Wednesday, February 4, 2009

CFLs

lauren

Lauren wants you to know that you should use Compact Fluoresent Light bulbs instead of those old and busted incandescents! (CFL on our right, btw)

According to ENERGY STAR:
  • ENERGY STAR qualified bulbs use about 75 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer.
  • Save about $30 or more in electricity costs over each bulb’s lifetime.
  • Produce about 75 percent less heat, so they’re safer to operate and can cut energy costs associated with home cooling.
  • Are available in different sizes and shapes to fit in almost any fixture, for indoors and outdoors.
If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

Also, the SCA launched our new website today. Please feel free to visit!
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  1. Ryan McGinnisFebruary 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM

    I love the idea of CFL bulbs, I just wish they'd manufacture them with less mercury and that governments would come up with a more robust bulb disposal plan. I'm guessing 20 years from now we're going to suddenly scramble to try to figure out how to get the mercury out of our groundwater. I'm hoping that LED lights take off soon, since most people are just not motivated to do anything more with their dead CFL bulbs than chuck them in the trash bin.

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