Posted on 12/27/2010 12:01:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A 4000 hour light will only last a little over a year if used 10 hours a day. I am fairly sure my lights are on this much 6 months of the year.
The stores now sell 95-watt incandescent light bulbs.
We've had CFCs in our ceiling fans for years and never fell down.
You don’t get an obvious strobe effect when the fan is on with a CFC?
My Analysis for:
Cost for 6,000 Hours of Bright Light (>1,000 Lumens)
Type Bulb
Method Tungsten
Lumens 1,700
Hours 6,000
Watts 150
W/H 900,000
KW/H 900
Cost / KW/H $0.09
Electricity $81.00
Hours / Bulb 5,000
Bulbs / 6K Hours 1.2
Cost / Bulb $1.49
Total Bulb Costs $1.79
6000 Hour Cost $82.79
Type Reflector
Method Halogen
Lumens 1,310
Hours 6,000
Watts 90
W/H 540,000
KW/H 540
Cost / KW/H $0.09
Electricity $48.60
Hours / Bulb 6,000
Bulbs / 6K Hours 1.0
Cost / Bulb $8.40
Total Bulb Costs $8.40
6000 Hour Cost $57.00
Type Reflector
Method Halogen
Lumens 1,280
Hours 6,000
Watts 60
W/H 360,000
KW/H 360
Cost / KW/H $0.09
Electricity $32.40
Hours / Bulb 4,000
Bulbs / 6K Hours 1.5
Cost / Bulb $10.00
Total Bulb Costs $15.00
6000 Hour Cost $47.40
Based on the analysis above, I can afford for my halogens to die three times faster than rated, and still come out cash ahead.
“Will neighbors be reporting each other if they spot a regular old lightbulb at someone’s home?”
why yes, of course...that’s the next logical step for the green police....neighbors turning in neighbors...children turning in parents.
GE makes these great full spectrum incandescent light bulbs called “Reveal”. I will be stocking up on them and the regular incandescent bulbs
I cannot and will not read under fluorescent light. Though I have no problem with the normal 48” fluorescents in my kitchen and garage.
There will be bootleg bulbs available.
Just like the low tax cigarettes that are sold out of car trunks nationwide, LOL
California will soon probably have the Light Bulb Police, special trained snoops who ride around at night to spot homes with decent interior lighting to identify those still using incandescent bulbs. Not sure if the use of the old bulbs will be illegal in California on 1/1/2011, but it probably will be at some point.
When light bulbs are banned only outlaws will have them.
If you live anywhere with a heating season (the snow belt, all of Canada, all of Alaska, etc.); then you should not expect to save as much. The heating and lighting seasons overlap where I live, and I use electric heat. My savings from switching to CFL, halogen, or LEDs = $0.00/bulb/year. The one exception being my porch light, which does not contribute to heating the house.
Edison wept.
WARNING: Living in the state of California has been known to cause cancer, birth defects, brain damage, and reproductive harm.
what is the state going to do when their landfills have high mercury and lawsuits from causing epilieptic seizures?
Once we have a few people in Congress who have actually shopped for and changed a light bulb, commensense just might return.
Out of my cold, dead chandelier...
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