The hottest thing in household energy savings is the compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL). CFL’s cost a bit more than conventional incandescent light bulbs but use 1/3 the electricity. They also last up to 10X longer than incandescent light bulbs.
In the early days, CFL’s were dim and expensive. No more. A 7-watt CFL is comparable to a incandescent 40-watt light bulb, and a twenty 26-watt CFL equates to a 100 watt incandescent light bulb.
If every American exchanged out just one incandescent light bulb for a CFL lightbulb, we would collectively save more than $8 billion in energy costs, prevent the burning of 30 billion pounds of coal and prevent two-million cars worth of greenhouse gas emission entering our atmosphere per year. Incandescent light bulbs are to be banned across the European Union by 2009.
Please help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and help to protect our environment from the increasing risk of global climate change.
Put it on your to do list- Change your lightbulbs this week!!!