Posted on 01/18/2011 12:02:29 PM PST by NavyCanDo
Seattle City Light is giving away thousands of energy-saving light bulbs, and water-saving faucet aerators and shower heads. Door-to-door contractors will even install them on the spot. The neighborhood outreach project, called "Powerful Neighborhoods" aims to solve a local power problem.
"We did some survey work and discovered that fully a third of the people in Seattle had no CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs) in their home at all," said Seattle City Light Energy Management Supervisor Andrew Gibb.
So Seattle City Light is going door-to-door. Specially trained and screened technicians hit the pavement and offer to replace energy-hogging incandescent bulbs with efficient compact fluorescents- free of charge. Homeowners get up to 20 free light bulbs which, according to Seattle City Light, will cut the average electricity bill by$ 60 a year.
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More Wasteful spending of stimulus dollars. And these screened door to door technicians - any bets these are ACORN workers?
Are they really telling us a whole city of people can't go out and but their own light bulbs?
What? No condoms? No free needles?
But, by gum, we do need government to deliver light bulbs. That's what makes this country great! [/s]
Arrrrgh! End the madness!!!!
My tax money is paying for stupid light bulbs in Seattle! (Take that however you want :-)
How long does a CFL have to be on/lit before it saves energy compared to an incandescent? Don’t they use a good bit more during turn on and warm up? ( I really don’t know )
Lights in our house don’t stay on very long, but they do go on and off a lot.
Just curious.
But who did a TCO on this project? This is nothing more than an expensive promotion.
fully a third of the people in Seattle had no CFLs
Only liberals would consider this a "problem".
EVERYBODY has a right to watch the Canadian Football League !!!
And where do they get “Free”. Are they picking these bulbs from a tree someplace? They are costing taxpayers 1.7 million dollars.
They don’t need condoms. To the left, the free distribution of mercury death bulbs is a masturbatory experience.
So if one of them breaks can the City of Seattle be sued for the clean-up cost?
So who is liable for damage when one of these “experts” breaks or drops one?
And what happens to those horrrrrible incandescents they remove? Do they take them away and smash them in honor of Gaea in some environut ritual?
When it’s -20 the energy lost to heat is NOT wasted.
Be a shame if fifty or sixty people went down there together, got their free light bulbs, and then accidentally dropped them on the floor, shattering them.
Which is what would happen if some conservative foundation did this.
The problem is that they claim 1/4 the wattage is equivalent, but it looks more like 1/3. A 23 watt CFL isn't as bright as a 100 watt incandescent. Bump it up to a 33 watt CFL and you'll have the light you need.
I have CFL’s in my house. They work fine, there is nothing wrong with them. They do save money (I’ve worked the numbers).
My proof? I have a wife that was just as dead-set against them as you are; believed every negative thing she read about them. Two years later she now says “what was the big deal.”
What is “wrong” with them is the left/government trying to force them on everyone. It is another example of the government forcing a solution where there wasn’t a problem.
What a crock.
Skip the CFLs and find out why all of a sudden LEDs are so fricken expensive. They were a lot less expensive until the communists in Washington decided to ban incandescent bulbs. LEDs are cheap to manufacture in large numbers. They can easily be designed into modern fixtures. Then can easily be made to have the same color temperature as incandescent light bulbs or any other color temperature the consumer may desire.
They use LESS energy than CFLs and they last longer.
Why, other than we have government morons (redundant I know), pushing a polluting technology? If they had any common sense they would be looking at LEDs. I would be willing to bet the scum pushing this in Washington have some CFL plant in their voting district.
Of all the energy saving creations ever invented, the most repulsive is the odious low flow shower head.
TANSTAAFL.
About 2/3 of the bulbs in my house are cfls. I don’t know about their power consumption during warmup but do know that they start out dim and brighten up. My big reason for installing them, and, IMHO, the really big reason for businesses to install them, is their far longer life than incandescents, meaning far less labor gets used changing burned out bulbs.
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