The free bulbs should all be 25W soft-tone round-top in BC & ES (equiv
to 60W).

The soft-tone shell costs you some watts, but avoids the UV "bare
tube" issue and creates a more pleasant light for living areas
(basically like the incandescent philips soft-tone).

The wattages are more practical for real-world equivalence - go by the
box figures and it's simply a joke.

It would get much better market uptake - avoiding the "that feeble
thing couldn't light up Gordon Brown's head".


Of course electricity companies prefer not building new plant, so
shovel out ridiculous 4W 5W 7W 9W 12W bulbs. They are quite useless
and the light can be very harsh on the eyes compared to a proper soft-
tone shell.