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Energy saving lightbulbsDo you use energy saving lightbulbs in your home?Yes 43% [ 7 ] No 6% [ 1 ] a combination of both 50% [ 8 ] other 0% [ 0 ] Total Votes : 16 Author Message Jesse Site Admin Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 2188 Location: West Sussex Posted: 25 Feb 2006 07:52 pm Post subject: Energy Saving Lightbulbs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics from the Ecologist magazine: Conventional lightbulb usage: 10 hours a day x 350 days = 350kWh a year cost in electricity over one year (8.8p per kWh) = £30.80 + 3 lightbulbs at 60p per piece Total: £32.60 Energy saving lightbulb usage: 10 hours a day x 350 days = 70 kWh a year cost in electricity over one year (8.8p per kWh) = £6.16 + lightbulb's initial cost of £2.65 Total: £8.81 Back to top Becki Moderator Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 1106 Location: Over here and not there. Posted: 25 Feb 2006 08:19 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wheb you read it like that the difference is frightening _________________ www.thecardbee.com Back to top Jesse Site Admin Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 2188 Location: West Sussex Posted: 25 Feb 2006 08:25 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forgot to post this link, an online energy saving supplier. The ecologist magazine said to click on the link saying Subsidised Energy Savers to buy bulbs up to 60% less for readers, not sue if they'll ask for an account/subscription number at checkout but if you're looking at buying online might be worth trying that link. http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/ Back to top Lottie Evergreen Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 740 Posted: 25 Feb 2006 08:26 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will definitely have to have a word in OH's ear about this _________________ I am at that purple age! Back to top coco331 Moderator Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Far away Posted: 25 Feb 2006 08:31 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our union were giving away hundreds of energy saving light bulbs last year....I grabbed quite a few, they've not done it again this year though _________________ THIS BE CAPTAIN JENNY FLINT This day be for talkin' likes a pirate and any land-lubber who ain't speakin' like a man who spends his life at sea be keel-hauled and forced to walk the plank! YAAAAAAAR! Back to top Lloyd Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 584 Location: Mainly Bristol but sometimes Shropshire Posted: 02 May 2006 08:10 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I use them in every room, but take them with me when I move. _________________ Back to top Cabbagepatch Perennial Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 478 Posted: 03 May 2006 12:00 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just read those statistics. They are Has anyone tried the lightbulbs direct link yet? I'll give it a try later if I have a moment. Am thinking about all the garden seeds that could be bought with the money saved Back to top nanny Evergreen Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 522 Location: deepest suffolk Posted: 03 May 2006 06:05 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wow never think about it much we have used the energy saving ones and they seem to last forever have passed the thread on to mr nanny for information and consideration _________________ pass the udder udder to my udder brudder and i'll pass the udder udder this -a -way Back to top Aqui Moderator Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 316 Location: my desk, Londonish Posted: 04 May 2006 09:47 am Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have one. But... Bathroom - weird size light fitting (although should soon be replaced with one with energy saving bulb) Kitchen - neon light (which I believe are energy saving) Living room - dimmer switch (I read you can't use them with dimmers - but we use the uplighter anyway) bedroom 1 - dimmer switch (but we use the wardrobe light/bedside lights) bedroom 2 - dimmer switch (hardly ever use it) Hallway - energy saving bulb _________________ The quiet power of growing things is truly magical Back to top Svea Seedling Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 86 Location: London Posted: 04 May 2006 12:10 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- yes, but what about your uplighter/bedside lights, aqui? i confess we have a few strategically placed normal light bulbs where energy saving just wont do. you know what i mean. the quality of light is colder with light saving, and a little dimmer. Back to top Haize Perennial Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 389 Posted: 04 May 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certain energy saving bulbs are great for the bathroom, so when your eyes are all adjusted to the dark in the night, you don't get blinded due to the dim phase when you turn them on! Most electricity suppliers will sell you normal e.s. bulbs at quite a good price. We haven't used anything but energy saving bulbs for a couple of years, but then haven't had to worry about weird light fittings and dimmers. We have a pack of 3 standard bulbs sitting around for emergencies, though, so we don't have to keep multiple backup e.s. ones. So far, we've only had e.s. bulbs blow due to dodgy light fittings (eep!). In the house we're doing up at the moment, we want some pretty downlighters to show off our beautiful sink and breakfast bar so we're currently torn between LED ones and cold cathode bulbs. The LEDs consume less power and break less often, but I think the cold cathode bulbs give a better spread of light, and are quite good anyway (better than the standard ones by miles!). I guess we'll just live without dimmer switches there as well. The only downside we've experienced with e.s. bulbs is that my OH's calculator, which is solar powered only, won't work under them: apparently it's the "wasteful" frequencies it works off! This gives me one other thought - does that mean non-e.s. bulbs are better for people with S.A.D. in the winter?! _________________ Status of our house: No heating, no bathroom, no kitchen. Washing machine, fridge, and boiler sitting around in boxes. No door on room with toilet! http://www.manicfish.com/myblog.php?bbn=haize Back to top chickens1968 Moderator Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Gloucestershire Posted: 04 May 2006 01:40 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You mean I would have to get rid of my remote control dimmer switches..... Never!!!!! lol I am saving my energy by using them! _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/chickens1968/ Back to top Haize Perennial Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 389 Posted: 04 May 2006 04:06 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: I am saving my energy by using them! That's a good point, I wonder how many people in the world actually do think that?! I guess if you don't know anything about electrics, it's a reasonable assumption. Eeek! _________________ Status of our house: No heating, no bathroom, no kitchen. Washing machine, fridge, and boiler sitting around in boxes. No door on room with toilet! http://www.manicfish.com/myblog.php?bbn=haize Back to top |