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No reason? Only if you don't care about your energy bill. Running a 60W light bulb for 6-hours a day for a year costs - in California - $18.25. Multiply that
by atourgates 15y ago
No reason? Only if you don't care about your energy bill.
Running a 60W light bulb for 6-hours a day for a year costs - in California - $18.25. Multiply that by, I donno, 5 bulbs in your house and you're spending $91.25/yr on your lighting.
If you replace those 5 60W bulbs with 13W CFL's, and your cost is just $21.90/yr for the same amount of light. Even including the cost of buying 5 new CFL bulbs, and ignoring the cost of replacing your incandescent lights, you're going to save ~$65 in energy savings just the 1st year.
- tomjen3 15y agoWhich is shit for nothing when you compare it with the cost of gas, rent or (and this particulary irks me: food). I run only the bulb in the room I am in, which means i would save less than 20$/year which is less than my low care limit. Add the shit lighting early bulb death and possibility of mercury poisoning my room (you are supposed to leave for half an hour after you drop one, then clean up with heavy gloves) and replacing the bulb goes from an economically decent idea to something less than attractive.