Heatball

The brand was used as part of a scheme by Siegfried Rotthäuser, a mechanical engineer from Essen in Germany, to stimulate discussion of EU Regulation 244/2009.

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

[3][4][5][6][7][8] In April 2010, two brothers Rudolf and Siegfried Rotthäuser Hannot started selling incandescent lamps over the Internet.

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.

The second batch was ordered but the shipment was held back on 16 November 2010 by the customs officials at Cologne Airport.