Energy saving era eliminates energy-saving lamps?
In fact, in the era of energy-saving lamps, some companies proposed the term “healthy lighting”. However, “healthy lighting”at that time was just another expression of lighting environment design and did not really involve the nature of light.
A document from China Lighting Appliances Agreement:The European Union will implement stricter environmental protection regulations from September 1, which will restrict the launch of mains voltage tungsten halogen lamps, low-voltage tungsten halogen lamps, and compact and straight tube fluorescent lamps for general lighting in the EU market.The EU Ecological Design Rules for Light Sources and Independent Control Devices released in 2019 and the 12 RoHS authorization directives released in February 2022,It will affect the launch of compact and straight tube fluorescent lamps for general lighting as well as mains voltage tungsten halogen lamps and low-voltage tungsten halogen lamps on the EU market in the coming weeks.With the rapid development of LED lighting products, their high efficiency and energy-saving attributes are increasingly favored by the market. Traditional lighting products such as fluorescent lamps and tungsten halogen lamps are gradually withdrawing from the market. In recent years,In order to deal with climate and energy issues, the EU attaches great importance to the energy-saving and environmentally friendly attributes of electrical appliances and continues to improve relevant product performance requirements.
Why do EU countries restrict the use of fluorescent energy-saving lamps? We believe the following points exist:
1.Fluorescent energy-saving lamps use liquid mercury (commonly known as mercury) as a light source stimulator. But mercury is toxic and pollutes the environment. 1g of mercury can pollute 80 tons of water, causing adverse effects on human health and threatening people's lives and safety. To the safety of people's lives, on January 19, 2013, the United Nations Environment Program adopted the Minamata Convention, an international convention aimed at controlling and reducing mercury emissions on a global scale, and made detailed provisions on the specific emission restriction range to reduce the damage of mercury on the environment and human health. 128 countries and regions around the world have signed this convention.China ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury in April 2016. In accordance with the requirements of the Convention, state parties will ban the production, import and export of mercury-containing products starting from 2020.
2. Fluorescent energy-saving lamps flicker too much, causing great damage to human eyes and seriously affecting people's visual health. Fluorescent energy-saving lamps generally use electronic ballasts, which are easy to produce a large amount of strobes, and even some of the strobes can be detected by the human eye. This kind of strobe can easily cause eye strain, which is not conducive to reading and writing at close range.
3. The spectrum of fluorescent energy-saving lamps is a discontinuous spectrum, especially the blue light spectrum is obviously high, and excessive blue light can cause great damage to human eyes. The sunlight in our daily life has a continuous spectrum, and the spectrum curve is full and smooth, making the human body feel comfortable. The discontinuous spectrum of fluorescent energy-saving lamps is like a wave. Some spectra are too high and some are too low. Whether it is too high a spectrum or too low a spectrum, it will have adverse effects on human health.
energy saving lamp spectrum
Sunlight spectrum
4. Fluorescent energy-saving lamps use glass shells, which are easily broken. Once the glass shell is broken, the liquid mercury inside will volatilize into the air, causing air pollution. Moreover, fluorescent energy-saving lamps also require the use of large amounts of glass and mercury in the production process, which also poses environmental problems. Under such circumstances, fluorescent energy-saving lamps will pollute the environment from production to use, and environmental problems will arise. Especially in public spaces where there is a large flow of people, environmental problems with fluorescent energy-saving lamps will affect people's health.
5. Fluorescent energy-saving lamps have certain defects in color temperature selection, CRI performance, flicker, glare, etc. These defects have a negative impact on human health, so they need to be used with caution. Moreover, compared with LED lights, fluorescent energy-saving lamps are not energy-saving. Their power and luminous efficiency are much lower than LED lights, resulting in a waste of energy in society and detrimental to sustainable development.
Comparing the spectrum of energy-saving lamps with the spectrum of sunlight, it can be seen that many colors of light in the spectrum of energy-saving lamps are missing. Working and living for a long time under this kind of light with insufficient spectrum will have a certain impact on people's physical and mental health. For example, the lack of red light and yellow light can increase the risk of depression and fatigue; the lack of infrared light can cause a decline in immunity and skin deterioration; the lack of green light can affect digestion and body balance.
In fact, in the era of energy-saving lamps, some companies proposed the term “healthy lighting”. However, “healthy lighting”at that time was just another expression of lighting environment design and did not really involve the nature of light. Until 2015, Yulin Wu, then president of the Foshan Lighting Association, combined his years of research on sentimental lighting and healthy lighting, starting from the nature of light, proposed focusing on the impact of different spectra on human health, and then upgraded the “healthy lighting”, the meaning of it is that Light health refers to the application of light to keep people's physiological and psychological functions in a healthy state. The medium used in light health is light, the essence of application is spectrum, and the goal achieved is human health. In fact, human beings live under the sun's rays every day and therefore have a healthy body. However, how humans can independently and controllably apply light technology to achieve health goals is a subject that requires continued in-depth research.
To make more people in the lighting industry to correctly understand and understand “healthy lighting” and truly realize the huge potential of the healthy lighting industry, Mr. Yulin Wu and Casio Lighting have made many efforts and are truly the pioneers of China's healthy lighting industry.
Under the guidance of Academician Ying Gu and Dean Jian Ge, he proposed that “sunlight is the healthiest light”, published the first professional book “Light and Health” in China's healthy lighting industry, and established the first company in China's healthy lighting industry.This is Guangdong Cosio Lighting Co., Ltd., which has held special exchange conferences in the field of healthy lighting for many years and disclosed the three major technical cores of China's healthy lighting industry, they are the Light Code, the Light Formula, and the Light Control. Implementing the five major models of China's healthy lighting industry of behavioral model, emotional model, natural light model, health care model, medical model... All of this is the result of Guangdong Cosio Lighting Co., Ltd. headed by Mr. Yulin Wu. Outstanding contributions to the development of China's light health industry! In the field of China's optical health industry, Mr. Wu Yulin and his Guangdong Cosio Lighting Co., Ltd. are the true pioneers, pioneers and innovators!
Facing the elimination of energy-saving lamps, everyone should realize that health is eternal. We also hope that more people will actively participate in the light health industry and accelerate the healthy growth of China's light health industry.