A Quick Shop Light Substitute
We have a cat, a sweet old cat. She came with my wife into our marriage. For various reasons (allergies, dog vs. cat aggression, and nasty things
some old cats do especially when un attended) she is relegated to the basement. The dark, dirty, unfinished basement. So naturally, we have compassion on the cat and leave some lights on for her.
Until recently these have been two 80 watt fluorescent shop lights that we left on all of the time and one more that was left on about half the time. At my current electrical rates that costs $203 a year!
The Solution: replace the shop lights with six 20 watt compact fluorescent bulbs in bare bulb fixtures with aluminum foil reflectors. The vertical orientation of the bulbs and the reflectivity of the aluminum foil do a better job of distributing the light than the shop light fixtures do.
The Result: Perceived light is about the same. Projected savings is over $110 a year! That’s 10% of our 2009 electricity bill!
I should have done this a long time ago.
Dan Bossenbroek
January 17, 2010
Tags: Energy Conservation, Energy Efficient Posted in: Energy Conservation, Lighting
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Super post, Need to mark it on Digg
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