
licht.de summarises the facts
The days of the incandescent lamp are numbered: it has to go because it turns only five percent of the electricity it consumes into light; 95 percent dissipates as heat. The withdrawal from incandescent lamp technology is scheduled to take place in four stages. It starts on 1 September 2009 and ends for inefficient halogen lamps in 2016.
Despite the phase-out, the lights will not go out in private homes. There are already numerous alternatives on the market. New energy-efficient replacement lamps will follow.
Lighting Special "End of the incandescent lamp – The alternatives"
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