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By Larry West, About.com Guide to Environmental Issues since 2005

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Change a Light Bulb and Change the World

Wednesday September 26, 2007
Sometimes the simple things can make a big difference. Did you know that replacing a few standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs could cut your use of energy, lower your electric bill, and significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that enter the atmosphere each year and contribute to global warming? Learn how switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs in just a few of the lamps and light fixtures in your home or office can make the world a little brighter.

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November 3, 2006 at 12:28 pm
(1) albert hall says:

Fuel prices have always been too cheap so they get wasted just like any “throw-away’ product.

Fossil fuels will become increasing scare or more expensive to recover and process so prices will rise anyway and pehaps to the point where they cannot be afforded long before they are completely exhausted.

In the meanwhile every effort should be made to make better use of the way fossil fuels are used now they while at the same time seriously exploring alternatives.

But the first thing that must be done is for politicians and government using scarcity as a weapon to put extra tax burdens on people and business without stating that thos extra taxes will be used for strictly for resource research .

Most of the announcements from the British Government and the two other political parties has either been for increases in taxation or political jousting. Absolutely nothing about plans to solve the problem.

November 7, 2006 at 12:52 am
(2) Dr. J. Gokhale says:

We have used them now for well over a decade, and it saves not only energy and cost of electricity but also the headache of replacing bulbs frequently – and they are easier to install than normal tube lights, and so on. For reading, I am uncertain about their being good enough except as table lamps or other configuration focused for the purpose. Everything else, they are really the way to go until somthing even better turns up.

November 14, 2006 at 9:24 pm
(3) yanira selena teck says:

ther are not a lot of picture of use of energy

January 28, 2007 at 4:57 am
(4) East Power Development Limited says:

East Power Development Limited are professional manufacturers of high quality Energy Saving Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL,LED replacement light bulbs,halogen lamps,in China.

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