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To: Elsie
A 60 and a 40 add up to 100.

Not with light bulbs. A 100-watt bulb runs hotter and has more light in the visible spectrum. Although a 60 and a 40 will consume 100 watts of electricity, they will produce less light that a 100-watt bulb alone. That might be useful if you need light in two locations rather than one in the center of the room, or if you don't want the room to go dark when one bulb blows out, but even two 60-watt bulbs are barely brighter than a single 100-watt bulb.

GE Basic bulbs

watts lumens lumens/watt
40 505 12.63
60 865 14.42
75 1190 15.87
100 1710 17.1

76 posted on 12/04/2011 10:59:07 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: KarlInOhio

So, according to your chart; 100’s are MORE efficient than the smaller!

And THAT’s the one the Feds want to BAN???


81 posted on 12/04/2011 7:27:37 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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