The Green Living Store located in the Lakewood district of Dallas has a wonderful plethora of hardware, goods and products for the eco-minded metroplex dweller. They also have a good selection of links and resources and below I have placed a snippet of an article they carry on their website, about compact flourescent lighting, that you will find informative.
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Source: Green Living
URL: http://www.green-living.com/
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Compact fluorescent Lights (CFL) use 75% less energy than an incand
escent bulb to create the same amount of light (same number of lumens). This means that a 13 Watt CFL is equivalent to a 60 Watt bulb and 18 Watt CFL will replace a 75 Watt bulb. Less energy consumed means less use of natural resources and less pollution. Also, CFL bulbs have lives of 8,000 to 10,000 hours, which means that you will replace an incandescent with a life of 1,000 hours 8 times for each 1 CFL! If you've tried a CFL in the past you might have thought it was too large for your lamp; now the mini-twist CFLs are actually smaller than a normal incandescent bulb.
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Did you know that the standard incandescent bulb really hasn't changed much since the bulb design was improved by Edison in 1879; in fact only 10-15% of the energy it consumes is emitted as light, meaning the other 85-90% becomes heat - meaning each one is a little space heater in your home. The Energy Star program says on average 7% of our home's energy use goes to lighting, but 45% goes to cooling and heating. Incandescent bulbs use excessive energy to create light and then cause you to use energy to remove their heat from your
home. With electricity rates rising every month, now is the time to start using less.
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Here is a comparison of the cost to operate an Incandescent bulb vs. CFL bulb using TXU's "price to beat" of $0.12 / kWh
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Incandescent 60W; 800 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 2.16 per month; $ 25.63 per year
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CFL 13W (60 W equiv); 800 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 0.47 per month; $ 5.55 per year
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Incandescent 75 W; 1100 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 2.70 per month; $ 32.04 per year
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CFL 18 W (75 W equiv); 1100 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 0.65 per month; $ 7.69 per year
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URL: http://www.green-living.com/
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Source: Green Living
URL: http://www.green-living.com/
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Compact fluorescent Lights (CFL) use 75% less energy than an incand
escent bulb to create the same amount of light (same number of lumens). This means that a 13 Watt CFL is equivalent to a 60 Watt bulb and 18 Watt CFL will replace a 75 Watt bulb. Less energy consumed means less use of natural resources and less pollution. Also, CFL bulbs have lives of 8,000 to 10,000 hours, which means that you will replace an incandescent with a life of 1,000 hours 8 times for each 1 CFL! If you've tried a CFL in the past you might have thought it was too large for your lamp; now the mini-twist CFLs are actually smaller than a normal incandescent bulb..
Did you know that the standard incandescent bulb really hasn't changed much since the bulb design was improved by Edison in 1879; in fact only 10-15% of the energy it consumes is emitted as light, meaning the other 85-90% becomes heat - meaning each one is a little space heater in your home. The Energy Star program says on average 7% of our home's energy use goes to lighting, but 45% goes to cooling and heating. Incandescent bulbs use excessive energy to create light and then cause you to use energy to remove their heat from your
home. With electricity rates rising every month, now is the time to start using less.
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Here is a comparison of the cost to operate an Incandescent bulb vs. CFL bulb using TXU's "price to beat" of $0.12 / kWh
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Incandescent 60W; 800 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 2.16 per month; $ 25.63 per year
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CFL 13W (60 W equiv); 800 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 0.47 per month; $ 5.55 per year
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Incandescent 75 W; 1100 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 2.70 per month; $ 32.04 per year
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CFL 18 W (75 W equiv); 1100 lumens; 10 hrs per day; $ 0.65 per month; $ 7.69 per year
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URL: http://www.green-living.com/
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