CF bulb prices are plummeting. 3 for $10 at home depot depending on the wattage. I actually just got five of them through a Grocery Outlet (kind of a bent-can salvage goods store) for 80 cents a piece, but that's unusual. they were about $15 each or more before the calif. energy crisis, and last a long time. a long time ago I cracked the base of one and it still works. couldn't say that for fragile incandescents. Mark
At 12:19 AM 1/29/2003 -0600, you wrote: >David Crab wrote: > > Now.. this is not to say that all the money spent into conservation isn't > > working.. <i certainly would like > > my state to have the nice incentives for solar and alternative power that > > Calif has.>.. Right now, I pay > > 3.5 cents per kWHr.. so it takes a loooong time to make the extra money > back > > from Compact Flourescents. > > Your average Joe isn't going to do it here. They will just spend the > > 40cents for a incandescent bulb vs 8 dollars for a CF light. To me.. it is > > worth it for the piece of mind that there isnt some diesel plant spewing > > less junk for my lights. > > > > I think the average person knows money.. and *would* spend money to convert > > lights 'permanently' to flourescents, if it would mean they got a tax > break. > > Less power needs = less power plants which is good for us all. > > >You pay 3.5 cents per kWh ?? I pay 7.09 cents per kWh >meanly coal some nuclear, hydro and wind. > >Using your figures I'd make nearly 100 percent return >(long term) on my investment or rather save nearly $20 >using a Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb -- taxes not included. > > For example -- > >100 Watt/hour incandescent bulb with a estimated 1000 hour life expectancy. >$0.40 bulb @ 1000 hours x 10 bulbs = $4.00 worth of incandescent bulbs for >10,000 hours. >100 Watts/hour x 10,000 hours divide by 1000 Watts/kW = 1000 kW x 3.5 >cents/kW = $35 of electricity. >$4.00 + $35 = $39 > >33 Watt/hour CFL bulb providing equivalent light of a 100 Watt >incandescent bulb >$8.00 CFL bulb with a 10,000 hour life expectancy. >33 Wh x 10,000 hours divide by 1000 W/kW = 330 kW x 3.5 cents = $11.55 of >electricity. >$8.00 + $11.55 = $19.55 > >Locally I could buy 2 CFL bulbs for $8.00 >emitting 60 Watts of light each but only using 15 W each >of electricity. >_______________________________________ > >Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >ADVERTISEMENT ><http://rd.yahoo.com/M=244396.2846622.4218523.2848452/D=egroupweb/S=1705083269:HM/A=1414307/R=0/*https://www.clearcredit.com/registration/default.asp?n=b&cpID=c01888p1379&ckID=gen14628>a06f70.jpg >a071f1.jpg > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: ><http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: ><http://archive.nnytech.net/>http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the ><http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
