Let The Sunshine In
Jan. 27th, 2003 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kublakhanA friend of mine recently completed a little personal project of his. He has replaced all of the interior lightbulbs in his house with compact fluorescents. Truth to tell, I didn't even notice until he pointed it out to me. And, other than a couple of the lights taking a minute or two to get to full brightness, I didn't notice that they worked any differently than regular incandescents.
I asked him how much he was saving by changing all the lights. He said that his previous month's electric bill was $45 (with just him in the place and the lights off during the day). The next month's (with his girlfriend and her daughter staying there 24/7) was $35. Considering there was a drop in the bill with an increased light usage, I was stunned. And jealous.
We use a few compact fluorescents in the house but nowhere that gets used too frequently (closets and storerooms, mostly). The rest of the house's fixtures have the old tried and true incandescents. And we are very prone to leaving lights on. As soon as we come in, almost all of the main floor's lights are turned on and stay on until we go to bed. That's 640 watts of juice for 5-6 hours. And that's assuming we don't go to any other part of the house. If we replaced all the lights in the house and turned them on, we could cut that in half while increasing the light the fixtures put out.
'Course, considering that the cost of that little venture would be $15 per bulb, I think it's something that's going to have to be a progressive thing. Assuming, that is, we can find the money to pay for 'em.
I asked him how much he was saving by changing all the lights. He said that his previous month's electric bill was $45 (with just him in the place and the lights off during the day). The next month's (with his girlfriend and her daughter staying there 24/7) was $35. Considering there was a drop in the bill with an increased light usage, I was stunned. And jealous.
We use a few compact fluorescents in the house but nowhere that gets used too frequently (closets and storerooms, mostly). The rest of the house's fixtures have the old tried and true incandescents. And we are very prone to leaving lights on. As soon as we come in, almost all of the main floor's lights are turned on and stay on until we go to bed. That's 640 watts of juice for 5-6 hours. And that's assuming we don't go to any other part of the house. If we replaced all the lights in the house and turned them on, we could cut that in half while increasing the light the fixtures put out.
'Course, considering that the cost of that little venture would be $15 per bulb, I think it's something that's going to have to be a progressive thing. Assuming, that is, we can find the money to pay for 'em.
