Don't ignore the hassle of the all to frequent incandescent failing at inconvenient times... (never burn out in the day time). In many cases the labor is significant.Brian Roth said:Being the "cheap bastard' that I am....
(and for a moment, IGNORING the electric company costs...)
Yes, those are indeed larger sources of potential improvement, but harder to do from a distance.OTOH, here at "Camp Chaos", the fridge, freezer and (especially!) the central A/C in summertime are the Main Power Suckers! Year 'round here, I'm also constantly switching OFF unused lighting fixtures....
Looks like the Govt. is trying to "look good" to the tree huggers.....
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Bri
I truly hate to say something good about the government, but in the margin there is a lot of electricity wasted when you count every light socket, everywhere. So it can add up to real savings. I still question the need to put the government's heavy thumb on the scale to make it happen sooner than it would from free market forces. At least their math is more correct than so much of their other energy policy.
The CFL seems a bridge technology until LEDs settle down in price... We could have probably lived without the CFL adventure in the middle by waiting. All the mercury introduced into our homes seems like a Faustian bargain that may haunt the government policy makers, or give them something else to micro-manage.
JR