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In the real world most people care about saving money. Whether that’s due to wear on the bulb or extra energy consumption is irrelevant.
by minitoar 5y ago
In the real world most people care about saving money. Whether that’s due to wear on the bulb or extra energy consumption is irrelevant.
- Shikadi 5y agoIn the real world people care about both actually.
- minitoar 5y agoI submit that there are vanishingly small number of individuals who would spend more on bulbs than what those bulbs would save in electric costs over their lifetime.
- wlesieutre 5y agoIn the real world people don't care if their CFLs burn out and get replaced with LEDs because CFLs are comparatively terrible and you can get a higher quality LED bulb for about $5.
- minitoar 5y agoTrue, I was just trying to explain this to my partner who didn’t want to throw out still functional CFLs. In this case the value of the estimated remaining life of the CFL + cost of new LED is less than the expected power savings of the LED.