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To: b4its2late

Me, too. Not to save the Earth, to save me some money. Utility bills can be killers during the winter months.


9 posted on 03/22/2013 1:12:14 PM PDT by beelzepug (Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
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To: beelzepug

Spring started two days ago.


25 posted on 03/22/2013 2:04:23 PM PDT by 1raider1
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To: beelzepug

Be aware that unless you live in Florida or South Texas or something, incandescent lighting in the winter is essentially free (or more truthfully, really cheap) assuming there’s no heat wave in the upper latitudes.

What honks off the greenies about incandescents is that only about 5% of the energy that goes into them comes out as light - the remaining 95% or so gets converted to heat. In the summer, that heat is waste heat - wasted energy. But in the winter, any heat emanating from your light bulbs is heat that you don’t have to supply from your furnace or gas stove or whatever. In the winter, it’s not wasted. Does it make a whole lot of difference? no, not really.

But neither does turning off one’s lights for Earth Day. If those pinheads really wanted to save some energy, they should try to talk people into turning off their lights in the middle of August. But even then, it’s an exercise in stupidity - the utility companies have to keep their turbines spinning for the inevibable surge after the moronic Earth Hour is over, and you can’t torque those things up instantaneously.


30 posted on 03/22/2013 2:58:52 PM PDT by Stosh
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