Anyway, we need to move on. Post before last, I spoke a little about the wonderful thing that is the light bulb. The purpose of this post is to develop that one - as I am a little concerned about how much factual info it actually gave. So these are those reasons why YOU should buy energy efficient light bulbs:
- 10-15% of energy use in the average house is for lighting. Now obviously if you're one of those people that lives in the dark, or perhaps one of those fools who decorates their house with lots of bright flashy things, that's going to be different - but whoever you are you will be spending heaps of shiny pooonds (that's pounds with a Scottish accent by the way) on lights - so any saving must surely be good!
- You can save a whole £9 a year (!!) for each energy saving bulb you install. Lets just examine that figure. Nine pounds! You could buy like 9 whole 99p sweets - and still have 9p left over. Now multiply that by the average number of bulbs per house - 20-ish - and you can save £180! Woot!
- They last longer. Much longer. According to the Almighty Wikipedia.co.uk, you would have to replace an ordinary incandescent bulb AT LEAST 6-11 times in the lifetime of one fluorescent bulb.
- They are soooo much more efficient than the crummy one Thomas Edison came up with. Those only have like a 5% efficiency - in other words - they waste 95% of the energy they use as heat, whereas an energy saving bulb has an efficiency of up to 60%.
- If every household in the US switched just 3 bulbs, the country would reduce electricity demand by the equivalent of 11 coal-fired power stations and save $1.8bn!
- They are way cooler-looking, and will earn you loads more brownie points when you get up to heaven.
http://banthebulb.org/ - a great anti-incandescent-bulb-blog
The energy saving trust on light bulbs
Light bulbs direct
The light bulb company
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