low energy lighting again
lighting report makes the front page of the independent with a backup article from greenpeace
This report illustrates yet again what we all know but somehow fail to address: it is often not the demand for energy, but waste of energy that is driving us towards radical climate change.
plus these stats:
ENERGY-SAVING BULBS (compact fluorescent lights - CFLs)
* An 11-Watt CFL bulb (equivalent to an ordinary 60W bulb) costs £2.41 to run per year.
* Energy-saving bulbs last on average 12 times longer than ordinary light bulbs, with a life span of around six years.
* They cost about £3.50.
* Each bulb can reduce your electricity bill by up to £10 a year.
* They generate up to 70 per cent less heat.
ORDINARY (incandescent) LIGHT BULBS
* An ordinary 60W bulb costs up to £13.14 in electricity bills per year.
* The average life span is between 750 and 1000 hours, which gives round five months of use.
* An ordinary bulb costs around 50p.
* In most houses lighting accounts for approximately 15 per cent of the electricity bill.
* If every American home switched their five most-used light fittings to energy-saving bulbs, they would save $6bn (£3.2bn) and reduce greenhouse gases by nearly half a million tons.
* 90 per cent of the energy goes into generating heat.
Emily Dugan
Saw Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" a couple of weeks ago. An amazing film about global warming. Highly recommend it when it releases in the UK. Gosh, where was this Gor in 1999 running against Bush?
Posted by: Existential Punk | July 04, 2006 at 06:35 AM