Heatball is a

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for an

incandescent lamp An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb with a vacuum or inert gas to protect the filament from oxid ...

. The brand was used as part of a scheme by Siegfried Rotthäuser, a mechanical engineer from

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in Germany, to stimulate discussion of EU Regulation 244/2009. This Regulation forbade the importation or sale of light sources with energy efficiency worse than 'Class C' after September 2012 as part of the

phase-out of incandescent light bulbs Various governments have passed regulations to phase out manufacturing or importation of incandescent light bulbs for general lighting in favor of more energy- efficient alternatives. The regulations are generally based on efficiency, rather t ...

. The scheme's declared purpose was to sell incandescent lamps as small heating elements for winter, or for use in

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s.Kathrin Dorscheid
''Heißer Importschlager.''
Frankfurter Rundschau Online, 28 October 2010 The scheme was covered by several members of the international press.
Bloomberg, 19 October 2010German "heatball" wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban
Reuters 15 October 2010

History

In April 2010, two brothers Rudolf and Siegfried Rotthäuser Hannot started selling incandescent lamps over the Internet. They referred to them as ''Heatballs'' and sold each as small heating device with a price of €1.69. Thirty cents per unit sold would be donated to a project to protect the rain forest, which, according to Rotthäuser, would benefit the climate more than the ban. Within a few days, the initial stock of 4,000 units was sold out and orders of 40,000 units outstanding. The second batch was ordered but the shipment was held back on 16 November 2010 by the customs officials at Cologne Airport.Philip Plickert

FAZ.NET vom 18. November 2010

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* 2011:

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Homepage to the Project

''Heatball – das Comeback der Glühbirne.''
ZDF heute, 21 October 2010 * L. Becker, E. Körner
''Heatball ersetzt Glühlampe.''
ZDF, 24 October 2010 (In the ZDF sending ''Volle Kanne'') Incandescent light bulbs Heaters

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