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To: rlmorel

Those are good graphics. Regarding the assumptions about the “savings” from CFL bulbs: 1)Incandescent bulbs are about 25% (not 10%) as “efficient” (with respect to emitting visible light) as CFLs; and, 2) “Savings” only accrue during non-heating season — when space heating is required, incandescent bulbs are 100% efficient.

IOW, the benefits are even smaller than the diagrams show.


78 posted on 04/29/2014 10:24:09 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Thanks...that info makes the point even better. (I can’t remember where I got that 10% number from, but it could have been some government report where they were trying to make CFLs sound even better...)


79 posted on 04/29/2014 12:34:33 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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