Earth day away to grow your bankroll and be friendly to the enviroment!

[Cardcounter]

There are these spiral light bulbs that use only 25% of the electricty of condescent light bulbs each bulb replaced saves about $35 in electricty and if you put the savings toward your blackjack bankroll assuming you replace just 8 light bulbs you could ad $280 to your bankroll as well as cut 800 pounds of CO'2 from going in the atmosphere!

 

[dacium]

Yeah everyone knows about these (or should). But how much do you save anyway?

A 100w bulb would be replaced with a 25w fluro that you are talking about.

I dont know what you pay for power but I pay about 10cents for a kilowatt hour. If a light globe is on for 4 hours per night that is 400w or 100w or about 2.5cents or 1cent per day or about $3 per year per bulb.

 

[ChefJJ]

Even if you saved only a few bucks, it's still saving electricity...that's not too bad now is it?

 

[Cardcounter]

You save more than you think!

These fluorsent bulbs last for about 8,000-10,000 hours compared to 1,000 hours for a regular bulb. Taking the low end of the spectrum for just one light bulb lasting 8,000*100=800,000 watts or 800 kilo watt hours. Costing you $80. If you used the same Fluorsent light bulb you would use
8,000*25=200,000 or 200 kilo watts hours of elecrity costing you only $20 in electricty, saving you $60 per light bulb. In california a kilowatt hour cost 20 cents so my savings are twice as much as that. Besides that is only one light bulb when you consider the average american home can have between 50-100 light sprockets the savings really add up. Considering these light bulbs last for 5 years or more on average the per day savings would only average about 3 cents a day per bulb. But look at it like this at least you won't have to keep changing your light bulbs. Not to mention you will have less of an enviromental impact personally and that is satisfiying.

 

[Mimosine]

These fluorsent bulbs last for about 8,000-10,000 hours compared to 1,000 hours for a regular bulb. Taking the low end of the spectrum for just one light bulb lasting 8,000*100=800,000 watts or 800 kilo watt hours. Costing you $80. If you used the same Fluorsent light bulb you would use
8,000*25=200,000 or 200 kilo watts hours of elecrity costing you only $20 in electricty, saving you $60 per light bulb. In california a kilowatt hour cost 20 cents so my savings are twice as much as that. Besides that is only one light bulb when you consider the average american home can have between 50-100 light sprockets the savings really add up. Considering these light bulbs last for 5 years or more on average the per day savings would only average about 3 cents a day per bulb. But look at it like this at least you won't have to keep changing your light bulbs. Not to mention you will have less of an enviromental impact personally and that is satisfiying.

in san diego last year they had these rebate coupons for compact fluorescent bulbs, so when i moved into my new apt, i bought 3 times the number i needed (maybe someday i won't live in a studio). i ended up getting them for about $0.50 a piece! if i turn on every light in my house right now, i use somewhere around 200 watts. with a perfectly useable amount of light totalling 66 watts.

 

[Automatic Monkey]

Being I don't celebrate Lenin's birthday I disregard "Earth Day".

Compact fluorescents have their place, I guess. I use one in my lab for curing UV-curing adhesive. Just an ordinary CF bulb from the store hardens it in less than a minute. So there must be an enormous amount of UV coming from them.

We're only a few years away from solid state LED lighting available economically, so I'd guess when everyone has bought their CF bulbs, the LED's will be ready and the CF's will be declared an environmental and safety hazard and you'll have to pay to dispose of them.

 

[ChefJJ]

Being I don't celebrate Lenin's birthday I disregard "Earth Day".

Compact fluorescents have their place, I guess. I use one in my lab for curing UV-curing adhesive. Just an ordinary CF bulb from the store hardens it in less than a minute. So there must be an enormous amount of UV coming from them.

We're only a few years away from solid state LED lighting available economically, so I'd guess when everyone has bought their CF bulbs, the LED's will be ready and the CF's will be declared an environmental and safety hazard and you'll have to pay to dispose of them.

???What does Lenin have to do with Earth Day???

 

[person1125]

the problem i have encountered with the spiral light blubs is we have ceiling fans with 4 sockets - if I put 4 of them in there it strobes and doesn't work, I have to have 1 'normal' light bulb and then 3 of the CF's.

 

[Automatic Monkey]

???What does Lenin have to do with Earth Day???

The people who created the modern Earth Day were Communists. The idea was to get us into celebrating Lenin without telling us what it was. The original Earth Day was Feb. 29.

 

[zengrifter]

There are these spiral light bulbs that use only 25% of the electricty of condescent light bulbs each bulb replaced saves about $35 in electricty and if you put the savings toward your blackjack bankroll assuming you replace just 8 light bulbs you could ad $280 to your bankroll as well as cut 800 pounds of CO'2 from going in the atmosphere!

Sounds like an MLM play - ad more to your BR by selling the miracle bulbs! zg

 

[ChefJJ]

The people who created the modern Earth Day were Communists. The idea was to get us into celebrating Lenin without telling us what it was. The original Earth Day was Feb. 29.

LOL! Fair enough.

Hell, I've been called a communist at a public meeting at my last job! I'm definitely not, but what better way to insult someone, right? :laugh:

The sad part is that some people would actually relate recycling or planting a tree or something like that with one day. What about the other 364?

 

[Mimosine]

The sad part is that some people would actually relate recycling or planting a tree or something like that with one day. What about the other 364?

i'm with you commissarJJ!

 

[ScottH]

The sad part is that some people would actually relate recycling or planting a tree or something like that with one day. What about the other 364?

The other 364 are designated as national polluting days! :laugh:

 

[ChefJJ]

The other 364 are designated as national polluting days! :laugh:

Basically...it's human nature. :grin:

We all catch on to relationships between us and Earth's resources--it's just that some take a lot longer to figure it out!

 

[Automatic Monkey]

The sad part is that some people would actually relate recycling or planting a tree or something like that with one day. What about the other 364?

Lumber workers and landscapers plant many trees every day. And the most successful form of recycling ever in the US is the automobile junkyard.

All 3 of these professions are considered villains by the environmentalists.

 

[ChefJJ]

Lumber workers and landscapers plant many trees every day. And the most successful form of recycling ever in the US is the automobile junkyard.

All 3 of these professions are considered villains by the environmentalists.

Very true...you've always gotta be careful of anyone who is on the extreme end of anything. I'm just finishing up a book about the US natural history...and the ecologist author makes a good point about it being a misconception that people who are too extreme in environmentalism can create situations that are just as bad for the Earth.

Oh well, I still think that there's nothing wrong with trying to reduce the amount of fuel and stuff that we use. It's sad that this issue is now "sexy" in the public eye.

Landscapers as villans?!? Well, maybe the ones that try to plant grass in the desert

 

[SilentBob420BMFJ]

as well as cut 800 pounds of CO'2 from going in the atmosphere!

i hate hippy bullshit..

 

[ChefJJ]

i hate hippy bullshit..

Speaking of which, how about using cow **** for methane fu.... :laugh: