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Originally Posted by Sly
I replaced every lightbulb in my house with these bad boys: GE LED BR30 Indoor Floodlight Bulb (2 pk.) - Energy Star Certified - - Amazon.com
You could buy 250 million of these suckers for $2.5B.
So here's what you do. You break out the big bad calculator and you figure out how many regular lightbulbs you can replace in the country. Then you figure out how much energy those mean little pricks suck. Then you replace all of those pricks with these nice guys and you have your lightbulb energy use down to 15-20% of what it originally was!
Now that's impact!
"First World" countries can't "take care" of "Third World" countries until we take care of ourselves. Call it insensitive, mean, whatever you want, but when the top 20 energy sucking countries in the world are all major powers, there is absolutely no reason to be worrying about some sub-Saharan country that is barely a blip on the energy map.
Focus on the big targets for a real, actual impact. Anyone that TRULY appreciates the environment should be pissed off about these half measures and push for changes that actually make a difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ty_consumption
I see no "Third World" countries.
Change a lightbulb. |
I did the same thing. Then I bought $200 worth and gave them to people with limited budgets. I then did $800 worth of bulbs in all my apartment buildings. That is over 300 light bulbs system wide. The savings are cool % wise but pretty small as electricity is super cheap. We were already doing CFL so it was 14w to 9w. Saving around $100/month on that and ours burn 24/7.
Reduced water usage 20% and I think that had a bigger impact on our energy usage then the bulbs. Low flow shower heads (Niagra 2 GPM), low water use flappers and 1.5 GPM aerators.
All the business people i talk to don't see electricity as their big number. CFL has been around a while now so most commercial systems use them. The easy savings have seen already.