Embrace the compact flourescent lamps (CFL’s) and ditch the incandescent bulbs. These swirly little glowers give more light with less energy. A CFL of 26 watts equates to your standard 100 watt bulb.
These CFL’s use only one quarter of the electricity and last several years longer than incandescent bulbs. But because they contain 5 mg of mercury, you can’t throw them out with the rest of the garbage. Instead you should recycle them properly. Even though this is a small scale way to reduce your carbon footprint, if half the country made the switch (150 million people at only 5 bulbs each), we could offset 20,600,000 TONS of green house gas emissions per year. That equals 41,250,000,000 pounds of pollutants that won’t reach the atmosphere!
Cool breakdown. This post will come in handy for getting my in-laws to make the switch to CFLs.
They are stupid because if you drop one in your house you wiil have to evacuate and the cost wiil be 2000 dollars to call in a team to come and clean it up
My experience with CFLs does not match this report in any way.
Most CFLs blowout within a few weeks.
I inquired about this problem with the manufacturer and they asked if I have a house built before 1989. If so, the wiring is incomaptible and they are not likely to work as promised.
Well, my house was built in 1982 and I do not have the money to rewire the house.
I am stocking up on incandecents.