What are Energy-Efficient Bulbs?
One of the easiest things most people can do to reduce the amount of energy they use is to replace standard or incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient bulbs. Generally, when people refer to lights that are energy efficient, they mean compact fluorescent lights or CFLs. Replacing standard bulbs in a home with CFLs reduces power use to light a home by approximately 75%. This saves money, and if it were adopted on a wide scale by lots of people, it could greatly reduce environmental debt. A quick explanation of CFL or energy light bulbs is that they provide more light at a lower wattage. A 25-watt CFL will provide about the same amount of light as a 100-watt incandescent bulb. Most packages of CFLs will offer useful conversions charts so that people can determine which CFL wattages will adequately replace incandescent lights. Switching to energy-efficient bulbs would seem so easy, and yet there are many people who haven’t stopped buying incandescent lights. One reason for this is t
