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Incandescents are also hard on the eyes

Well…. it shouldn’t take accidently smashing an incandescent light bulb in your eyes to make you wonder what we’re doing with this whole light bulb “situation”.  But that’s what happened.  I guess it’s not really a situation but that’s the best I could do.  So, I picked shards of glass from my eyes and hair went inside and asked my wife what we were doing with all these light bulbs in our house.  Turns out our plan isn’t that difficult.

• 1) Go to hardware store and buy Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFL’s).
• 2) When old bulb burns out, replace with CFL’s
• 3) Hopefully you will do what I am trying to do and recycle old bulbs.

Cool stats about CFL’s

- CFL’s have a much longer lifecycle than the incandescent.

-  If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR 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.

- Save about $30 or more in electricity costs over each bulb’s lifetime.

- Produce about 75 percent less heat, so they’re safer to operate and can cut energy costs associated with home cooling.

This info was taken from http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls  so check it out.

Bad news is that incandescent bulbs end up in landfills.  What am I going to try and do to recycle them?  I can always use more salt and pepper shakers, little flower vases, maybe some artwork.  I’ll be posting the pics of my creations when the bulbs start burning.

If you were wondering, i flushed out my eyes and I’m fine.

- Jo e k