Just about every bulb manufacturer that makes regular incandescent or regular tube type fluorescent bulbs makes the trendy and energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. Names like General Electric, Panasonic, Sylvania, Westinghouse and Philips should ring a bell with you.
If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY
STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than
3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy
costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of
more than 800,000 cars. * ENERGY STAR qualified bulbs use about 75 percent less energy than
standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. How to Choose and Where to Use CFLs: ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs provide the greatest savings in fixtures
that are on for a substantial amount of time each day. At a minimum,
ENERGY STAR recommends installing qualified CFLs in fixtures that
are used at least 15 minutes at a time or several hours per day. The
best fixtures to use qualified CFLs in are usually found in your family
and living room, kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and outdoors. Matching the right CFL to the right kind of fixture helps ensure that it will perform properly and last a long time. For example: * CFLs perform best in open fixtures that allow airflow, such as
table and floor lamps, wall sconces, pendants, and outdoor fixtures. |
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