Who Saved Watt?!

One is stodgy and ancient technology. The other is sleek and efficient. One is yesterday’s news. The other is at the center of a revolution solving many of the challenges we face. Climbing energy consumption, rising gasoline costs and electric bills, greenhouse gases, and dependence on foreign oil.

The compact flourescent light bulb (CFL for short) uses just 25% of the energy of the old incandescent light bulb. In America alone, we consume over 100 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) on lighting! At an average cost of $0.11 per kWh, that’s over $11 billion!

Consider this: If all of America’s 107 million households swapped just one 60 watt incandescent bulb that runs for 4 hours a day for a CFL, we would save 19.26 billion watts of electricity. How can that be? A 60 watt equivalent CFL only uses 15 watts of electricity. Do the math. It adds up fast, and it’s all money in your pocket. Compact flourescent light bulbs will save you money on your electricty bill and reduce your average energy consumption.  It’s good for your environment, too.

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