{"id":39,"date":"2006-11-22T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/technotes\/2006\/11\/22\/help-save-the-planet-with-compact-fluorescent-light-bulbs\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T09:45:07","slug":"help-save-the-planet-with-compact-fluorescent-light-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/2006\/11\/22\/help-save-the-planet-with-compact-fluorescent-light-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Save the Planet with Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">Yesterday we learned of the tragic death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=4112\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Bachner<\/a>, long-time manager of the Wabash College bookstore. Mike was a great colleague, and I\u2019ll miss him a lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">A few weeks ago I was in the Bookstore, and Mike was extolling the virtues of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compact_fluorescent_lamp\" target=\"_blank\">compact fluorescent light bulbs<\/a> to a group of students. \u201cYou should talk about those on your blog!\u201d Mike said as soon as he saw me. I added it to the list of blog ideas, but hadn\u2019t gotten around to posting yet. Today seems appropriate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/cf_bulb.jpg\" \/>CF bulbs fit in regular light sockets, but use considerably less energy than conventional light bulbs. For example, a 13W CF bulb puts out the same light as a 60W incandescent light bulb, a 4x energy savings. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Star web site<\/a>, \u201cIf every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">CF bulbs also last up to ten times longer than incandescent bulbs and generate 70% less heat. We saw the effect of this a few years ago when campus services installed CF bulbs in the library computer lab, significantly reducing the temperature in that lab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">CF bulbs do cost more. At the Crawfordsville Wal-Mart, a 26W (100W-equivalent) GE compact fluorescent bulb is $2.53, while a 100W incandescent bulb is $0.26. However, if the light is on 6 hours\/day, given a Crawfordsville energy rate of $.06218\/kWhr, you would save over $10\/year in energy costs with the CF bulb, and recover the extra bulb costs in less than three months. Over the life of the bulb, you would save over $36 in energy costs and avoid changing the light bulb ten times (note too that the single CF bulb is <i>7 cents cheaper<\/i> than 10 regular bulbs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">Save money and help the environment at the same time? What could be better? I\u2019m sure Mike would agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we learned of the tragic death of Mike Bachner, long-time manager of the Wabash College bookstore. Mike was a great colleague, and I\u2019ll miss him a lot. A few weeks ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}