What are the benefits of CFLs?
CFLs have three huge benefits over incandescent. The first is power savings. With a CFL, you will use about 75% less electricity to get the same about of light compared to an incandescent bulb. The second benefit is that CFLs last up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs. This savings adds up very quickly, saving you $30 or more for each bulb you replace over the life of the bulb. And third, CFLs are also environmentally friendly. Using just one CFL will reduce the amount of CO2 going into the air by almost 700 lbs over the lifetime of the bulb. According to the government’s EnergyStar website “If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an EnergyStar qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.” These are big numbers and with a payback period of 4 months, it doesn’t make sense not to start usi
