Wow
If every household in the U.S. replaced one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), it would prevent enough pollution to equal removing one million cars from the road.
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls
Comments (5)
cool. i’ll pick some up the next time i go to home depot.
i have them all over my apt, but i haven’t noticed a change in the energy bill (i read somewhere that 50-60% of the electricity bill is the refridgerator) and they are quite ugly. still, it’s nice to know that at least in theory, i’m conserving something.
are they significantly more expensive?
I love fluorescents. I bought some 3 years ago and have yet to replace any of them. And I do think my energy bill is at least a third less than it would have been. They are kind of ugly, but all of them are hidden within light fixtures.
that factoid…. how many hours per day does it imply that the light is on? and how many gallons per day does it imply the cars are driven?
sounds like some business analysts’ baloney.